Ed co-founded Seed homes, which are built quickly and cheaply from eco-friendly materials.
Ohyo's bottle is made from eco-friendly materials and can be folded up to fit in a pocket or a purse.
It's the coffee drinkers' version of the collapsible dog bowl, and it's expected to sell for $18 and be made from eco-friendly materials.
Her elegant and primitive-looking pieces are often inspired by indigenous art, and are made with eco-friendly materials like unpolished quartz, tourmaline and even slivers of fossilized woolly mammoth bone.
At Design Within Reach, she liked the "winter-wear feel" of the Ernest pouf and the way the designer "took a typical small knit pattern, enlarged it and modernized it through the use of eco-friendly materials".
She and her husband, Arthur Bence, moved to the Solaire when it opened in 2003 precisely because it had a LEED gold rating and had been built with eco-friendly materials, she said.
You should also investigate Lega-Lega (award-winning designers from Osijek) (lega-lega.com) and Brokula& Z(brokulaz.com) – both these Croatian designers use eco-friendly materials for their snappy T-shirts, notebooks and bags.
The hosts of the next world expo, which will be in Milan in 2015, hope to avoid the same fate by "organizing a totally sustainable event and building the country pavilions with eco-friendly materials which, if necessary, can be easily dismantled at the end," said Giuseppe Sala, chief executive of Expo 2015, which is developing the event.
Doug Mooney, the owner of Cornerstone of Larchmont, a build-and-design company with more than 30 employees, said he strives to incorporate his conservationist's beliefs into his company's mission, primarily by using a new range of eco-friendly materials, salvaging and reusing old supplies and refusing jobs that include new development.
The β-FeSi2/Si semiconducting nanocomposite is a promising thermoelectric system with eco-friendly materials.
