snow spirals

Snow Circles from Beauregard, Steamboat Aerials on Vimeo.

angels are out. spirals are in. by sonja hinrichsen, via swiss miss

pretty pollution

these photos of the ocean's plastic are stunning. by mandy barker.

"The intention of my work is to visually attract the viewer to the image and for them to question what it represents."

ouuus and ahhhs

out of this world beautiful. the solar flare that's causing them sounds a bit dodgy though...

cinderella

i'm sure this is much more complicated than it looks, but what a cool idea. tutorial here.

include the food

i'm very proud to live in a city that, starting october 31, has weekly city-wide compost pickup and bi-weekly trash pickup. we're already putting our newly delivered bin to use. now, to get punch pizza to open up shop on the west coast. and all my mpls friends to relocate here...

bill

i often ask myself, who would i most like to have a beer and good conversation with? the answer changes a lot, but one of the regular contenders is bill clinton. (so is hillary, btw). the man is smart. and he talks about issues that normally make my head spin, in a way that i can understand and relate to. his newsweek article on the job crisis is worth a read. via good.

the white roof project

a simple idea with a big impact.

As we've reported on GOOD before, painting white the black roofs that top many of American cities can deflect 70 percent more sun, keeping interiors cooler, reducing the urban heat island effect, and curbing global warming.

congestion tax

i saw a commercial for this on PBS the other day (nerd alert), did some google research and think it's pretty amazing. stockholm (also london, oslo and singapore) introduced a trial congestion tax to reduce the amount of cars on the roads and paired with IBM to make it technologically seamless. "The goal was not only to reduce congestion, but encourage ancillary benefits, such as improving public transportation and alleviating environmental damage." in the six month trial period, traffic moved down nearly 25%, 40,000 more people ride on public transportation everyday and greenhouse gases dropped 40% in the inner-city. the tax was reinstated by swedish law in july 2007.

eco pizza

bomb ass package design

nice ride

a great new bike sharing service is coming to minneapolis this spring! it will run between NE, downtown and uptown. we had had the great fortune to partner with nice ride this past winter to come up with a bike kiosk poster near aveda's institute. here is my favorite design although it did not end up as the final pick.

crystal caves

these are amazing! sent by anna.

the cost of food

an nice video from good that makes some interesting correlations.

sorel

love the clean, modern site design for sorel. anyone know who was the mastermind? the 360 view option is really great and when you order you can select to have your package sent in a reused box to cut down on waste. brilliant.

rawwrr!

the eco warrior bag. i love it. via swiss miss

green clean

good concoctions for natural cleaning solutions. now all i need is a lemon tree.

smart, smart, smart

thank you utah! 4 day, 10 hour work weeks. thanks for the article, anna!

the future of food

saw this movie last night. extremely good, but extremely horrifying. worth a watch at hulu.

ecofont

smart idea:

Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.

happy earth day!

a great video sent by april.
Zeus Jones Phizzpop SXSW Finale from Zeus Jones on Vimeo.

crane paper

anna sent out a link today for crane's new line of 100% cotton paper with a beautiful swatch book designed by C&G. Coolest part: no cotton is even grown to make it -it all comes from fibers left over during industrial cotton processing.