October 05, 2007 | Filed under: News
Verde que te quiero Verde
How green attitudes are changing the future of Cebu X furniture
Almost overnight, the world has grown a conscience. People have learned to calculate their carbon footprints. If you don’t already drive a Prius, chances are you are looking to purchase a hybrid or energy-efficient car in the next 5 years. Many of us already feel a genuine twinge of guilt whenever we purchase groceries in a plastic bag. We talk about “offsetting” our businesses’ carbon emissions by giving back to special funds that eliminate or reduce pollution in our name.
Naturally, our future furniture purchases should come from renewable sources.
The global furniture industry is responding to these attitudes. Internally, Cebu X has made a commitment to evaluate its present manufacturing and product sourcing methods and consider alternatives that are friendlier to the environment.
Creating eco-friendly furniture is...(read more)
September 08, 2007 | Filed under: Material Features
Green is the New Black
Blame it on Al Gore. Blame it on the snowballing information phenomenon, but however you see it, looks like the trend is here to stay. With their increasing preference for all products environment-friendly, customers are now dictating a furniture revolution where not just the outcome but the means of manufacturing matters.
Vendors are taking customers seriously. Sustainability is the buzzword right now for furniture meccas such as the Las Vegas Market, where the 15,000 square feet Living Green Pavilion officially kicks off a style and substance approach to creating, selling, and buying furniture.
In the Cebu scene, eco-friendly manufacturer Nature's Legacy leads the charge in green furniture, with products that are made from cast-off leaves and twigs (sold under the brand name Nature's Cast). The manufacturing process involves the employment of local...(read more)
August 08, 2007 | Filed under: Material Features
Lit From Within
As a kid, you probably thought of getting yourself one of those well-defined ant colonies in one of those transparent boxes.
Socially organized insects have always been fascinating; they've stirred up mystery and amusement, strangely reminding us of ourselves, speaking to each other and hoarding food, following zigzagged footpaths in a vast network of roads and silent hierarchies.
Clayton Tugonon's lamps take you back to your childhood, to a state of curiosity and wonder. They give you a sense of the nooks and crannies you haven't seen, of places you haven't discovered. Some rough and squat and some nearly two meters tall, these lamps made from termite mounds send out a surreal light from their irregular hollows. They rise above the ground, remnants of a magnificent ecosystem with a complex social structure. A society that relies on "swarm intelligence"�that instinctive force that allows the masses to move...(read more)
