“The Solar Forest concept from Neville Mars is a crafty design solution for charging electric vehicles and generating solar energy in previously underused parking lots. Instead of having parking lots filling the urban landscape, the Solar Forest offers shade, free EVcharging, solar energy generation while simultaneously greatly improving the appearance of the urban landscape.”

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‘I’m right-you’re right’. Anti-war poster

Artist: Rudolf Altrichter
Czechoslovakia

100% Recycled plastic furniture, rotomoulded.

“Plastic waste obtained from electronic devices, toys, drink trays, stadium seats, etc, etc. is used in very few end products due to the complexity of separating the various categories, leading only to generate poorly esthetic products. The Rotomoulded technique, with its beauty and simplicity, allows this to take over, transforming the result in a different, identifiable real object. What you get are beautiful, durable and new conceptually pieces.

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Polish designer Pawel Grunert has created the SIE43 Chair.

“Produced for the ‘Eco Trans Pop’ exhibition of ecological design at the Colombari Gallery in Milan, Italy. The chair is made from PET bottles with a stainless steel frame. The bottles can be easily changed if they show signs of damage. The seat is in the form of a flower. The rhythm of hundreds of PET bottles creates an organic structure. An ordinary form is transformed into an extraordinary form, standard form into a unique one.”

Visit: Pawel Grunert’s website
Via Contemporist

This remarkable image of mysterious Moai is taken by JIM RICHARDSON. There’re many great shots at his official website (www.jimrichardsonphotography.com).

The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

<via official site> <日本語はこちら>

 
Photo by Hikaru

UdomXai, Laos.

Photo by Hikaru

A few days ago in Dharamsala. H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama visited TCV (Tibetan Children’s Village).

Photo by Hikaru

Child monks standing at the door of Wat Phra Sing, Chiang Mai City.

T?ne Mahuta（タネ・マフタ）は「森の神」の意味を持っているニュージーランドにある神聖なカウリの木。先住民であるマオリの神話では森に生きる者はすべてタネ・マフタの子供で、この木は「生命の象徴」であると考えられています。
今回の投稿を友人のYoko.Iさんに贈りたいと思います
photo: flickr

20年以内には世界の3分の2の人々がアクセスできなくなってしまうという深刻な水の問題。Aspen Design Challengeはデザインの力によってその問題に取り組もうと学生を対象としたデザインコンペティションを行っています。
via: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge

現在暮らしている町、京都の嵐山には面白いスポットが豊富にある。ここ「SAGANO-YU」は、もともと銭湯だった場所を改装してカフェになっている。「今日はSAGANO-YUで一杯コーヒーでも飲んでくか」などと言えるのはなかなかおつである。

ニュージーランドのGreen Partyの行うキャンペーン。考え方は人それぞれ、もちろん評価するもしないもあなたの自由。でもたくさんの人が共感できるものが、きっとこのサイトの中に多く見つかるのではないかと思います。

それしかないという状況にあれば、きっと同じことをするでしょう。不思議といろいろなことを考えさせられた一枚です。
[via Treehugger]