The Sustainable Furnishings Council and Elon University will present a one-day program that features the latest thinking in sustainability and charts the future of responsible design. The program, "Innovations in Sustainable Furnishings: ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected five educational and cultural facilities for this year's CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The CAE Design Excellence Award honors ...
Amala Carpets, creators of custom handmade luxury carpets, has received award accolades and rave reviews for their newly-launched Zee Silk collection. Amala developed a new eco-friendly and sustainable silk fibre, manufactured with 100 ...
Tags: Zee Silk Collection, Amala Carpets
How do you use packaging to communicate your sustainable strategy to customers? Come and find out. On July 17, 2013, Jim Hanna, director, environmental impact, Starbucks Coffee Co., will speak at the Packaging Digest Global Food & ...
Tags: Packaging, Sustainability, Gateway
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Construction
New York is like no other city and FIT is like no other college. FIT and NYC set the pace in the fields of design, fashion, advertising, communications, and international commerce. FIT hosts an array of luminaries, from NYC and all over the ...
Tags: Textile Trends, Sustainable Color
Upon driving south on California’s 405 Freeway, a new solar array has popped up over the last years or so. Large in size and definitely noticeable, and even though it may be creating energy what about its overall appearance? What if ...
Tags: Lunar Cubit, Solar Energy
Energy efficient lighting leader recognized for 5-inch Aperture Eco-Downlight LED and Eco-Invizilite CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), pioneers of recessed downlighting and leaders in energy efficient lighting, has received the ...
The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition educating and enabling emerging designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Now in its fourth cycle, The EcoChic Design Award 2013 is expanding to ...
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Lexus and the CFDA are now accepting applications for the 2013 Lexus Eco-Fashion Challenge. Founded in 2010 as a response to both the CFDA and Lexus’ commitment to sustainable practices, the Award is given to designers who best ...
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Romsey Dental Care, a modern dental practice and cosmetic studio in Hampshire, UK, recently took steps to reduce energy costs by replacing their existing lighting with LED luminaires. The practice won a Green Business Award last year for ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, LED, Luminaires
CHINESE supplier Yuanda has won $85 million worth of contracts on the SA Health and Medical Research Institute and the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. This month, Shenyang Yuanda Aluminium Industry Engineering trading as Yuanda began ...
Toronto, Mississauga and the GTA need their glass consciousness raised. Building experts say resiliency and energy efficiency are going out the window with all those floor-to-ceiling glass walls being installed in the city's towering ...
Tags: glass buildings, glass, glass consciousness
AGA CAD Ltd. is pleased to announce the strategic partnership between Arup, the global engineering and design firm and AGA CAD, a developer of BIM solutions and Revit extensions under the tools4revit? trademark. The people at Arup are ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announces its new EcoTain approach to sustainable innovation. The EcoTain life cycle and label developed by Clariant is driven by the commitment to protect human, environmental and ecological ...