ecopolis

192021 is a prroject devoted to the analyses and definitions of patterns reguarding the urban population explosion. The cities are the most consuming resources zone of the globe, they served as manufacturing place since ever, using the resources coming from agricultural zones near and far away. They’re growing and in the 21th century there’ll be 19 cities with over 20 millions people. These will be the hot spot.

Down here a map of the most populated cities of the world trough history:

Superuse.org is a community dedicated to design and recycling. It’s an initiative of 2012 Architects and Suite75. Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling.

This is a result after taking a better look at the Chiquita cardboard boxes found in a nearby supermarket; After collecting at least ten of them, cutting, folding and experimenting a new chandelier appears.

A raft made of plastic Coca Cola crates and bottles.

This is a very simple and inventive way to start double using clean water running into your toilet basin.

No matter if old circuit boards, washer drums, cable or plugs they we craft elegant and high-quality jewelery, furniture and accessories out of it. The products are largely made of recycled parts of used electric and electronic devices. Each piece is handmade and therefore unique.

Don’t Bring Loo Roll!

Glastonbury Festival (Glastonbury Festival Line-Up 2007) has partnered with the people at Nouvelle to provide free rolls of 100% recycled loo paper to encouraging people to be as green as possible at this year’s Festival.

As well as handing out free rolls of recycled toilet tissue, Nouvelle is also helping with recycling collections at Glastonbury. It will provide free colour coded bin bags to enable festival goers to segregate waste for recycling.

Nouvelle toilet tissue is made from 100% high quality recycled paper from the roll to the core.

From the roll to another core : controversial Graffiti artist BANSKY has created a very-site-specific replica of the ancient Stonehenge monument, a “Henge monument and a World Heritage Site”, which consists of menhirs (large stones) in a circular formation. The Bansky monument consists of portable toilets in a circular formation into the world Heritage Site of the Glastonbury Festival.

Credit Photograph: Banksy/PR/Guardian

The photograph taken by the graffiti artist himself and published in the UK Guardian shows a druidic figure standing atop the monument: “A lot of monuments are a bit rubbish,” he said, “but this really is a pile of crap.”

Let’s make money then?

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
22nd, 23rd and 24th June 2007

“These adverts highlight the controlling nature of tobacco.”

The UK government is set to highlight the addictive nature of cigarettes in a new advertising campaign. Running for five weeks, the campaign will highlight how smokers get “hooked” on cigarettes through gripping images that show smokers being violently dragged by fishing hooks to their addiction.

Camel 9 is a new brand launched in the US that targets young women.

David Lynch’s Wacky Cigarette Ad:

Get Unhooked:

Steve Jobs responded today, with a letter on the company website, to the attack of Greenpeace, that started a campaign to ask Apple to become more green.

In a five pages counter-attack, Jobs declared that “Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon investigating Apple’s current practices and progress towards these goals, I was surprised to learn that in many cases Apple is ahead of, or will soon be ahead of, most of its competitors in these areas. Whatever other improvements we need to make, it is certainly clear that we have failed to communicate the things that we are doing well.”

Then he precisely define the actions that Apple is doing about environmental policies and recycling of toxic chemicals, explaining that they were not communicated so well.

Apple recycled 13 million pounds of e-waste in 2006, which is equal to 9.5% of the weight of all products Apple sold seven years earlier. They expect this percentage to grow to 13% in 2007, and to 20% in 2008. By 2010, they forecast recycling 19 million pounds of e-waste per year — nearly 30% of the product weight Apple sold seven years earlier.

Then he even make some promises, telling that about the future that “today is the first time we have openly discussed our plans to become a greener Apple. It will not be the last. We will be providing updates of our efforts and accomplishments at least annually, most likely around this time of the year. And we plan to bring other environmental issues to the table as well, such as the energy efficiency of the products in our industry. We are also beginning to explore the overall carbon “footprint” of our products, and may have some interesting data and issues to share later this year.

I hope you are as delighted as I was when I first learned how far along Apple actually is in removing toxic chemicals from its products and recycling its older products. We apologize for leaving you in the dark for this long. Apple is already a leader in innovation and engineering, and we are applying these same talents to become an environmental leader. Based on our tangible actions and results over time, hopefully our customers, employees, shareholders and professional colleagues will all feel proud of our ongoing efforts to become a greener Apple.“