Ecological Misson

Eco1stArt.com is a website featuring the most stunning eco friendly items on the planet. Inspired by Jane Goodall, Ed Begley Jr., Pierce Brosnan, Jim Belushi etc. to only present recycled and sustainable fine art, furniture, jewelry and apparel. This website is intended for the Green Movement and efficient uses of our resources, for the artist to sell their work - thus income, and philanthropic donations to help save the world. It is a social commentary, highlighting our disposable mentality towards objects - trying to make efficient use of our resources - which are not infinite.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Benefits of Recycling

Direct from the EPA:
Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb or to a collection facility is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social returns. Some of these benefits accrue locally as well as globally.

Benefits of Recycling
  • Recycling protects and expands U.S. manufacturing jobs and increases U.S. competitiveness.
  • Recycling reduces the need for landfilling and incineration.
  • Recycling prevents pollution caused by the manufacturing of products from virgin materials.
  • Recycling saves energy.
  • Recycling decreases emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.
  • Recycling conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals.
  • Recycling helps sustain the environment for future generations.

 Steps to Recycling a Product


Recycling includes collecting recyclable materials that would otherwise be considered waste, sorting and processing recyclables into raw materials such as fibers, manufacturing raw materials into new products, and purchasing recycled products.  Collecting and processing secondary materials, manufacturing recycled-content products, and then buying recycled products creates a circle or loop that ensures the overall success and value of recycling.

Step 1. Collection and Processing

Collecting recyclables varies from community to community, but there are four primary methods: curbside, drop-off centers, buy-back centers, and deposit/refund programs.  Regardless of the method used to collect the recyclables, the next leg of their journey is usually the same. Recyclables are sent to a materials recovery facility to be sorted and prepared into marketable commodities for manufacturing. Recyclables are bought and sold just like any other commodity, and prices for the materials change and fluctuate with the market.




Daisy Lamp and Lampshade by Sarah Turner
Step 2. Manufacturing
Once cleaned and separated, the recyclables are ready to undergo the second part of the recycling loop. More and more of today's products are being manufactured with total or partial recycled content. Common household items that contain recycled materials include newspapers and paper towels; aluminum, plastic, and glass soft drink containers; steel cans; and plastic laundry detergent bottles. Recycled materials also are used in innovative applications such as recovered glass in roadway asphalt (glassphalt) or recovered plastic in carpeting, park benches, and pedestrian bridges.


Step 3. Purchasing Recycled Products
Purchasing recycled products completes the recycling loop. By "buying recycled," governments, as well as businesses and individual consumers, each play an important role in making the recycling process a success. As consumers demand more environmentally sound products, manufacturers will continue to meet that demand by producing high-quality recycled products. Learn more about recycling terminology and to find tips on identifying recycled products.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

AF Designs Andrea Felice

Creating unique handcrafted furniture designs prominently featured in idfx Magazine.

Rovi Cabinet as featured by idfx Magazine

Rovi Cabinet is a very minimal and elegant aluminum cabinet. Branches weave through the cabinet's structure - in doing so become one with it. But Rovi's has thorns -making the handles seem almost inaccessible. This playfully reverses our relationship with a piece of fine furniture. You are at risk ... rather than having to be careful of how you handle or open a more delicate piece of furniture. Purchase the Rovi Cabinet at Eco1stArt.com.


Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Ola Voyna Hot New Artist


Calumet Couch by Ola Voyna


A very cosy couch with a shape that typifies the Ola Voyna commitment to innovation and originality with a unique wrought structure that gives the Calumet the unmatched durability that is an essential part of the design process of all our pieces. It is painted black with a partial, delicate covering of copper plating. 



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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Featured Artist: Marla Kunselman

Seaside Palms Necklace by Marla Kunselman
Marla Kunselman has been creating one-of-a-kind jewelry out of someone else’s trash for over 10 years. She scours the beaches - picking up baubles and treasures that have washed ashore… and kayaks to spots others can’t get to around the New England coast for her bounty. Marla "cleans" beaches as she beach combs - picking up debris that has polluted water ways and shorelines - trash man has left behind. She is the "trash remover" of the shore and it's her way of giving back to the earth.

Recycling or “up-cycling” fragments of glass and pottery, that has been drifting along the oceans floor for many years, into eclectic adornments for the body is her passion. She also uses recycled sterling silver when possible and incorporates many natural elements into her pieces
as well.

All designs are handmade, original works of art and true heirloom pieces representing a sliver of history that can be passed on to many generations. All pottery and glass has been naturally tumbled by the surf and sand – straight from the beach to you!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

The Green Front

Verdigris LLC Newsletter August 2010
Birds Eye Bed by Ben Caldwell


All of us at Verdigris LLC would like to offer special thanks for the outstanding responses from our highly talented and innovative artists and supporters of the Green Community.  Several hundred artists have submitted their creations to Eco1stArt.com with hundreds of new submissions flooding in daily. The creations submitted are extraordinary and we work with each individual artist to ensure maximum exposure of only the most stunning ecologically innovative items.

Oval Coffee Table by Tucker Robbins


Accepting International submissions means that the staff at Eco1start.com has undertaken the time consuming efforts of dimension conversions, language conversions, photo conversions and currency conversions, all of which delayed the launch of Eco1stArt.com. We are working around the clock because we feel it is important to keep a time schedule as well as give our customers International Green Choices for their lives.  It is the collaboration and the celebration of the green movement that we will all make a difference in our world.



The Green Front

Last year there was a massive brush fire in Santa Barbara known as The Tea Fire.  Up from the ashes arose the Sunset® Breezehouse™, a unique contemporary home.


Sunset® Breezehouse™

Brian Andreas and Ellen Rockne generously offered their home as a place to inspire and celebrate the first LEED certified home in Santa Barbara. It is set in the foothills with 180-degree ocean views. The home incorporated all elements of the green building hierarchy - it protects and restores the site's natural features, conserves water, is energy efficient, has improved indoor air quality, and uses resources and materials wisely.

Sunset® Breezehouse™
The concrete floors have radiant heating that keep the home comfortable year round.
Large, energy efficient windows allow cooling breezes and abundant natural light into the home. Green building nurtures the environment locally and globally today and well into the future using less energy, water, and resources in both the construction and operation of your building. It keeps demolition and construction waste out of our landfills.

Sunset® Breezehouse™


San Francisco architect Michelle Kaufmann of MichelleKaufmann.com, designed the steel and wood structure using modular building blocks. Innovative landscaping by Grace Design Associates, Inc., GraceDesignAssociates.com, frames the house with an elegant natural setting.  Not surprisingly, there was no eco-friendly furniture or lighting because the owner said that he could not find anything.


Bar Table by Eyal On
Eco1start.com is a site for Architects, Interior Designers, and Clients wanting to live in a sustainable manner to find the best of eco-friendly furniture, art, lighting, accessories, clothing and jewelry designed for longevity, flexibility, and living beautifully.They will find the most beautiful pieces on the planet to make their lives richer and more meaningful as well as protect its planet.  Each piece designed and built for longevity, flexibility, and living a beautiful, joyful, sustainable life.






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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Artists Pushing the Green Movement Forward

All of us at Verdigris LLC would like to offer special thanks for the outstanding responses from our highly-talented and innovative artists and supporters of the Green Community. Several hundred artists have submitted their creations to Eco1stArt.com with hundreds of new submissions flooding in daily. While much of the work submitted is extraordinary we work with each individual artist to ensure maximum exposure of the most stunning ecologically innovative items. Be sure to sign up for the Verdigris LLC Newsletter and stay informed of upcoming events and launch dates.

This paragraph originally published Copyright April 2010 at www.Eco1stArt.com and duplicated with express permission of Verdigris LLC. 





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Moving The Green Movement Into Art

Eco1stArt.com is a website featuring the most stunning eco friendly items on the planet. Inspired by Jane Goodall, Ed Begley Jr., Pierce Brosnan, Jim Belushi etc. to only present recycled and sustainable fine art, furniture, jewelry and apparel. This website is intended for the Green Movement and efficient uses of our resources, for the artist to sell their work - thus income, and philanthropic donations to help save the world. It is a social commentary, highlighting our disposable mentality towards objects - trying to make efficient use of our resources - which are not infinite.



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Friday, July 9, 2010

Featured Artist: Robert Cannon Sculptor


Eco1stArt.com is proud to present Robert Cannon sculptor.  All pieces are hand-built of sturdy ferro cement shells, earth, and plants.  No pieces are cast, each piece is built to custom specifications. 
Female Armored Torso
 I feel strongly that the Green Movement needs real Green Art to transmit it messages and dreams, its not only up to the engineers, architects,  and activists but also up to the artists.