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Anthropologie Windows Combine: Recycled Plastic, Social Media, and Customers

Anthropologie Windows Combine: Recycled Plastic, Social Media, and Customers

Despite the frigid cold after a giant snowstorm, a glimpse of spring was in the air today as I walked by the Anthropologie flagship in Rockefeller Center. Their store window...
MSLK’s Things to Love 2010

MSLK’s Things to Love 2010

MSLK has once again composed a list of affordable and eco-friendly ways to spend your Valentine’s Day. From tasty treats to secret art shows, it doesn’t matter who you spend...
MSLK Featured in New Book: Urban Interventions

MSLK Featured in New Book: Urban Interventions

MSLK's two eco-art installations "2663 Urban Tumbleweeds" and "Watershed" are featured in a new art compilation entitled "Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Places." The editor, Matthias Huebner, states:...
IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Powered Outdoor Lights

IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Powered Outdoor Lights

This is the kind of design innovation we all should all be doing. Why can't all our outdoor lighting be solar powered? It's an even input to output exchange, no...
The Secret to Abandoning Bottled Water is Convenience

The Secret to Abandoning Bottled Water is Convenience

Twelve months after resolving to give up bottled water I can safely say my days of drinking bottled water are 100% behind me. With a new year's goal to reduce...
Turning Plastic Back into Oil

Turning Plastic Back into Oil

In a twist of sustainability meets alchemy, Washington, DC-based Envion can turn  plastic back into oil, producing a net gain in energy recaptured. The Envion Oil Generator™ uses proprietary low...
MSLK’s 2009 (Re)Design Flatpack Stool Award

MSLK’s 2009 (Re)Design Flatpack Stool Award

MSLK's AIGA award arrived last week in a most unusual form: as a stool. A shallow USPS Flat Rate Box containing confetti, five pieces of particle board, and a sheet...
Fabulous Reusable Shopping Bag Discovered at the New York International Gift Fair

Fabulous Reusable Shopping Bag Discovered at the New York International Gift Fair

Certainly there were tons of green and eco-friendly items at the 2009 NYIGF, but one project stands apart as perfect blend of necessity, innovation, sustainability, and simplicity. The stretch bag...
Watershed Installs on Governors Island!

Watershed Installs on Governors Island!

  After a day of hoisting, tying, tugging, and lifting, Watershed was installed by MSLK yesterday on Governers Island without a hitch. Please join on Saturday at Figment for our...
Water Bottles on the Big Screen

Water Bottles on the Big Screen

In keeping with our water theme this month, one of our readers reached out to me with a hot tip that a documentary about the bottle water industry, entitled Tapped,...