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Design

Is rice starch a sustainable alternative to plastic?

London – Maria Kurian has re-engineered ecological materials to create alternatives to plastic that only last for as long as they are used.

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Marketing & Branding

New Consciousness

Responsibility is being rebranded. As businesses apply long-term thinking, a vibrant visual landscape is emerging that inspires action and optimism.

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Food & Drink

Food before industry

London – Silo Brighton is a restaurant, bakery and coffee house that uses a pre-industrial food system to ensure its zero-waste policy.

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Design

Preview: Clerkenwell Design Week 2015

Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 – In a preview of this week’s show report, we highlight the design festival’s range of projects, spectacles and pop-ups.

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Beauty

O’right Recoffee

It’s all well and good to talk about sustainability, the possibilities and the potential, but green haircare brand O’right is putting its money where its mouth is with its line of products made from used coffee beans.

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Marketing & Branding

Liquid asset: Wine bottle made from recycled paper

Healdsburg, California – British packaging firm GreenBottle has collaborated with Californian wine producer Truett-Hurst to launch Paperboy, a wine bottle made from compressed recycled paper, for US supermarket retailer Safeway.

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Technology

Smart home: Panasonic puts energy into eco-house

Tokyo – Electronics company Panasonic has unveiled a design for an Eco Ideas House that would release almost no CO2 emissions.

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Culture & Media

Book of cards: Future goes down to the WIRE

Zurich – Think tank WIRE, the Web for Interdisciplinary Research and Expertise, has released a file-card publication called Mind the Future, a compendium for contemporary trends.

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Design

Première Vision

The Première Vision exhibition in Paris earlier this month ended with a sense of optimism, following a 10% rise in visitor numbers and 667 exhibitors from 29 countries, as business starts to recover from the economic turbulence of the past two years.