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Ecopalm coconut palm wood.

Last week I met Ecopalm at the Surface Design Show in Islington, They make floorboards from coconut palm trees, the wood comes from the actual trunk and is just cut straight into planks of solid palm wood. It could also be used for cladding walls and making furniture.       This sample is cut

Kiva, a refreshing way to finance the World.

Traditionally, in modern society, we have relied on banks to loan us money for business, for personal projects and purchases. The money they used to and still, I am talking as if it was something in the past, but now, we are fed up with unethical banks and I was going to say their unethical

Reystone laminate board by Dekodur

What is it? Reystone (Re-Y-Stone) is a bio composite eco material board made from plant based materials, no petrol. It comes in various thickness's  up to 3mm thick boards can be glued to boards such as MDF, chipboard, plywood and other such boards to make furniture or decorative panels for example. The 5mm thick boards can be used

I met some amazing people at the London Green Fair

Today I went to the London Green Fair, I have been going for 3 years in a row now and this year was the best! I met some people doing amazing stuff. Gavin from THTC creates t-shirts made from organic cotton and hemp. Gavin form THTC   Save the Jungle  

Paint Eco, natural plant based paint.

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

Organic Banana Veneer

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