A landfill that only buries 25% of its waste by Kirsten Dirksen on May 30, 2009 Sending all of our garbage- from construction to garden waste- to landfills may be a thing of the past. In …
How to build furniture from used chopsticks by Kirsten Dirksen on May 30, 2009 How many chopsticks get wasted every day in your city? That was the question Barcelona-based designers Loida and Hernâni of …
Black gold: high rent worm composting by Kirsten Dirksen on May 27, 2009 The Romans used worms to compost over 2,000 years ago and 100 years ago Charles Darwin held composting worms in …
SuChin changes a flushable diaper by Kirsten Dirksen on May 27, 2009 In this video, faircompanies collaborator SuChin Pak helps change the faircompanies baby, kind of. She lends one finger to help …
Where used clothing is about germs and dead people by Kirsten Dirksen on January 26, 2009 There are repair shops so specialized in Barcelona that you’d think no one would ever trash anything. Besides clocks, clothes, …
Breaking the disposable diaper size barrier by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2008 It was a mistake… someone dropped off some size 2 (12-18 lbs) diapers for our “officially” sized 4 (22- 37 …
Diaper wars: cloth vs disposable & now flushables and EC by Kirsten Dirksen on October 30, 2006 Endless rows of diapers on our backyard clothesline were a staple of my childhood. Being the ’70s to the early …
