Taking a long, warm shower is relaxing, soothing, stress-relieving — and completely unnecessary. While our showers have become our sanctuaries at home, many of us fail to notice the gallons of water we waste each day on 30- to 45- minute showers that should only really take around 5 to 7 minutes. Elisabeth Buecher, a French textile designer based in London, noticed our excessive water consumption and decided to teach us all a lesson with what she calls, “design for pain and for our own good.”
The “My Shower Curtain is a …

Although my days of gorging on calorie-laden dorm foods are in the past, I have yet to lose my “Freshman 15,” which has resiliently remained with me throughout college.  Even worse, when I was actually able to afford a gym membership, I decided not to bother.  Now that I really need to work out, I’m conveniently unemployed and can’t afford to go to the gym, let alone pay for a non-happy hour priced drink.  Nevertheless, my determination to get in shape has pushed me to explore workout options outside of …

When printing a 20-page paper, it’s easy to forget about all of the ink you’re wasting since you’re busy feeling guilty about all the trees you’ve just killed. Well, EcoFont has come to the rescue.
SPRANQ, a Dutch marketing company based in Amsterdam, has developed an eco-friendly font aptly named EcoFont. It uses up to 20 percent less ink than normal fonts by creating holes in each letters. “After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well,” they joke on the EcoFont site.