I came up with a new word today. I was overcome by anxiety as I often am when confronted by a mountain of relatively uniform waste. So much could be done with it! If I only had a brain! If only I could intervene before it’s picked up by sanitation, headed for the landfill or [...]
Waste
March 28, 2011
Build It Green: reclaimed bowling alley floor
By SinclairJust saw these beautiful big cuts of reclaimed bowling alleys on the Build It Green website. I would really like to sink my teeth into this stuff. Who needs a conference table?! Two weeks ago I was at the Columbus Ave Shake Shack with my son and noticed that the tables and counters are [...]
March 19, 2011
Blue Bottle Coffee: now with more green
By SinclairAs if Blue Bottle Coffee were not already about as cool as it gets with their incredible roasts and brews and foams and wild apparatus behind the glass there on Berry in Williamsburg, they had to go that extra step and be as green as possible with their cups. New cups are 100% compostable [...]
February 28, 2011
Bathtub Overflow Cover
By SinclairIt is a growing concern of mine that publications from the product design community continuously tend to focus on innovations in form, style and lifestyle influence, attributes of products that are central to their perceived value by us users, but that are really only a small part of the story of their measurable impact as [...]
February 10, 2011
Something’s wrong here.
By SinclairThis is a clear hard plastic cover for an iPhone 4 still in its packaging from Incase. And this is the price tag. Not bad. Someone’s doing pretty well making aftermarket plastic parts for a fancy phone and charging a fancy penny. But what gets me is this: below are the four main components that [...]