Creating a positive impact through fashion — With everything we buy, we are responsible for carbon emissions to end up in the air and are therefore creating a negative impact on the environment. The shirt that I will present to you now aims to reverse that completely. Another Tee offsets the CO2 equivalent of the average annual…

These designs will make hopeful for our future! — On our Instagram platform @Greendesigns_ we share innovative and sustainable designs almost every day to inspire and create change. Now, we want to share with you the 5 posts that were the most successful seem to inspired many individuals: NUMBER 5: Danish brand Projectkintravel is creating sustainable alternatives for mindful travellers. They make sure to use eco-friendly, non-toxic, high quality materials, create highly functional products, minimize their CO2 footprint as much as possible, and to be transparent throughout the whole process.

Let’s go back in time — Within the sustainable design scene there have been several trends and patterns of how to design in order to be environmentally sustainable. There are rather new ideas like the Cradle-to-Cradle philosophie, in which products are designed within a technical or natural circular system. Another big trend (more so outside of…

One of the most sustainable ways of how to create a new and sustainable material is to use what we’ve already got. Using waste not only saves you resources, it also comes free or very cheap most of the time and even has a great impact by not landing on landfills or in the ocean. — There are many innovative and beautiful ways, in which waste has been used to create something new. I want to show you my favorite projects I have collected by curating Greendesigns_ on Instagram. These are coming from design students, small businesses or even big companies. The aesthetic that comes from using waste is truly beautiful and it is fascinating considering that they cannot be created using virgin materials.

It’s mycelium! What? You’ve never heard of it? Let me explain: Mycelium is a self-growing, completely natural material that is also extremely durable and stable. It’s more commonly known as the mushroom root. — Through my work on curating my Instagram platform, I have reported on several amazing designs using mycelium. Here’s a selection: The ‚GROW IT YOURSELF HELMET‘ by Nosdesign is a mycelium-based helmet that helps kids to get involved in the making products and teaches the importance of sustainability. By being able…

PIZZycle is a reusable and eco-friendly pizza packaging concept, which substitutes cardboard pizza boxes and offers value to pizza restaurants, customers and the environment. — The packaging is composed of two identical, round shells, following the shape of a pizza. PIZZycle can be carried easily, cleaned in the dishwasher and stored efficiently. Transportation as well as storage are optimized due to the round and conic form. …

NASA-approves sustainable Mars housing — Marsha, short for Mars habitat, is a 3D-printed vertical home designed by AI Space Factory for life on the red planet. A future prospect that incites both fear and excitement from society but an exploration that many believe essential. The design, recognised by NASA for its ingenuity and feasibility, looks…

The first sustainable and easy-to-hide test — A start-up called Lia from the US is working on a flushable pregnancy test. Yes, flushable! But what will happen to the test once it’s flushed? You’ll find out in a second. Meetlia is the first flushable pregnancy test. This is possible as it is made from paper and will biodegrade within 10 weeks! Therefore, there will be no trace of the test once it is flushed. Lia offers to provide an alternative to existing plastic pregnancy tests, which contribute two million kilograms of non-recyclable waste to US landfills each year!