Posts Tagged ‘cradle to cradle’

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

via Jetson Green; posted by Matt Grocoff

Switch Lighting, creator of the only LED that uses liquid cooling technology, is on the cusp of a breakout year in 2012. The Switch bulb creates the same warm color of an incandescent, yet it’s made with reclaimable or recyclable materials using the Cradle to Cradle methodology. Inside the bulb is a liquid thermal cooling solution that helps cool the LEDs from all sides, producing more light from less LEDs. In fact, a Switch bulb lasts about 25 times longer and uses 80% less energy than an incandescent.

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Obituary: Plastic coffee cup lid dies at age 44

Friday, December 23rd, 2011
by Matthew Grocoff, Esq. LEED Green Associate

Compleat coffee cup with sip lid

Designer Zeke Shore traces the first tearable vented plastic lid for coffee back to 1967 patent filed by Alan Frank of Philadelphia. Through the decades companies like Solo continually improved the design and the plastic lid became as much a part of American culture as french fries, apple pie and fried butter on a stick.

Today the plastic lid was killed, murdered actually , by a radical reinvention of the disposable coffee mug called Compleat.  I give this a design grade of A+.  Sustainability grade?  Well . . . I’m not sure the planet will notice.

Take-out beverage lids collected in the '90s and early '00s, photographed by sarcoptiform

The Solo Traveler lid patent drawings

Read Belinda Lanks article on the Compleat coffee cup Startup Radically Reinvents The Disposable Coffee Cup, Eliminating Plastic Lids

Learn more about the Rise of the Disposable Plastic Coffee Cup Lid in this great article

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