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Q307: Green Living: The Burning Issue

"Green Living: The Burning Issue" is about the environmental responsibility of designers and trendsetters as the packagers of cool.

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design.

Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.

Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla.

Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.

Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.

Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.

The “Metropolis” edition of Design Indaba magazine considers the world’s expected urban influx and the future role design should play.

The Young Dreamers. Youth is wasted on the young. Youth is the future of culture.

Design Indaba magazine’s 10th birthday edition teams up past and present speakers to discuss design and life.

It’s time to not only design the solution yourself, but do it yourself!