Emily Pilloton

Emily Pilloton is Founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness. She is also a freelance design writer, furniture designer, and nomad based in San Francisco. Trained in architecture with degrees from UC Berkeley and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has written for GOOD Magazine, Innovative Home, was Managing Editor at Inhabitat.com, and has also taught design theory in Chicago. When she isn't traveling or emailing, Emily enjoys baking cupcakes and playing trivia board games.

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IKEA Builds Wind Farms to Power Stores

Whether IKEA qualifies as sustainably-minded or not has long been up for debate, though I tend to fall on the "yes, they're trying really hard" side of the fence. The latest of their green initiatives comes with their recent announcement to build nine wind farms in partnership with Stockholm-based company O2. The wind farms will provide enough power to run 17 of their stores in Sweden,... More

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SOUPERgreen Exhibition at A+D Museum

Much of green design is more of the same - the same aesthetic, the same verbiage, the same materials, even. A new exhibition at Los Angeles' Architecture + Design Museum has set out to prove that there cooler, better alternatives to the conventional ideas of "going green." The exhibition, entitled SOUPERgreen, is open from February 12 to April 14 of this year, and showcases five archite... More

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Fiber Organics' Mod Green Designs

No longer are hemp and bamboo fabrics synonymous with boring earth-tone softgoods. In fact, Fiber Organics was inspired by their desire for "more than beige," and their current line certainly succeeds in providing color and brightness to some very green materials. Made from organic cotton, bamboo, hemp, soy, silk, and wool, their prints are hand-printed and herbally-dyed in beautiful gr... More

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Structures for Inclusion 10+1 this March

On March 25-27 in Chicago, architectural nonprofit DesignCorps is hosting the 11th annual Structures for Inclusion conference, one of the few conferences I believe has real impact. The 3-day event will "bring together activists, designers, funders, and policy makers who are at the forefront of designing in the public's interest." In short, this is a conferences for architectural and des... More

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Art From the Ordinary

Kevin Van Aelst is a Connecticut-based artist with a sense of humor and love of the ordinary (with a twist). His photographs show the most ordinary of objects (apples, bananas, rolls of tape, cardboard boxes) altered into something that transcends their usual selves. Using wit and an Exacto knife, Van Aeist is able to show the usual in a creative light (an apple as globe, a roll of tape as shark-... More

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