May 2012
5 posts
#11 Vue de Monde: 2012 Sustainability Advancement...
The recent 2012 Interior Design Awards saw Melbourne restaurant Vue de Monde awarded the 2012 Sustainbility Advancement Award.
Their recently relocated and recipient of this award, site in Melbourne incorporates a vast range of sustainable features that deal with energy, water, materiality and products. Of note is the implementations of sustainable strategies for food waste and...
#10 What is ISO 14001?
In researching and writing these posts I’ve come across the term ‘ISO 14001’ a number of times when talking about sustainable products and initiatives. It was something I really wasn’t familiar with and while I assumed it was good I wasn’t actually sure what it was. So I turned to google and this is what I found.
Essentialy ISO 14000 is...
#9 U.R Carbon Neutral™ Table System
I’ve posted about a number of products already but this last one really caught my eye and I just couldn’t pass it up. U.R Carbon Neutral is a table system by Sydney based product designers Thinking Ergonomics.
It is a highly flexbile and versatile ‘family’ of table products for use in any commercial environment. It has been designed for disassembly, ready...
#8 Creation Clic Flooring
Creation Clic is a vinyl flooring system by Australian flooring supplier Gerflor. It is a loose lay vinyl plan system that incorporates the aesthetic of a timber finish with the performance and ESD properties of vinyl. It’s unique vertical clicking system makes it quick an simple to install and eliminates the need for adhesives. The range comes in 12 different wood finishes from rustic to...
April 2012
4 posts
#7 Soft-Architecture: Cradle to Cradle Lighting...
Soft-Architecutre is low environmental impact lighting system developed by Flos. It is created using an innovative system of eco-compatible material with cradle to cradle certification that is strong, light-weight, flexible and fire resistant, used in conjunction with energy efficient lighting. It is a highly environmental conscious product that can be used in any project type...
#6 Eco-Leaf
The Eco-leaf is an innovative new sun shade concept that doubles as a light source at night. This uniqe window treatment uses integrated solar cells that charge up during the day, while blocking out harsh sunlight, to emit an ambient solar generated light once night falls. It features a small display that shows you the current room temperature.
This is such an intelligent design. It’s...
#5 RACUS® Ceiling System
I stumbled across this product the other day while researching for our current ESD report and thought it was worth blogging about.
These award winning ceiling tiles, developed by a company called Datum Phase Change are apart of the energy efficient range of RACUS tiles. RACUS meaning ‘reducing air conditioning units and systems’.
The secret behind the easy to install tiles is the...
#4 Joot's Greenhouse - Off grid, recycled and...
At the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival this year, the star of the show was easily Joot Bakker’s Greenhouse.
Sitting alongside the Yarra River, it is the ‘eco-entrepreneurs’ second ‘living, breathing and waste free restaurant in the city’. Bakker says of his sustainable initiative “Our message is that everything matters. Everything is related to something else, which is ultimately...
March 2012
6 posts
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The ecospecifier website is a free database of over 6000 sustainable and eco conscious products, materials, technologies and resources. It is the leading global source of sustainable development & life-cycle assessed green product information. The ecospecifier sites as a whole generate over 2, 000,000 million visits annually.
”The ecospecifier website is not just a free database but...
The FSC seeks to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world’s forests.
This means ensuring that the harvest of natural products does not harm the forests biodiversity, productivity or ecologicalprocesses. It provides incentives to preserve the forest resources and adhere to long term management plans. And operates in a way that...
GECA (Good Environmental Choice Australia) is an independent, not for profit organization that developed and put into effect the Environmental Choice Australia Ecolabelling Program. This internationally recognized labeling program aims to help consumers choose products and services that are better for the environment and more ecologically responsible.
On the organizations site they state: The...
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#1 Surry Hills Community Center
I’ve got to admit, the prospect of writing about environmentally sustainable design at first could not have been less appealing to me. In the past, ‘eco’ style projects that I have come across have always stuck me as very overly modern, generic and really just a bit bland. Of course they might have been innovative and clever but ultimately if it’s not aesthetically...
