Reggie van der Ven

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Lease a jeans

Mud Jeans creates since 2008 sustainable jeans by biological materials and fair-trade. They produce fashion with respect for people and the environment. They are members of trade bodies like Max Havelaar, GOTS, BSCI and MVO Netherlands.

What is it? Lease a Jeans is a fashion concept where fashion is not only affordable, but also makes truly sustainable. The jeans are made from organic and recycled cotton and is 100% produced responsibly. The jeans are available for male and female. The manufacturer makes it another new jeans when the Mud Jeans is returned by the carrier. They use recycled materials such as organic cotton, recycled PET bottles. Not only the jeans are sustainable. Even the packing is recycled and the tickets to the clothing are made of remaining organic cotton the production of. They are recycled and printed with ecological ink.

Why is it cool? Now anyone can worry a sustainable jeans lease for a flat, low monthly rate. So sustainable fashion is affordable for everyone. Sustainable is important for the world and the global worming. The design is already taken into account that the jeans is fully recyclable. It takes less cotton as Mud Jeans organic cotton pants jeans is made new again. Mud jeans response to the increasing scarcity of resources, they forming a booster for the circular economy, based on the reuse of raw materials.

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Lease a jeans started since January 2013 in the Netherlands. http://www.mudjeans.nl/nl/shop/lease.a.jeans/

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Hello, may I order a robot?

Smart Robotics is the agency of the future, rather than manpower they provide robots. Modular robots that can perform specific tasks. Smart Robotics' because the owners Heico Sandee and Mark Statementing both have years of experience in the industry and strive to collaborate with developers who have obtained their PhD. The company has a growing need for flexible robotics arrested within the industry. Current robots are programmed for a specific task, they are smarter and more efficient because they are aware of their surroundings. In addition, they strive to be cheaper than outsourcing to low-wage countries. Smart Robotics is located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven.

Why it's cool? Smart Robotics is not a common business for the average American, the company works with companies who are looking for more efficient robots then what we know now. Ultimately, this makes the life of the average American a piece easily or quickly. There is a growing need for flexibility, as well as robots. They are after all the manpower of the future. Therefore, the company has potential for the future. They are a leader in the field of smart, flexible and relatively cheaper robots. The digitization or the second machine age, the long-term trend that lies above. http://smart-robotics.nl

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LED lit lettuce

What it is

Family business Deliscious supplies three kinds of root ball lettuce all year round. In their unique cultivation system-using LED lit climate chambers, they grow delicious root ball lettuce from seed. From planting the seed to packaging the lettuce: everything is done in their own greenhouse complex in Central Limburg. By the right combination between the colours is it possible to create spring all year long. Quality and sustainability are their number one priority.-

Why it is Cool

Deliscious uses a new ‘economic system’ to produce sustainable food. It is sustainable farming using technology. By using technology they have spring all year long, which means always the same production and earnings. Thereby they don’t need pesticides and they use less water because it’s an organised system. And of course they work with solar energy. So it is cheaper to produce and it’s a business with eyes for tomorrow. -

Why it has Future Growth Potential

The society is in a transition phase and I think we all need systems that use technology for a sustainable future. We need to feed the growing population with less damage for the planet. This is a business example which produces food in a new way.  And it’s an example for other farmers how they can make their business future proof.

http://www.deliscious.eu 

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Fight against packaging

Plastic, plastic is trough the eyes of many people the best, easiest and the most normal way to transport/packaging things.

Plastic, plastic is polluting the ocean and our environment! Some of us do not see the problem others just do not know there is a problem or in the worst case they do not care. Luckily some of us see the problem and are taking action. I am the one seeing the problem and want to make more people aware to this. 

There are organizations which are trying to reduce the plastic pollution. One of them is Plastic Soup Foundation. There are also companies which are working on a challenge for people to think about possibilities, for example  Enviu. Chappeau!  

Still there are some facts I can not do anything about. What is bothering me the most is the plastic waste in supermarkets en shops. I do not want a plastic back for my fruits and I do not want my shampoo in a plastic bottle.  I red about the first packaging free 'supermarket' in Holland named Bag&Buy (crowd fundings phase). It is not only about recycling also about precycling (bringing your own packaging)! Yes! This is a really good begin to fight the plastics in my opinion! But there is more! I am really happy to see some 'initiatives' share my opinion. The water blob for example, is a membrane filled with water. Replacement of the plastic bottle. (one of the designers speaking) I think this is a good begin, but not the most working way to transport your water without plastic.  What me actually triggered writing this post is this video. The sound and perspective of filming is kind of scary but very cool! When I saw this I realized there were no packaging in the 'bathroom'. Made me think about the way we are using bottles, especially plastics. I hope you are a little bit (more) aware of using plastics and the way we pollute our environment with it.  

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“VEGETABLES ARE A MUST ON A DIET. I SUGGEST CARROT CAKE, ZUCCHINI BREAD AND PUMPKIN PIE.”

Jim Davis

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Print with love

This project got my attention, because of the passion and good will of ‘The Impossible Labs’ and the impact to someone’s life.  So I decide to read more about this. The project were I’m talking about is ‘Project Daniel’. Project Daniel uses 3D printers to make prosthetic arms for children of war in South Sudan.

There have young children lost their arms in a war situation. The project want to give the children hope and independence back, and make their life worth it again. The Impossible Labs made worlds first prosthetic lab and they also have a training facility. The most beautiful thing for me is to see how easy it is with a 3Dprinter/ technology to make people happy and have their lives back. So technology impove Quality of Life even in South Sudan. This brings the children, in my opinion back to reality, be part of the society. They can play again, eat again, they don’t have the feeling to be a bother for the family. I wish I had enough skills to do one’s bit. Projects like this contribute my perfect world, because they improve peoples life.

  Read more: 

http://media.wix.com/ugd/9bcbad_b72353cd3bed48f49391924d4a7448a9.pdf

http://www.bright.nl/3d-geprinte-kunstarm-redding-voor-oorlogsslachtoffer

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Thanks fridge!

Nowadays the people want more time for themselves, so LG made the possibility to communicate with your fridge and other appliances. The appliances send you a message to inform you for example which products are still needed to make a meal. Done through a special made HomeChat called LINE.

In my opinion this is very usable in every household because there is another brain inside the house. This brain will think for people so they have more time left to do things they want to do. Especially in families with young children is the free time for the parents minuscule. The smarter becoming devices shall give some peace and quiet in people their minds, which will stimulate the usefulness of free time. And on the other hand, this will save waste products. People like the urban nomands, which are always on the go have profit with this concept.

I think all our appliances are very usefull and were used to a great innovation, but it is time for a new innovation with a sustainable nature. LG Homechat is much better for the environment and it fulfills all sustainable world. So check, this is mine in my future home.

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Pyjama

What is that about the pyjama? Why is there suddenly a pyjamaday? I used to had many of them, ok I still have.. But that's not because of this 'trend'. Taking time for myself is the most important time for me to be shiny every day. Is the pyjama day because we recognize we passed ourselves? I think we're going to a century of awareness and in that century is your mood your dresscode. 

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Pureness

There is nothing as beautiful as your natural beauty! Yesterday I visited 'De Zwaluwhoeve' a wellness and beauty resort. There I realized how beautiful everybody just by themselves are. When you're naked nobody can judge you by clothes or makeup. But it's even more visible how fat people nowadays are. And that's still a judgement. Then I caught myself by a judgement. I learned by myself how easy it is to get a picture of someone, but that's not fair because everybody has the same base. Beauty is from the inside, not the outside. 

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Flying houses

Last week I visited Biodesign in Rotterdam, it's a exhibition on the Cross-Pollination of nature, science an creativity. There i saw the Eco-Pods. And I immediately thought, this would maybe be the housing of the future.

This is a stalled construction project, thats hard because the idea is so good. The objectives of this proposal are to stimulate the local economy and ecology of Boston through the integration of energy production and architecture. The modules can be used as incubators in which grow algae for biofuel. And that's the good thing about it, it's ecological. Why couldn't we live in these 'boxes'? They're flexible and green. That's what we want from our houses. Isn't it possible to make a network of this in each city, so you can move you're house to every place you want. Make an application for this and you're house will be 'delivered'.  

Down here a video 

http://vimeo.com/28145969 

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Textile out of context

Matija Čop performed as a student of fashion design, made a fashion architecture collection. It has to look like a church, built of stones. It feels like stones, but it doesn't look like that feeling.

Camilla Wordie made a chocolate collection, which isn't made of chocolate but only looks like it is. 

Through the digitalization we become more dependent on technology. We, nowadays people, are just one with our electronics. We lost the real touch, which stimulates our senses. The experiment with unexpected materials stimulates our senses again. Hereby there's real contact with our products.

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Fusion of technology and traditional

Valissa Butterworth made the porcelain collection 'The Mod Collective’s'. This is a mix between handmade and designed by a 3D printer. The colors are designed by the 3D printer and the porcelain is hand moulded. Every peace is made in her studio, but the color isn't. Okey now some pictures, to show how beautiful this collection is. 

In my opinion the 3D Printer is a danger for all authentic crafts. The 3D printer doesn't make any mistakes and everything is forethought and that's a form of imperfection for me. The visible human touch is perfection for me. But this collection is different and that's why my mind is stimulated to think about this again. The fusion between technology and traditional is interesting. This woman showed me the beauty of the fusion. 

More of her work: http://themodcollective.com.au/  

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Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler

Albert Einstein

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Eat my dress

Last week I visited 'De Culinaire Werkplaats' in Amsterdam. I had a conversation with one of the owners and she showed me one of her projects. It was the edible dress made of rhubarb.

It's part of 'Taste the Unwearable's'. It's brilliant in my opinion! It's about temporality of fashion. Also a reaction to the consumption society, which is fast and growing and not standing still by the cradle to cradle principle. How cool would it be if you can eat your dress at the end of the day so you didn't waste anything. 

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Ashlee Wells Jackson is making a photo seri of woman who became mother. Their bodies are not what it used to be. But her work is stopped, because some people think it's not aloud what she wants to tell. But I am! On internet everything is perfect, Facebook, photo's etc. But life isn't that perfect, especially your body after pregnancy. It's so natural what she wants to do. I think she is doing something good, and make people realize that it's not normal or perfect to be in shape in two weeks. Imperfection is perfection! 

Down here the link of her idea behind the pictures:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XMAAmRKZrc

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Copper, you're worth it

Lately I see more and more coper. In interiors accessories such as lamps, pots, chandeliers and lots more.  

It's industrial and gives products a exclusive look. In times of crisis it's not obvious to work with materials like copper because it's very expensive. I think the people are crisis tired. ....

Copper is raw and minimalist, I can't get enough of it.   

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Oahh, blissful! ... and get on