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Greenhouse by Joost Pops Up in Melbourne

March 7, 2012 – 3:39 pm | No Comment
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Greenhouse by Joost is clearly a project we love, having featured it in a few different ways in the past. But when this brilliant, sustainable, waste-free restaurant popped-up at the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, …

Eat Your Green!

December 6, 2011 – 12:55 pm | 2 Comments
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Thirteen years ago, Jim Denevan had an idea. The Santa Cruz-based artist and chef wanted to host a dinner that would bring together discriminating diners and the farmers who grow their food. He wanted to …

Bamboo Brilliance: Tang Palace, China

December 1, 2011 – 10:26 am | One Comment
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China is a place where tradition meets modernity and Tang Palace in Hangzhou is no exception. Sweeping, woven nets of bamboo are fashioned into a curved, wave-like ceiling, while backlit bamboo screens, bamboo sheets, and …

Para Mí y Para Ti: Contigo

November 10, 2011 – 4:40 pm | No Comment

“Connection, communication, collaboration, and conviviality.” These are words that sound more like they were spoken at your latest staff meeting, rather than describing a restaurant. But it is how the minds behind San Francisco’s Contigo …

Fresh Veg? It’s in the Bag!

October 24, 2011 – 2:57 pm | No Comment

Nobody likes mushy mushrooms, and everybody likes helping the planet (right?). Well Bruno Super Deluxe, an up-and-coming design company based in Boston, lets you save the world and keep your veggies fresh at the same …

Turn Out the Lights! Fridgeezoo

October 13, 2011 – 6:54 pm | No Comment

We all need helpful little reminders sometimes, especially when it comes to being green. Can those reminders be annoying? Yeah, sometimes – we won’t deny it – but they don’t have to be. Sometimes, in …

Cultivating a Coffee Culture: Papa Palheta

September 26, 2011 – 11:55 am | No Comment

Located in an off-the-beaten-path sort of spot in Singapore, Papa Palheta specialty coffee boutique is churning out quality brew to an increasingly coffee conscious crowd. Here, sustainable beans sourced from around the world are roasted …

Ristretto, Recycled: Slow Poke Espresso

September 21, 2011 – 9:13 am | 3 Comments
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Picture this: a cozy café that’s so inviting you’ll want to linger over your morning cuppa well into afternoon tea. Now imagine this space is completely and utterly sustainable. Enter Slow Poke Espresso.
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Waste Not, Want Not

August 29, 2011 – 10:43 am | 3 Comments

It’s always kind of sad to see a bright red cluster of vine-ripe tomatoes suffocating inside a flimsy plastic bag. Or so thinks Ben Huttly, an enterprising young Brit. Drawing on his design skills (he’s …

Green Glass: Full Circle Wine

July 19, 2011 – 12:09 pm | No Comment

So maybe you’re a sucker for design and you just can’t get over the aesthetic flaw of wine in plastic bottles, or perhaps you adhere to the school of thought that believes plastic tampers with …