http://www.eccellence-goods.com Eccellence at DMY Design Festival Berlin June 03 - 07 2009 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:11:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Eccellence show is on! Special thanks go to Will  for making the Eccellence Barns construction within one day. Will your are awesome! A great thank you for: Elizabeth Hardee for the product drawings and exhibition order Johannes Krempl from Glow for all communication: www.glow-berlin.de http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=154 Barns wallpaper is the world’s first environmentally optimised wallpaper, designed in Berlin especially for the Eccellence show. Barns is inspired by the farms of our grandparents. The knowledge of growing crop, using the old farming mentality of not creating waste, living in independent coherent communities and self-supportive structures formed the ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=139 Category: Green Electronics Product: PDA/Navigator 6210 Company: Nokia Sustainability Information From the entire first placed ranked products in the Greenpeace Green Electronics Survey, Nokia was the only company willing to participate in the Eccellence Sustainability Show. This shows the openness of Nokia in communicating its sustainability performance, thanks! Nokia’s 6210 Navigator secures the ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=135 Category: Solar Energy Product: Solar cooker Model K14 Company: Magictech Sustainability Information Based upon mirrors collecting solar energy and aiming these to the middle of the cooker, heat is generated to boil water and to cook meals. This product has been of great relevance in developing countries, enabling to cook meals without ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=124 Category: Energy Efficiency Product: Vacuum Cleaner DC24 Ball Company: Dyson Sustainability Information Within the framework of the Europe-wide Top Ten Study on energy efficient products, in the category “Vacuum Cleaners”, the product DC24 ball by Dyson ranks on the first spot. The electricity costs over 10 years were by far the lowest: ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=117 Category: Cradle-to-Cradle Product: Mirra Company: Herman Miller Herman Miller has several cradle to cradle certified product lines, making them a front runner within the field of environmental-intelligent design. During the show we are happy to present Mirra which was developed by Studio 7.5, a Berlin based design firm. The Mirra chair adheres ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=96 Cradle to Cradle Design Principles After more than 20 years of pioneering and developing ground-breaking products in cooperation with corporations, the Cradle to Cradle Design Principles - developed by Michael Braungart and William McDonough – are on their way in becoming mainstream. Besides up to 150 optimised products, the ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=15 Green electronics Our digital lifestyle is providing us with a vast amount of electronic waste, which is causing many problems from an environmental point of view as many hazardous materials are used in electronic devices. Over the years Greenpeace has monitored the performance of electronics made by leading manufacturers. The ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=13 Energy Efficiency In our digital, electronics and flexibility dominated lifestyle little attention is paid on purchasing energy efficient products, however for example almost a half of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions actually come from energy used every day - at home and when we travel. To generate that energy, ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=11 Solar products Ultimately using products which make direct use of renewable energy are the best solution on generating climate neutral energy and to gradually minimise our dependency on fossil and nuclear fuels. Therefore Eccellence chose to focus on solar based products. Solar based products use the sun as energy ... http://www.eccellence-goods.com/?p=9