///GREEN REVOLUTION

During a special summer edition of Streetlab Businesscase presented 2night Hiphonest presented the new trends in Ecofashion. Here are the links and visuals.

Inspired by Cradle-to-Cradle

Refinity, Mona Ohlendorf, Oat, Nike, Christine Vriesema

New technologies

By-wire

Via Ecouterre

Artez Graduation Show

///SPOTTED in Amsterdam

This is way we need to do the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ thing!

///NEWS LOCAL

After a week and a half long the cleaning strike in Amsterdam comes to an end and an agreement has been reached. The streets were very dirty and many residents took advantage of the strike and placed furniture and large stuff on the sidewalks. Actually what annoyed me most was the awareness it gave me of the RUBBISH we all produce. Luckily, the stench of the garbage was kept to a minimum due to Amsterdam’s relatively cool May weather!

A sincere ode to all the diehard cleaners has been made last Sunday by a group of hilarious party-people when the cleaning heroes started taking away smelly piles of ‘our’ stuff!

///CRADLE TO CRADLE

Written by Miranda Hoogervorst.

Although some old sneakers do smell as if they would do well in the compost bin, it surely is not a good idea to litter them into your garden. Glue, PVC and other poisonous materials will do no good to your fresh green lawn. Now here’s some great news for people who like to donate their shoes to the environment. Dirk-Jan Oudshoorn and Christiaan Maats of the Dutch company OAT Shoes have designed a sneaker that literally nurtures nature. As we speak, they are working on the launch of a 100% compostable, hip sneaker made from all natural ingredients. For this sneaker they were inspired by the cradle-to-cradle philosophy of Michael Braungart and William McDonough. Christiaan: “There are so many shoes in the world. Read the rest of this entry »