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Gypsy Caravan Kicks off London Design Festival

All images by B. Alter London Design Festival 2010 is starting this week. TreeHuggers Leonora, Petz and yours truly will be pounding the streets to find the newest, hottest, chic-est and best design. It’s an eclectic mix, including an anti-design festival and a Transcendental Gypsy Caravan of Creativity . That’s a gypsy caravan travelling the streets of London filled with treasures by artists, designers, fu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gypsy Caravan Kicks off London Design Festival

Container Cafe is a View Tube on the Olympic Site

Images by B. Alter Called the View Tube, this stunning cafe is made out of lime green recycled shipping containers. Perched on a hill overlooking the site of the London 2012 Olympics, it is a cafe, a look-out and a gallery space. It is also much more: a social enterprise, serving as a focal point for the arts, environmental classes, local artists as well as an education centre for the community…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Container Cafe is a View Tube on the Olympic Site

In Chicago, A Fashion Show Satisfies Our Love for Recycled Textiles (and Our Sweet Tooth, Too) [Photos]

From afar it looks like just another golden hued evening gown but up close it’s hundreds of M&M wrappers–yum! Image courtesy of EarthShare Illinois We’re no strangers to green fashion in Chicago; Designers Vaute Couture , Frei Designs , and Mountains of the Moon

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In Chicago, A Fashion Show Satisfies Our Love for Recycled Textiles (and Our Sweet Tooth, Too) [Photos]