Sustainable design

Everyone talks about sustainable design, but my nephew Joe Gebbia and his friend Matt Grigsby are actually doing something about it.

As I mentioned here, Joe is a product and graphic designer and an entrepreneur who launched a company while he was still a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation, he and Matt  founded an organization  called Ecolect which caters to industrial designers looking for materials to use in "green" design.  Ecolect's mission is "to be the largest freely accessible sustainable materials library in the world."

Ecolect is accessible online via an easy to use Website featuring only materials with sustainable attributes. It includes user reviews and images, case studies, and a blog and helps designers find vendors for sustainable materials to use in their products and projects.

It's a creative concept serving a creative community working toward a better future.  If you or someone you know is using or researching eco-friendly design, send them to Ecolect.

May 7, 2008

Comments

[Granola-grrrl]

I was pretty impressed when I was browsing through that site. I am always interested to see how other people take their experience and apply it within their sphere of influence. Of course, it's even more interesting when I'm related to them :)

[V-Grrrl]

Absolutely! I'm related to some amazing people. : )

[Amber]

That is very cool!

:)

[AnnieH]

I'm going to pass this on to my husband who thinks he's Mr.Green Jeans. Being green is quite admirable until he cuts down on the hot water supply for the morning shower.Then it's just damn irritating. Perhaps I can distract him with this website while I wash my hair:>)