Indian company makes tableware from leaves
In Hyderabad, India, a local company is making biodegradable tableware and packaging from fallen areca leaves and recycled paper.
"I call myself a waste person,...
Kansas company creates more comfortable prosthetics using hemp fiber
In Kansas, a company called Human Plant Solutions has developed lower-extremity prosthetics using a hemp fibers.
The company was cofounded in 2017 by medical...
Norwegian designer revives lost art of Romanian hoof fungus
In Norway, up and coming designer Mari Koppanen is revisiting a mushroom leather that was once commonly used in the Transylvanian region.
She recently featured...
Addressing space boo-boos with 3D printed skin bandages
In Germany, researchers are testing whether 3D-printed skin cells could work for wound care on long space voyages. The German Space Agency’s Bioprint FirstAid...
Pining for sustainability: Indian fruit processor to repurpose pineapple waste
In India, The Vazhakkulam Agro and Fruit Processing Company will soon begin producing cutlery and plates from pineapple leaves. A joint venture owned by...
Controversial artist to make diamonds from poop, unsold art
In Switzerland, provocative installation artist Christoph Büchel will convert his unsold work and DNA extracted from his own feces into lab-grown diamonds. The ongoing...
A humerus idea: Swiss designer makes light switches, electrical sockets from animal bones
In Switzerland, recent ECAL design school grad Souhaïb Ghanmi had a particularly unusual final project proposal: repurposing bones from the animal processing industry into...
Prized poop: Elephant dung bricks win design award
In Thailand, architect Boonserm Premthada has won the designboom social impact Design Prize for developing bricks made from elephant dung.
Made in the Thai village...
Three Little Pigs gives natural construction materials a bad rap?
In the Netherlands, the president of a climate change and inequality action group is huffing and puffing over the stigma associated with biobased building...
Hemp helps France claim world’s first carbon-negative building
In France, architecture firm lemoal lemoal has built what it claims to be the world’s first carbon-negative building, thanks in large part to the...