Courtesy of TreeHugger comes news of a fantastic new website: Ecolect. The site, the brain child of a couple of RISD grads, is a search-friendly database of sustainable materials - like the bamboo Shanghai screens above - which will make it that much easier for designers and home enthusiasts to think green. The best part? Visitors to the site will be able to rate materials, write reviews, and upload images of projects where the materials were used - kinda like Yelp (only populated by savvy greenies).
Check out this gorgeous reclaimed timber flooring:
In the founders' own words: "Ecolect’s mission has always been simple, yet ambitious: to help designers find sustainable materials, to provide makers of new materials a space to publicize their innovations and create a vibrant forum for designers committed to sustainability to share their inspiration, occasional frustration, new information and everything in between."
10.18.2007
This Just In: Ecolect Launches, Green Designers Rejoice
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3 comments:
love the reclaimed wood floor
What great news! And I can't get enough of that flooring!
i love that top photo ~ esp since i painted a ton of bamboo red for a little project i just finished. what a fun coincidence to see a similar treatment here. :o) plus ecolet sounds awesome!
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