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

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 basis of a sustainable society.

Barns wallpaper symbolises past rural farming, which has been eroded by our consumption oriented, individualism driven, non-locally sourced and flexibility focussed society.

Barns wallpaper calls on us to develop a new sustainable blueprint by learning from our roots.

Barns contains paper certified according to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Barns colour scheme applies only 4 defined pigments and a selected binder meeting our environmental criteria. Barns was produced without further chemical additions.

Barns is produced in Brandenburg, the paper is sourced from Saxony.

The chemical content of Barns was environmentally screened and optimised by Ralf Ketelhut from Stoffstromdesign. The designer would like to remain in the background.

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 first place in the category PDA / Navigator as it is PVC-free and shows the best score due to better energy efficiency and the product’s lifecycle.

Sources:

www.nokia.com

www.greenpeace.org

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/green-electronics-survey-2.pdf

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 the need to collect wood or to use often not present or expensive electricity or gas.

Sources: www.imbisssysteme.de

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Category: Solar Energy

Product: Magnesium hybrid solar charger

Company: Solio

Sustainability Information

Universal solar charger for electronic devices that also stores power. Highly suitable for outdoor adventurers due to the strong magnesium alloy shell

Collecting solar energy to power our digital lifestyle on the road sounds like a good idea by enabling us to gradually minimise our dependency on fossil and nuclear fuels.

A fully loaded Solio loads a typical mobile phone around 1,5 times or gives over 20 hrs of MP3 music – 1 hour sunshine gives 20min talk time or 50min MP3 music.

Source: www.solio.com

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Category: Solar Energy

Product: Camping LED light

Company: Solarc and Osram

Sustainability Information

The camping LED light developed by Solarc and Osram is an innovative and sustainable product.

Based upon solar energy and the care free “Golden Dragon” LED by Osram, the light can be used anywhere outdoor and indoor after charging in the sun. The life-time of the LED is app. 30.000 hrs. The solar loading device may also be used to charge our digital life-style electronic devices with the use of the sun.

Solarc is a Berlin based company.

Sources: www.solarc.com / www.osram.com

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Category: Solar Energy

Product: H1000 hybrid solar charger

Company: Solio

Sustainability Information

Universal solar charger for electronic devices that also stores power.

Collecting solar energy to power our digital lifestyle on the road sounds like a good idea by enabling us to gradually minimise our dependency on fossil and nuclear fuels.

A fully loaded Solio loads a typical mobile phone around 1 time or gives over 10 hrs of MP3 music – 1 hour sunshine gives 15min talk time or 40min MP3 music.

Source: www.solio.com

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Category: Solar

Product: Eyewear

Company: Butcher Couture

Sustainability Information

Butcher Couture offer a range of ‘All Over’ leather sunglasses with removable leather frame.

The sunglasses are handmade in France, using 100% vegetable tan leather (i.e. chrome free leather) and crafted with certified threads. The dyes used in the leathers are food aniline based (dyes used in food). Therefore low impact dyes.

Each pair is delivered in an untreated wooden crate style packaging box which is biodegradable, compostable and re-usable. Each pair is protected while in transit with FSC certified wood wool contained inside each wooden box.

Source: www.butchercouture.com

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Category: Solar Energy

Product: Sonnenstoff - beer made with solar energy

Company: Felsenbräu

Sustainability Information

Sonnenstoff is produced without applying fossil fuel based energy. For brewing the beer, energy is produced by using an own wood-fuelled and solar thermal power station and if required with eco-energy from “Natur Energie”. This saves app. 640 tonnes of CO2 emission yearly and making it Germany’s first solar brewery.

Furthermore all ingredients are locally sourced in Bavaria.

And it tastes great too!

Sources: www.sonnenstoff.com

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Category: Solar Energy

Product: Solar Bag

Company: Solarc

Sustainability Information

This solar bag enables you to load electronic devices as you are on your way, sounds very useful and practical.

Solarc is a Berlin based company.

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: 167 €. Furthermore, like all Dyson vacuum cleaners, the product does not need vacuum cleaning bags.

Source: www.dyson.com

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Category: Energy Efficiency

Product: Coffee Machine ENA 5

Company: Jura

Sustainability Information

Within the framework of the Europe-wide Top Ten Study, in the category “Coffee Machines”, the product ENA 5 by Jura ranks on the first spot. The electricity costs over 10 years were by far the lowest: 64 €. Furthermore, the machine consumes no energy in the stand-by mode. Three Jura products are in the coffee machine Top5 of the TopTen study, making it a leader within the field of energy efficient coffee machines.

Source: www.jura.com

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Category: Energy Efficiency

Product: Computer Monitor EV2411W

Company: Eizo

Sustainability Information

Within the framework of the Europe-wide Top Ten Study on energy efficient products, in the category “Computer Monitors 23 and more inches”, the product EV2411W by Eizo ranks on the first spot. The electricity costs over 5 years were by far the lowest: 16 €.

Eizo has 3 monitors in the Top5 of the study making it a leader in manufacturing energy efficient computer monitors.

Source: www.eizo.com

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 to the McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) Cradle to Cradle Design Protocol and is made of a minimal number of parts and is easily disassembled for recycling.

Source: www.hermanmiller.com

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Category: Cradle-to-Cradle

Product: Household and body care products

Company: Method

Method is a company dedicated to detox your home and body without using toxic chemical ingredients. Method household and body care products contain natural ingredients and do not contain parabens, phthalates or other nasty chemicals. Products are not tested on animals or people.

The packaging uses recycled content and is recyclable.

Method produces and designs according to Cradle to Cradles principles.

Source: www.methodproducts.com

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Category: Cradle-to-Cradle

Product: BARNS wallpaper

Company: Eccellence

Barns wallpaper is the world’s first environmentally optimised wallpaper following Cradle to Cradle principles.

Barns wallpaper contains paper certified according to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Barns colour scheme applies only 4 defined pigments meeting stringent environmental criteria.

All materials applied in the production were environmentally screened and optimised.

Barns is produced and sourced in Germany.

Link: www.eccellence-goods.com

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Category: Cradle-to-Cradle

Product: Planes Collection

Company: Haworth

The Planes conference room furniture collection has been designed according to Cradle to Cradle principles.

All of the products are made of 100% recycled tree fibre, MDI resin and with no added formaldehyde.

The collection has been designed so one person can easily create a new conference situation.

Source: www.haworth.com

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Category: Cradle-to-Cradle

Product: Embody

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 present Embody, a chair specifically designed for people working with computers.

The Embody chair adheres to the McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) Cradle to Cradle Design Protocol.

Recyclability: Embody is 95 percent recyclable, has 42 percent recycled content, and contains no PVCs.

Embody mimics the spine. The back is “alive,” adapting to the shape and movement of the spine; it automatically adjusts to shifting positions and supports through the full range of working postures.

Source: www.hermanmiller.com

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 Netherlands are on their way to adopt Cradle to Cradle design principles as a country.

Cradle to Cradle products are:

• designed for closing material loops, either biological or technical
• eliminated from chemicals causing human health and environmental hazards

The aim is to transform industry by creating products for cradle-to-cradle cycles, whose materials are circulated in closed loops. Maintaining materials in closed loops maximizes material value without damaging ecosystems. This catchy phrase summarises the logic: “Waste equals Food”. The core of the cradle to cradle principle is to positively define the material content of products aimed at eliminating human health and environmental hazards and enabling ecologically sound closed loops. In this “chemical” design process, products are “detoxified” by an assessment protocol.

If you have not heard of the methodology by now, it is about time to get familiar with the concept. Please go to the following links for more in depth information:

www.epea.com

www.mbdc.com

www.nutec.com

www.letscradle.nl

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 latest Green Electronics Survey focuses on four main topics:

• Use of hazardous chemical substances
• Energy use
• The Product lifecycle
• Environmental data availability on the product

The environmental standard of electronic products is improving, but no device scores well on all points yet. The race is still open to develop the ultimate green electronic product. To encourage you to reflect the environmental impact of electronics, Eccellence presents several electronics based upon the Greenpeace study.

www.greenpeace.org

www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/green-electronics-survey-2.pdf

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, we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) that produce greenhouse gases - in particular carbon dioxide (CO₂). Cars are a huge problem but the truth is that more CO₂ comes from the energy we use at home. The average UK household creates around 6 tonnes of CO₂ a year, and it’s that same CO₂ that’s changing our climate and damaging the environment.

Therefore using the most energy efficient products available sounds pretty cool.

The energy efficient products we selected for the show are based upon a Europe-wide research project: Topten. The Topten portal presently gives access to 13 national Topten websites and presents the ‘Best Products of Europe’:

A simple click gives access to a selection of the most energy efficient products, featuring pictures, functions, price and average energy costs.

It is possible to contribute, so inform yourself and think twice before purchasing electrical goods.

For more information on climate change and energy efficiency, please go to following sites:

www.topten.info

www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change

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 source. Especially in developing countries with limited electricity infrastructure using solar energy is really helpful.

We have chosen several portable solar based products for our flexible digital lifestyle and for cooking. Furthermore we found a beer produced by using solar energy and awesome ecologically correct sunglasses.

www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change

www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/