Big Ideas for a Small Planet (2007) - 1x07 - Furnish

Furniture company Herman Miller’s engineers Scott Charon and Gabe Wing explore green design as the leaders of the Design for the Environment team, developing sustainable concepts as the company strives to make all new lines of furniture 100% sustainable by the year 2020; Scrapile furniture designers Carlos Salgado and Bart Bettencourt scour their neighborhood for leftover scrap wood and then head back to their studio to cut, glue and sand the pieces into sleek recycled furniture; Jaime and Isaac Salm, owners of the Philadelphia-based design firm MIO, prove that it’s possible to live in “green style” without breaking the bank with their innovative home-product designs.

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