A new start up company founded by Barent Roth and Chris Graff.
Using renewable energy to locally convert single use plastic into well designed products.
Created by Anthropocene.Design’s winning
entry in the NYC Curb to Market Challenge.
100% Circular Beauty and Wellness Brand
January 2021 Launch
Anthropocene.Design LLC collaborated in the design of these reusable packages and reusable shipping container (not pictured).
A non-profit organization creating Design Solutions for Public Problems
Autodesk University presentation
Products have been designed as if resources are unlimited. The take, bake, make, waste approach has valuable materials, erroneously called waste, landfilled. We need to design products so that these resources loop back into a material cycle. This closed loop approach recognizes natural limits and values materials through the end of their first product life and instead designs products for a Circular Economy.
This presentation contextualized the crisis our current system created, then shared case studies that illustrated both environmental and economic advantages gained by businesses with cyclical material flows. The session concluded with a first hand account inside the Circular Economy design process, as Barent shared insights into how he used AutoDesk’s Fusion 360 software to develop his award winning BikeShare Helmet.
A simple unisex style bike helmet designed specifically to integrate with the growing bike share community.
The BikeShare Helmet uses a recycled aluminum foam shell and a sustainably grown FSC certified cork liner to provide maximum protection with minimal bulk and weight while ensuring all materials are either recycled or composted. Designed as a Product Service System the helmet can be purchased as a recommended upgrade to existing annual bike share memberships.
Winner - Best Professional Project
Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge
Press
Core77 @Core77
Using Cradle to Cradle to Eliminate the Concept of Waste by Alexandra Alexa
Engineering.com @ENGINEERINGcom
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Autodesk Announce 2015 Design Competition Winners by Kyle Maxey
Circulate @circulatenews
Circular Economy & Food, Cradle to Cradle Design Challenge, The End of Bitcoin by Joe Iles @joeiles
Triple Pundit @TriplePundit
These Cradle-to-Cradle Innovations Will Make You Look Twice by Mary Mazzoni @mary_mazzoni
Sustainable Manufacturer Network @GreenManufacts
Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge winners light path to circular economy by Staff
Bustler @bustlernet
Cradle to Cradle announces winners of second Product Design Challenge by Justine Testado
Sustainable Brands @SustainBrands
Cradle to Cradle Design Challenge Winners Provide Practical Everyday Solutions by Hannah Furlong @ebsmartdesign
NextCity.org @NextCityOrg
This Bus Seat Design Offers a More Sustainable Ride by Kelsey E. Thomas @kelseyethomas
Empowering citizen scientists to track and together prevent marine pollution.
The TestingOurWaters.Net project offers a multi-pronged, design centered approach to reducing the accumulation of plastics in local waterways and international oceans through active community engagement and policy change. We will be designing, aggregating, and hopefully inspiring the creation of Do It Yourself (DIY) trawls for citizen scientists to make and use in their nearby marine environments. A trawl is simply a floating device that TOWs a Net through the water. Pollution collected in the trawls will be documented via a smartphone application and uploaded to a website platform. Results will build an online engaged community, regularly notify environmental stewards of the problem, and propose policy changes.
We are collaborating with 5Gyres and NyNjBayKeeper and have been awarded grant funding from the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School and the Autodesk Foundation.
In collaboration with:
grant funding provided by:
The New School - Tishman Environment and Design Center
Project Resources:
Made from 100% Post Consumer Recycled PETE.
Designed for businesses that ship items back and forth within their facility or supply chain. Reusing containers is better environmentally and more profitable.
Patented recycled plastic pillow interior cushioning system accommodates a variety of shapes and sizes and can be reused repeatedly.
Exterior Top and Bottom Shells made from identical components.
Benefits over Cardboard:
• Reusable / returnable – multiple uses
• Less expensive than cardboard on cost-per-trip basis
• Easy to clean
• Stackable, nestable design
• Cleaner than cardboard (no paper dust)
• More sanitary than cardboard
• Material is waterproof
• 100% Recyclable
Designed with fellow grow-design co-founder and co-principal Anthony Guido.
© grow-design
Designed for Innovation2Industry
A presentation for The New Schools Tishman Environment Design Center (TEDC) inaugural Skills Lab.
#PlantPositive
Preventing the Climate Change by avoiding its single greatest cause: Animal Agriculture. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's) are environmental disasters but any consumption high on the food chain exacerbates resource depletion and exponentially magnifies global warming. This skills lab examined the ecological problems created by continuing to produce animals for food as well as the healthy delicious solutions by alternatively eating plant based meals.
Presentation for Parsons, Sustainable Systems course, The New School's mandatory first year primer. Given during the all class boat trip around lower Manhattan and into Newtown Creek.
Sources:
SustainableWorks.org textbook for the Green Living Workshop
Educates and Tracks Environmental Improvements over 6 weeks
Led complete revision and update with other staff and volunteers
Over 280 pages that break the Environmental Issues into the following categories:
• Water
• Energy
• Waste
• Chemicals
• Transportation
• Shopping & Food
Each Topic discusses Problems and Solutions in a Workbook format.
Includes a Sustainability Survey that participants use to quantify their personal improvements in each environmental topic area.
Member of the Climate Ribbon Project Design Team for the UN's COP21 Climate Change talks in Paris 2015. Assisted in the design development of the various Climate Ribbon exhibitions in Paris and organized a New York City Climate Ribbon collection following the Paris attacks.
The Climate Ribbon is an art ritual that attempts to humanize the Climate Change problem by asking participants to write a response to the following question on a ribbon-
"What Do You Love and Hope to Never Lose to Climate Chaos?"
Collected Climate Ribbons from citizens during the November 2015 New York City Climate Change protest, all organized after the Paris terrorist attacks. These ribbons were then sent to Paris and added to other ribbons displayed on the Climate Ribbon "Tree of Life" exhibited throughout the UN COP21 talks in Paris.
Modular Solar Energy Collecting Phytoremediation Greenhouse Service System
Designed with fellow grow-design co-founder and co-principal Anthony Guido.
© grow-design
Largest Climate Change Protest in History
400,000 Marched in NYC on September 21, 2014
Wearable Plant Timepiece
Designed with Heather Hilsinger
EPA Packaging Cradle to Cradle Innovation Award Winner
Biodegradable Corn Based Foam Package
Protective Shipping Material Becomes the Box
Shipper crushes BioPAK protrusions to secure object and ensure fit
Designed with fellow grow-design co-founder and co-principal Anthony Guido.
© grow-design
The following objects have been granted patents. They were designed in collaboration with various other designers.
Patent number: 8061522
Patent number: 8047378
Patent number: D469577
Patent number: D474541
Patent number: D475460
Patent number: D475784
Patent number: D476420
