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keep cup

Thanks to Sense Worldwide and the Quiet Riot for inviting us along to their sustainable design talks last night. The atmosphere, speakers and beers were great.  

One product stuck out as a simple and clever piece of innovation that's on a mission to change consumer behaviour for the better. It’s one of those, ‘why didn’t I think of that’ ideas.

Keep Cup is simply a coffee cup you keep and re-use again and again whenever you pop into Starbucks. We chuck away a scary number of paper cups every day and not one of them gets recycled, not one. This little cup reduces landfill, CO2 and saves trees.

If that’s not enough, Starbucks even give you 25p for saving them a cup. Pretty nifty.

happy hannibal halloween

Spotted by Dan via this wonderful place

satisfaction

We recently faced a whole 9 minutes to wait for a train at Richmond. When you're used to instant tubes, waiting for overland trains seems to take forever. That got us thinking about the customer satisfaction treadmill:

The more we make, The more we spend, The more we want, The faster we get it, The faster we want it, The more convenient it becomes, The more we realise just how convenient it could be, The more our unreasonable demands are met, The more unreasonable our demands become.

While we were contemplating our unreasonable demand for instant public transport, we found a refreshing brand to fill our 9 minute gap. Family owned Puccino's kept us warm with tasty lattes and entertained with its quirky sense of humour printed all over its sugars and cups.

extreme knitting

It's not often that knitting makes us speechless. In fact it's never made us speechless, until now.

The colours, the quirkiness, the cosiness and the downright randomness make us love this Mexican bus. If anyone feels like making a London bus equivalent, please be our guests. Great spot by Jem via Yarn Bombing

all you need is glove

Now here's a cleverly creative idea helping save our planet, one glove at a time. The team at Glove Love take in abandoned lonely single gloves that have lost their original partner. After some cleaning and sewing TLC they're paired up, giving them a new lease of life. The result is a never-ending supply of one-of-a-kind sustainable winter warmers that live happily ever after. Ah, that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.