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Help the EcoSystems Guys (Matt & Andrew) Secure Funding For Design Green Now!

jackson published on March 6, 2009 in celebrity, technology and zeitgeist. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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Hey SuperForesters!

Wanna do some great guys a solid?

Matt Tyson and Andrew Personette from EcoSystems in Brooklyn have created a program called Design Green Now, which host sustainability lectures in colleges to inspire new ideas.

“Design Green Now’s next steps is to create day long conferences, uniting bright leaders with intensive group design jams to create innovative solutions around waste, materials, energy, health and hunger.”

Matt Says: Design Green Now can win $20K and needs votes now! voting ends Saturday night. Click here to vote for Design Green Now.

“DGN is taking on trash in the streets, smog in the air, coal power plants, oil industry, and deforestation! This is all possible through education. Live and online the best minds behind sustainability will empower communities, business leaders, and designers to build a sustainable future now!”

Great fun. To help keep this work going go to this link, and vote for it to happen. It will take about 45 seconds.

I love these dudes and the work they do, and if you like them, vote for them.

Here is an earlier SuperForest post about Ion, EcoSystems sustainably built salon.
And the EcoSystems all bamboo mini Bamba chair! Swoon!

And here’s the EcoSystems site.

Thank you very much!

-Jackson

EcoSystems – ION Salon NYC

jackson published on December 16, 2008 in celebrity and technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

The clever EcoSystems gents have done it again!

This time with the gorgeous sustainably-minded hair salon, ION, right here in NYC.

Check it out:

“At the TREE base on the lower level, the water runs along the 4 (four) back
washbasins, which are being complemented with “rocking” chairs, allowing the
clientele to sit back and relax, while looking up through interior skylights and
enjoying the sun light.

All the custom made furniture is bent wood, designed with soft rounded curves
giving ample comfort, and as well sinuosity all around the three main rooms,
poetically perceived as floating leaves coming from the tree.

Besides the nature of the line of products the salon implements (Davines), and
the clean energy resource that feeds the same (wind power), Ecosystems
material selection remarks the use of FSC certified wood, natural based coating
finishes, LED and compact fluorescent lighting, no VOC water base paints and
the optimizations of exposed existing natural materials on site.

Balancing a both sided strong effort, a strict timeline and an adjusted budget,
ION Salon was achieved under conscious and responsible guidelines to generate
what could be considered to become the first “Eco-Salon” in NYC.”

-Pablo Souto

Yeah, sugar! If I had hair, I’d get it cut there!

EcoSystems is amazing.

Young, creative, and utterly dedicated to sustainability. If you need some furniture or interior design work done, and you don’t mind on time and on budget, call EcoSystems, ask for SuperForester Matt, and tell ‘em who sent ya!

Looky, EcoSystem dudes so cute:

Here are two more posts we’ve written about them: Bamba chair & Mini-Bamba.

Everywhere you look, it seems folks are getting down with sustainability. It makes for a good feeling in the wintry bones.

Love,

Jackson

(all images courtesey of Ricardo Parra. Danke Ricardo!)