Let the work begin!
AMSTERDAM – Eco building expert Search B.V. has finished the report on how to make cafe Waldorf eco friendlier. The money that was raised at the first Strawberries & Cream will be spent well! Search suggests, amongst other things, to:
Konichiwa Treemagotchi!
AMSTERDAM – Remember the early nineties Japanese virtual pet for kids, the Tamagotchi? Well, a clever Dutchman has used a similar principle to invent a new way of cleaning up our environment. The Dutch version is called Treemagotchi and is for adults! You need to ‘feed’ your tree with
It’s haute couture and eco, darling!
LONDON – The crème de la crème of Europe’s eco fashion designers will be at the Estethica exhibition this February in London. Estethica is part of London Fashion Week and puts the spotlight on fair trade and eco fashion. We had a sneak peek…
Bas Kosters dolls
Bas Koster recycles for Amsterdam Fashion Week
AMSTERDAM – It’s just days till the opening of Amsterdam International Fashion Week and one opening highlight is going to be Bas Kosters’ “Heineken Beat Collection”. The show will feature clothes made using Heineken products and merchandise – true recycling in the name of fashion! We caught up with Bas in Amsterdam to find out exactly how environmentally aware he is. Here’s our interview with him in this week’s “EXCUSE ME?”.
Photo by: Anneke James
Happy birthday plastic!
AMSTERDAM – Love it or loathe it: “polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride” (a.k.a ‘plastic’) is a big part of people’s lives and it’s now one hundred years old. The man behind the invention is Belgian chemist Leo ‘the Doc’ Baekeland.
The Doc teamed up with famous designers like Raymond Loewy to use plastic in now iconic industrial designs like the
Make your own eco-commercial
AMSTERDAM - Most tv-commercials about the environment are quite dramatic with chain saws eating up a tropical tree and a little monkey at the top crying for help. Through YouTube and other online platforms, everyone can make their own eco message.
Photo by Ross Domoney
Dubai sucks!
LONDON – Visitors to Dubai’s five star Palazzo Versace hotel will soon be able to cool off on the world’s first refrigerated beach. No, this is not a joke. It seems in Dubai, their approach to global warming is to speed it up.
The owner of the hotel, Soheil Abedian, says: “This is the kind of luxury top people want.”
Pharrell rocks organic threads
NEW YORK – Together with his Japanese friend, Nigo, Pharrell has just become one of the owners of Bionic Yarn. Bionic Yarn develops eco friendly fabrics made out of recycled plastic bottles. Pharrell started his ‘fashion career’ with two clothing lines: “Billionaire Boy’s Club” and “Ice Cream”.
Photo by: Suzanne Blanchard
Piles of questions after exclusive screening of FUEL
About 60 people brushed off the rain and cold to attend Sunday night’s exclusive screening of FUEL in Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam.
Things got off to a promising start after the director Josh Tickell informed us that FUEL had just been shortlisted for an Oscar!
