We are currently working on a development of Saving the Planet In Style to make it more inclusive and diverse. I hope you have patience with us till the beginning of next year when we will release the new site!
In a study that Power of Print and Grafiska Företagens Förbund commissioned to investigate the Swedish people’s attitudes to packaging it was revealed that the Swedes prefers recyclable packaging with minimal environmental impact.
55 percent of Swedes say they often choose green products over others and 48 percent, has even gone so far as to refrain from buying a product where the packaging was not sufficiently environmentally friendly.
Might be good to take into consideration when designing packaging organic food? Read the rest of this entry »
More than 20,000 Swedish households own shares in wind turbines and the number is increasing all the time. Unlike the owners of solar power wind turbines owners often live some distance away from their facilities. In a project funded by the Energy Agency the Interactive Institute will in conjunction with the customers of O2 Vindel design services that enhance the experience of self-produced wind power.
Design will make it easier
The project “Visualization of personal electricity” by the Interactive Institute is based on individuals commitment and interest in actively participating in a shift towards a climate and energy smarter society. Researchers and consumers of electricity will jointly design the concept. Read the rest of this entry »
Architect Cord Siegel has on commission by the energy company E.ON drawn eight urban smart energy homes with an estimated annual heating demand of only 65 kWh per m2. The houses aim to combine durability with aesthetically thought through design, to achieve quality of life. Smart technology keeps the energy use low and the inhabitants will have the possibility to produce their own electricity and own water. The residents will be able to grow their own plants at home in their own heated and adjustable conservatory and enjoy swimming and bath in the common facilities, heated with pure waste heat all year round.
Reuse, reduce, recycle: Nudie reuses the old slogan in their own way and makes it into RE-Pair, Re-use, Re-Duce. It stands for the recovery and reuse of jeans. Cotton fibers are often much longer than the time the garments are used. Customers will therefore get a discount on new purchases if they leave their old jeans.
- We mend the jeans, each pair becomes unique, and sell them again, says Karin Stenmar, CSR Manager at Nudie Jeans.
Nudie Jeans new RE: garments were launched in their own stores in Gothenburg and Stockholm on the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation‘s Sustainable Swap - Read the rest of this entry »
- Sustainability isn’t trendy anymore.” During my stay in Milan i get to hear this phrase several times. The first time I only get surprised and dismiss it. I know better. There are so many designers working toward a more sustainable production and consumption today – compare it with five years ago, it’s a world of difference.
Take for example Design For Us, a design studio showing a collection of furniture made in collaboration with brain scientists with the intention to make patients recover quicker through a friendly hospital environment. The chairs and table are soft and light in a Nordic way, it is only when looking closer at them that it is evident that the ideas behind this project go deep. Read the rest of this entry »
Svensk Form is exhibiting in Milan with the title Swedish Love Stories – Welcome Home!
Saving the Planet In Style will be there to report from the Swedish stand and from interesting exhibitors around the fair with a keen eye for what is pointing to the future where that future is heading.
Piteå Museum (this is where Piteå is situated) opens an exhibition with craft from the region. As this is a country of rather enormous proportions and I live in the south I won’t be able to go and see it, but I think some of the exhibitors have some very nice pictures of their work that I want to share with you.
The first picture is of a coaster by Maria Öqvist Öhman, she also has a blog called Jag Blommar (I Blossom). She works with many different materials, both within applied and fine arts. Photo by Maria Öqvist Öhman.
This environmentally friendly technique seems to make room for some new designs.
PhD Mojgan Vaziri has developed a method to weld pine with heat instead of merging it with hazardous adhesives. In a recent doctoral thesis, she presents a technology that shows that pieces of pine wood that are welded together during intense heat can handle moisture and be twice as durable as if they were glued.
- It provides unprecedented opportunities for the timber industry, which can make furniture, floors and ceilings without the use of environmentally harmful adhesives, said Mojgan Vaziri, PhD in the Division of wood technology at LTU Skellefteå. Read the rest of this entry »
Just a reminder of a great place for inspiration and for financing your projects:
There is a deadline coming up March 18. The themes are mobility, energy and access.
