With the development of new technologies, people almost forgot the ecology that keeps them alive. But now, with a steady increase in environmental awareness, people are trying to shift to the usage of sustainable and green products in their households or working place. Environmentally friendly or simply eco-friendly do not harm the environment while their production, usage or even disposal. Your can also show your care for Mother Nature in the office you work by making use of green office products that are now easily available in market. Listed below are five such eco products for your office that can be easily implemented and will make a considerable difference over time.
1. Woven Newspaper Lampshade
Danny Seo is a leading lifestyle expert in America who frequently designs green and sustainable products like sheets, towels, bathmats etc. and also inspires people to live an eco-friendly life. He creates green products not only for house holds but also for offices and hotels so that the eco consciousness can be adopted by every person who encounters these sustainable products. The newspaper woven lampshade is a perfect example of re-using old newspapers, which are generally given for recycling, after they are read. Danny has made use of these old newspapers to create a beautiful lampshade. The news papers are tightly woven together and then used as a gorgeous lighting source in the Intercontinental Hotel in NYC. This lampshade designed creatively out of newspapers can match up with any colour scheme due to the neutral tone it carries of the newsprint. This artifact can prove out to be a great source of green inspiration if used in other commercial purposes like offices, shopping malls etc.
2. Knu Furniture
Knu is a 100% carbon-neutral online-only company that has emerged from the Industrial Woodworking Corporation (IWC). The IWC is a furnishing company that creates environment furniture for hospitals, homes and offices. Knu was launched by IWC in 2007 that creates contemporary and eco-friendly home desks, tables, shelving and storage furniture pieces and call them as “inanimate motion in crisp, sustainable form.” Knu furniture is designed by Bradford Davis who makes use of sustainably harvested wood material which is assembled with 40% recycled post-consumer waste stainless steel hardware. The product is manufactured in an energy efficient facility which is 100% carbon neutral. The above picture represents the sustainable dining table set designed by Knu.
3. Recycled drivers seat cum office chair
Javier Sanchez Merina, who is an architect himself and also an architectural design teacher at Alicante University in Spain, has created this incredible chair to which he calls Juliana Chair. To create this four-headed office chair he has used his architectural skills and also kept in mind the environmental consciousness. He bought BMW electrical seat from a junkyard at a very low price and simply by adding an articulated joint and a couple of wheels he created this office chair which can be configured in different ways, from all four side-by-side to two each face-to-face to a round table of sorts. The electric controls on each of the four seats make the user to adjust the seat according to his comfort. This creation is green, versatile and remarkable in a very extraordinary manner.
4. USB Eco Button
The USB Eco Button is a cool device that keeps a tab on your total power usage and along with that it gives you an update on your energy bills. This USB device is made of green plastic and when connected to the computer via USB it illuminates. Whenever you press the eco-button your computer is put to the ecomode which is the most efficient energy saving mode. The ecobutton saves your energy without the need of turning of your computer. You just need to press on the eco button and you will resume to the work where you left. The ecobutton software also monitors your carbon units and how much power and money you saved while using the ecomode.
5. Bamboo Flash Drive
Bamboo is a sustainable and eco-friendly material that has a long life span. And because of all that it is a great green substitute for various objects used in everyday life. But did you ever think that the durable and hardened bamboo can be used In offices to conceive your data and securely store it for many years to come? This new astonishing flash drive packs a 4 GB memory for your technical work in a beautiful and eco friendly bamboo stick rather than customized USB flash drives. Though the inner working of the drive is not made of bamboo, only the outer casing is and that is more than enough for a green symbol in your sustainable office.
