Unique Starbucks Store

This Starbucks drive-thru coffee shop in Tukwila, Washington is built entirely out of recycled shipping containers! Designed by their in-house architects, this coffee shop signifies Starbucks jump into the green bandwagon. I hope this serves as a prototype for future retail locations.

Solar-Powered Print Ad

This ad has the right idea: Promote green energy by making it solar powered. Hold up the page to sunlight, and it blossoms into full color.

Agency: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Tel Aviv

Client: Shikun & Binui Solaria (an Israeli energy company)

Hexagon Wall Tiles

By Form Us With Love in collaboration with Traullit Dekor.

These pretty tiles are made of woodwool cement and manufactured in Sweden. The material is both innovative and functional as it is moisture regulating and sound absorbent.

Visit this site to learn more: http://www.traullitdekor.se

Queen of Love Armchairs

These Baroque-style Queen of Love armchairs are done in colorful recyclable polyethylene, which means they are not only modern and eco-friendly, they are also weather proof!

Available in Chic Black, So Celestial, Red Passion, Pink Intimacy, Sweet Mandarin, Pure Green, Happy Yellow and Simple White.

Retails for $935.00 each.

Clever Little Bag (Puma Packaging)

By San Francisco designer Yves Behar.

The Clever Little Bag was designed to replace the standard Puma shoe boxes. It is made up of a recyclable heat-woven bag and a flat-pack cardboard tray. It uses 65% less cardboard than a standard shoe box, has no laminated printing and does not contain tissue paper. Fantastic.

The Colorless Can

The Colorless Can is a design concept by NY-based artist Harc Lee. It substitutes colorful painted-on graphics with machine-press label. This way, air and water pollution from the coloring and aluminum-recycling process is reduced.

I hope the big manufacturers start adapting this trendy-yet-eco-friendly concept.