Paint Eco is a young paint company based in Latvia. I had the pleasure of speaking with Julija Simkovica, Paint Eco's General Manager at EcoBuild this year in London. Talking to Julija, I got a very warm feeling that they where a great company who really cared about the environment, and where not just jumping
I met Marco Cassin. He is the founder and one of the directors of Beleaf along with his father and someone else.They are based in Monaco. Marco found a way to make a veneer from a waste by product of the Organic banana industry. The veneer uses the core of the banana plant which is
This is a responce I posted on the CNN website about the construction of wooden sky scrapers. I was really emoted to write a long responce to many negative comments based on peoples preconseptions and shortsightenes about wood and lack of understanding about sustainability. "I cannot believe how negative some people are. And
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My first 13 years in Belgium I was born in the UK, in London, Paddington on the 2nd Janurary 1976. Gosh that makes me feel emotional... There is a strange sensation you get when you right certain things down... When I was a few months old i moved to Belgium with my parents and sister
Milo is a small coffee or bedside table made of recycled waste off cut wood material and unwanted old fitted furniture pulled out of peoples houses. In 2011, after deciding to follow my passion and do something for our planet I started looking closer at how we use materials. I came up with a design
