Pasona Urban Farm with a vertical farm inside and out. Kono Designs, the architecture firm behind the largest urban farm in Japan, hopes that 15,000 square foot corporate office building with a double skinned green facade will make urbanites reconsider agriculture and embrace this new design trend. 20% of the Tokyo based recruitment agency Pasona … Read more
Veuve Clicquot‘s champagne had always artistic innovative packaging like origami-style foldable champagne bucket by Belgian designer Mathias Van De Walle or Jeff Koons’ mini replicas of his life-sized “Balloon Venus” art installations for Rosé Vintage 2003. With Veuve Clicquot‘s “Naturally Clicquot” packaging by French designer Cédric Ragot, the famous French champagne house based in … Read more
From water conservation and energy saving to staff action teams and even beehives, it has taken more than a year to ensure that this luxury hotel is in line with the demanding standards of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) – an European Community management tool designed to improve the environmental performance of organisations … Read more
Consumers prepared to pay more for environmentally friendly products. Fifty percent of global consumers are willing to pay more for goods and services from companies that have implemented programs to give back to society, an increase of five points (45%) from 2011, according to a new study from Nielsen. The Nielsen Global Survey on Corporate … Read more
A new interactive map produced by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows all the world’s vegetation. The satellite images were compiled into a single high-resolution image showing how much greenery covers the Earth. Although 75% of the planet is a relatively unchanging ocean of blue, the remaining 25% of Earth’s surface … Read more
Ernst & Young releases 10th anniversary edition of the Renewable energy country attractiveness index. A new era is dawning in the renewable energy industry. Energy demand, natural resource, technology costs, access to finance and global competitiveness are identified as the key influences for investors, according to the 10th anniversary edition of the Renewable Energy Country … Read more