Below are some general tips.

Transport

• Walk, ride and use public transport and drive less. This is the most important change you can make.
• Car pool or offset your car's carbon emissions using CO₂ offset schemes.
• Conserve fuel & drive economically: tune your car, drive more slowly, and avoid using your air-conditioner, keep your tyres inflated and dump that heavy junk rolling around in the back.
• Reduce your air travel, or if you have to fly, consider buying carbon offsets to compensate for the emissions caused by your flight.

Energy

• Minimise energy consumption by making use of natural light and replace light globes with longer lasting and more energy-efficient compact fluorescents. Turn lights off when not being used.
• Turn off electronic equipment when you're not using them including computers and peripherals. Equipment on standby consumes 10 to 60% of normal energy use.
• Buy Green Power or switch to renewable energy sources. Do a greenhouse audit.

Water

• When buying new equipment check its energy and water rating. Buy as efficient a product as you can afford.
• Save it!

Waste 

• Ask yourself do I need this? Does it require ongoing resources? Is it the most efficient available? Can it be recycled at the end of its life? Do I really need this?
• Can I borrow it? Can I share it? Can I rent/lease it? Can I buy it second hand?
• If you can’t do without, buy from environmentally conscious and innovative companies, buy products that last a lifetime, buy recycled, buy local and buy less.
• Save trees by freeing yourself from junk mail and purchasing paper products that are unbleached and/or have a high recycled content.
• Only print emails and other documents if you really need a hard copy. Use the blank side of unwanted printouts for note taking.
• Use rechargeable batteries and recycle mobile phones and their batteries, paper, glass, plastics, toner and printer cartridges.
• Use specialist recyclers of technical wastes where available.
• Reuse and recycle packing materials.
• Look for products that have less packaging and don't use "throw-away" products like paper plates and plastic cups.

Chemicals

• Use paints, varnishes and glues that are water-based or have low Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC) levels.
• Choose biodegradable cleaning products and green clean.
• Properly dispose any hazardous, unused, and/or out-of-date chemicals.

Plastic bottled water

Here is an infographic we've recently designed at Econnect Design about the issues of plastic bottled water. It explains the main problems and also shows existing practical solutions. Millions of tonnes of waste, energy and pollution would be avoided if the alternatives shown were introduced on a large scale. We hope you find it interesting, if so then please share and give a like!

Welcome!

"Eco- conscious project" 

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Mission

It commitment to promote the power of ideas and to accelerate the shift to greener lifestyles.

In this page:

New inspirations are brought up from sharing news and pics
Opportunity to spread your favorite eco ideas
Encourage people to good reflexes

Stuart Haygarth

Stuart Haygarth, British lighting designer found inspiration in ordinary objects and waste material. Transforming their original purpose, he gives them new function to create wonderful and unique design chandeliers that are sculptural, eclectic and provoking. Stuart Haygarth has already become the ambassador of eco-art. Can`t wait to see his new art-piece!

“Tide” – 2004 Made of man made waste, primarily made of plastic.

Drop, 1800 plastic bottles, 2007.

According to British designer Stuart Haygarth, one man's trash is another man's treasure. He collects thousands of discarded objects, mainly plastic items, and creates stunning chandeliers out of the found materials. Drop (shown above) is a lighting structure made from the bases of 1800 plastic water bottles. The pieces were tumbled in a cement mixer to give the plastic a frosted glass effect.

His lighting designs are as thought-provoking as they are beautiful. Tide (shown below) is constructed with plastic debris and other manmade materials washed ashore along the Kent coastline. Haygarth shaped the collected items into a moon-like structure, since the moon creates tides that wash up the discarded objects onto the shore.

http://www.stuarthaygarth.com/

(POP)culture by Garth Britzman

This temporary installation used recycled soda bottles as a canopy under which a small park is created. An intriguing environment is created where one can explore the surface qualities of the bottles at eye level. Additionally, this project sought to stimulate creative alternatives for recycling and reusing materials.

One designer in the United States, the word “recycle” took on a whole new meaning as he used hundreds of used clear plastic soda bottles to create a colorful canopy in front of his home.

Garth Britzman, a native of Nebraska, started to thinking outside the box and decided to repurpose old plastic soda bottles in a creative way. He strung all the plastic bottles together to create a canopy. And to add a more decorative touch to his eco-friendly design, known as (POP)culture, he filled the bottom of the bottles with a beautiful array of yellows, blues, and greens. And because the bottom of the plastic bottles looks like flowers, it looks as though the canopy top is made of hundreds of colorful flowers. This is definitely a very creative way of keeping your car shaded from the summer heat!

Garth Britzman on Behance

Recycle PET Bottles

Extract from noquedanblogs.com

Rain Drops system

The RainDrops system allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rain water. The repurposing of these plastic bottles will also give value to many bottles that are otherwise headed for landfills.

A large benefit to using plastic bottles as a water collection system is that it fits in nicely with the process called SODIS, which uses a combination of the suns UV rays and heat to remove pathogenic microorganisms that cause disease. This process is spreading across many developing countries due to its effectiveness and low cost.

Extract from Yanko Design

Sarah Turner

1 Bottle takes 450 years to decompose.
1 Bottle takes 5 times it's volume in water just to manufacture.*

Sarah Turner, has teamed up with Soda Stream to create this amazing plastic bottle sphere, using 562 recycled plastic bottles.


Sodastream’s campaign aims to reduce the amount of plastic bottles people buy, therefore reducing the amount that end up getting thrown away.


British supermodel Erin O’Connor holds the sphere symbolically on her shoulders, recreating the iconic pose of Greek God Atlas, highlighting the burden of the world's plastic bottle waste.

Let's hope this campaign touches on at least the fashionista's of the world, demonstrating that it's not so 'cool' to sip from a tiny plastic bottle, every time you need to quench that little thirst.

British supermodel Erin O’Connor

 * (http://www.goecofriendly.org) 

Olivia Kaufman-Rovira

Olivia Kaufman-Rovira created this stunning installation in the Carriage House during her summer residency. It’s made of discarded plastic water bottles, wheat grass and a complex pvc watering system she built herself. Olivia spent the first two weeks of her residency literally watching the grass grow! Some may see her huge chandeliers as reminders of our wasteful ways and our negative impact on the environment–but Olivia has a more optimistic vision. She sees her work as evidence that humans can find solutions to any problem–beautiful solutions–and make them pretty amazing too. Visit her web site to learn more about her.

Plastic hives