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What to do with your old Apple laptop—turn it into a desktop
If you’ve recently bought one of Apple’s newest laptops, the MacBook or the MacBook Pro, you might be a little concerned by its lack of ports. The new models only have a few USB-C ports, meaning all of...
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Ikea’s new collection brings the best of African design talent under one...
Cape Town It’s a simple house, but one full of creativity and imagination. In one corner, Kenyan designers Bethan Rayner and Naeem Biviji are creating a circular wooden bench rooted in an African sense...
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We should design businesses like circles, not straight lines
Here’s what I love about being a designer: serving people’s needs and solving complex challenges. Here’s what I don’t like much: using precious resources to create stuff that people use for a limited...
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These shoes are garbage, literally
Meet Rothy’s. They’re shoes made from recycled plastic bottles. The bottles are washed, sterilized, then turned into a thin plastic fiber that can be fed into a 3D knitting machine and transformed into...
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Target used 16,000 eggs to decorate a dinner party, in a grand display of...
Designers love eggs. Often used as a visual metaphor to illustrate concepts like “hatching ideas,” “growing potential,” or “new beginnings,” the humble chicken egg appears on book jackets, album...
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Removing plastics from the oceans is “not environmentalism, it’s good business”
When you think about one of the world’s remotest islands, you are likely to picture a pristine place where nature goes about its beautiful work. Reality is that Henderson Island in the Pacific Ocean is...
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IKEA is releasing a version of its iconic shopping bag made from potato chip...
Two Egyptian women have redesigned a Swedish classic in the name of sustainability. Attendees of last week’s IKEA Democratic Design open house in Älmhult, Sweden cooed over sparkly, silver versions of...
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Try as it might, Kenya won’t succeed at banning environmentally-unfriendly...
Kenya recently announced a ban on one of the most common materials used in the country’s packaging sector – plastic bags. This includes the use, manufacture and importation of all plastic bags used for...
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You’re probably drinking little bits of plastic in your tap water
Extremely small pieces of plastic, too tiny to be removed by water filtration systems, are turning up in the vast majority of tap-water systems globally. The US-based non-profit journalism outfit Orb...
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To break our fast-fashion addiction, Greenpeace says we have to embrace “true...
Clothes are cheaper and more disposable to shoppers than ever, and the environment is suffering for it. Between 2000 and 2014, global clothing production doubled, according to McKinsey, while the...
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There’s an e-waste crisis lurking behind India’s cheap-phone boom
India is among the top generators of electronic waste (e-waste) in the world. In 2016 alone, the country churned out 1.975 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste, according to the Global E-Waste Monitor 2017,...
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Where to place all those adorable photo holiday cards? The trash
Dear sender: Your kids and pets are adorable, no doubt. You have a very handsome family. But with respect—with love—unless you’re the president or a royal, no one really wants your family portrait...
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The behavioral economics that explain why we need a tax on disposable coffee...
Since the start of the century, the number of coffee shops has risen four-fold in the UK, takeaway coffees have become more and more readily available in supermarkets and gas stations, and now an...
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Think plastic is pure evil? The surprising benefits of the world’s most...
Plastic is polluting our oceans, killing wildlife, and damaging our health, and there are widespread calls to get rid of it. But it isn’t as simple as wishing the pervasive material away. If we were to...
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Why it’s innovative—not wasteful—to destroy the Pyeongchang Olympic stadium
In the past, Olympic host cities spent billions of dollars on grandiose structures that soon become “white elephants.” Montreal’s “Big O” Olympic stadium, used for the 1976 games, currently costs the...
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In 2018, it’s a pretty badass look to recycle your Oscar dress from 1962
There aren’t many “This old thing?” moments on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, where most actresses wear custom-made gowns loaned by designers and chosen by professional stylists. This Oscars...
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A Kenyan mother, two disappearing Indian businessmen, and the battery factory...
There is the kind of lead poisoning that creeps into water supplies, builds up in children’s blood streams, and, if sustained, will impair their brains. And then there is the kind, much rarer, that...
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Westin’s ambitious plan to turn old hotel sheets into kiddie pajamas
Westin’s planet-saving plan sounded simple enough: make kids pajamas from old bed sheets. In an effort to reduce the tons of textile waste that go into landfills each year, the 88-year old...
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We underestimated the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—by 16 times
Less than a year ago, the scientific community thought the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was about the size of France. As tends to be the case with bad news about plastic pollution, the reality is worse...
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Scientists have developed a new plastic that can be recycled infinitely
The world is drowning in plastic. It packs landfills, chokes our waterways and swirls in oceans harming marine life. While extremely useful, plastic’s curse is that it sits around for thousands of...
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