Eco Home Furniture Design Ideas

This Nomad Modular Screen room divider is flexible, fun, eco-friendly and affordable. The possibilities for are endless with this light, modular partitioning system. Nomad is designed to quickly assemble into free-standing screens, temporary partitions and display backdrops. You don’t even need tools!
Made from recycled, double-wall colored cardboard, the screens can be arranged in both open and closed configurations. The wall divider system’s slotted design can turn corners and easily adjust to any indoor space. Perfect for a makeshift home office, or even for your kid’s room - they can go wild with creativity - re-designing their own spaces!

One of IKEA’s latest steps toward sustainability, this year it will eliminate its checkout use of plastic bags, for which it began charging UK customers two years ago. More than 380 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone, polluting land and waters with toxic chemicals. In the early part of the decade, Ikea pledged to phase out unhealthy formaldehyde and PVC in its core products, and to stock wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

Anchorage, Alaska is planning to replace 16,000 streetlight fixtures—a quarter of all the streetlight fixtures in the city; with LEDs. The new streetlights will use 50% less energy than the current fixtures, which could save Anchorage $360,000 each year. The city has invested $2.2 million in the plan. And, since Anchorage has 85 days a year with less than eight hours of sun, energy efficiency initiatives like these are crucial to the city’s survival. Once this catches on in other major cities, we’ll save billions.

Herzog & de Meuron new design for the Tate Modern Extension (due to be completed in 2012) incorporates a modern, glass heavy aesthetic that totally contrasts the museum building’s origins as a power station. Recently they unveiled images of the redesign which brings a pyramid shaped brick structure to this anchor point of the museum. The new design not only fits the museum’s needs much more effectively, it will surely set the new standard for sustainability in the United Kingdom.

Al Gore has now appealed to the competitive nature of the United States with an energy challenge that calls for a complete shift to renewable in the whole electricity sector. Gore is raising the bar with an end goal of total carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power by 2018. This would mean more funding and effort into electric vehicles, but the really ambitious plan would go much further than transportation and be felt throughout the green building industry. Elections are fast approaching and as usual, this is a hot buttin issue, with a push to drill for yet more oil, Gore’s challenge is as important as it is clear: in order to overcome an unsustainable life, we need to completely rethink how we view and understand energy.

Los Angeles has added itself to the quickly growing numbers of countries and cities that are putting their foot down when it comes to plastic bags. The awesome trend was started in places like Australia, China, Israel, Melbourne and San Francisco , and now with L.A. joining the fight, we might actually see more and more American cities taking a stand against one of the biggest threats to our lands and oceans. Plastic bags are terrible!