After shoes and swimwear made from marine waste, Adidas also presents biodegradable shoes that are more environmentally friendly. Adidas Futurecraft Biofabric can thus be degraded in less than 36 hours after a special enzyme is added to it.
This year, on April 24, we celebrate the Slovenian Day without wasted food for the first time. We can also contribute a lot to reducing the amount of wasted food and thus prevent the unnecessary consumption of natural resources, money and packaging. By making small changes in the way we buy, cook and plan meals, we can save time, improve eating habits and, above all, help protect the environment.
Bovec Outdoor Film Festival is a festival of films about sports, adventure and ecology, which brightens up the last days of December in Bovec every year.
Air pollution appears more and more often on the agenda of TV reports, round tables and, after all, also in our conversations. It is a serious problem that especially large cities face, and the Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde, who started the "Smog Free" project in 2014, is also aware of this. His first product, the Smog Free Tower, with which he installed the world's first air purifiers of this kind in Amsterdam in 2015, now has a sequel: a bicycle with a purifier.
We live in what many scientists call the Anthropocene, a period of geologic time characterized by human influence on Earth's geology and ecosystems. As the Earth's temperature rises and natural disasters occur with alarming frequency, the environment is rapidly approaching a tipping point from which we can no longer turn back. But understanding the facts about the state of our planet is just the beginning.
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong is a fan of underwater photography, and for the past year he has been tackling 'boring' topics such as climate change and wildlife conservation with his photographic projects. With their latest project, Mermaids Hate Plastic, they keep this trend going. This time he tackles plastic pollution. If the previous two subjects were much more grateful for the lens, this time too he managed to create fascinating scenes from seemingly unphotogenic subjects. He employed underwater girls and created a sea out of 10,000 bottles – the amount the average American would consume in a lifetime. The project draws attention to the pressing problem of plastic pollution.
Ecocapsule is a self-sufficient mobile home of a futuristic design by the Bratislava office Nice Architects, which offers a stay off the grid for up to one year. Each unit is equipped with solar panels and a wind turbine and designed to capture rainwater. The interior has a kitchenette with running water and a hot shower.
We all know that the disposal of plastic bottles has the lion's share of the global climate crisis. But are we really aware of this? In a world that produces 300 million pieces of plastic annually, we desperately wish we had other options! This is where the Dutch company Avantium can come to our aid. With the support of major companies such as Coca-Cola, Carlsberg and Danone, they are developing a "vegetable plastic" that could replace the classic plastic used in food chains.
We are all aware of how important it is to take care of the environment, but we often forget that we can also contribute to change ourselves. That's why we've prepared 40 simple things you can do to help our planet every day. Remember: every little thing counts and it is important that we all do our best to live as healthy and environmentally friendly as possible.
The city of Amsterdam is introducing the "gumshoe", sports shoes with soles made of chewing gum scraped from the streets of the city. The project is designed in cooperation with the advertising agency Publicis One and the manufacturer of Gum-tec® rubber. A campaign to raise awareness among Amsterdam residents about the problem of chewing gum on the city streets. Creative and different.
What if pencil scraps could grow into something delicious, beautiful, and fun instead of filling up with trash? In September, a somewhat unusual family arrived on the Slovenian market - this is the Sprout family of pencils that grow.
Bike lanes are commonplace in the Western world. Not in Pakistan. The capital Islamabad just got its first bike lane! This is the first step towards a cleaner city, which, like many other capitals around the world, is drowning in smog.