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The LABOR OF LOVE series stands for the small businesses and designers who are still creating and constructing products in America instead of opting for oversees manufacturing like many competitors. The video above features Lauren Junker, creator of Totally Tubular Designs, who gets her kicks from foraging through trash to… Read the rest
Since 2002, EcoFlight has flown concerned people above forests, mountains and wetlands to share a unique perspective of the way nature interacts with harmful industries. The aerial view allows people to form a direct connection to what is happening and to better understand the dramatic effect of man interrupting nature.… Read the rest
Colleen Flanigan uses multimedia performance art to educate people of the issues facing our environment. She hopes through artistic expression and community involvement she can spark positive action. She says, “Without creativity, we cannot solve any of the problems of the world.” The video above showcases her project at Oregon… Read the rest
Potholes are nasty. Whether walking, running, biking or… driving, they’re abrupt bumps waiting to happen. That’s why we’re so happy to show off the artwork of Juliana Santacruz Herrera, who noticed an abundance of potholes in Paris and decided to do something about them.
Instead of complaining to the city,… Read the rest
When surfer Kevin Cunningham saw trash and debris washing up on shore, he took it. And he put it–plastic bags, bottles and glass–into the surfboards he crafts by hand.
Cunningham began Spirare Surfboards as a way to explore “innovative surfboard design using alternative materials and methods to make highly functional… Read the rest
This Bay Area artist, Reuben Margolin, creates art that mimics nature and, in some cases (like that of the caterpillar), makes nature’s mechanisms work–take this with a grain of salt–better… because he can escape nature’s boundaries. As he explains in the above video, the caterpillar makes somewhat “mechanical” movements as… Read the rest
If you consider yourself a “green” guy or grrrl in most everything you do, from the car you drive (or don’t drive) to the food you eat, then you probably consider the environmental aspects of the art you buy as well, right? If you do, good for you. If not,… Read the rest
A Houston designer and artist recently turned the barren white landscape of the Lawndale Art Center into a green masterpiece. The artist, Ned Dodington, did so by hanging 30 pods of grass (Fescue and Ryegrass) in the gallery room. But the most interesting part of this “exhibit” is Dodington’s idea… Read the rest
A great ad from Milwaukee River Keeper that incorporates a “Banksy-esque” street graffiti style.
Follow me on Twitter @lostcascadia… Read the rest
Sure, “green” automobiles are a hot topic–but I think people had similar concerns before cars were even around…
Follow Joe Mohr’s cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons… Read the rest
