Book a room and a local when in Berlin! A great set-up to connect guests with locals, and the room is made from reclaimed materials ;) Check out Plus One for more info.  

Pretty cool to visualise energy and water consumption plus CO2 emissions at all time in order to reduce them! Rulergy for Hotels… has anyone tried it?

Very cool infographic! “In the US, hotels create 1.9 billion lbs of waste each year, enough to fill 37 million suitcases” To see all the facts, visit the Do not disturb campaign!  

It seems our hotel idea is the new challenge, great!! We are definitely up for making the prefect social hotel come true! (Thanks Steve W. for the tip!)  

A nice idea to provide guests with a running route starting at the hotel… Via Monocle  

Would you be smiling or annoyed if you found this in your hotel shower? by Hu2 design  

Can I put this on the hotel’s entrance door?! Via The Real Art of Street Art  

Wow! Can we have one of these lamps? Barcelona does emit a lot of CO2 and is lacking some trees… is this a solution? This Micro-Algae Lamp Absorbs 150-200 Times More CO2 than a Tree!  

Photo by Zita Oberwalder for derStandard.at “Superfluous pomp and awkward hospitality are simply an unnecessary burden for modern travelers. In fact, what they really want is precisely the opposite: a fast and uncomplicated change of locations, an attractive hotel design and a […]

We need more green walls! Nice to see vertical gardens popping up in Barcelona, like the ones at Jean Nouvel’s Fábrica de Moritz, Skunkfunk and Replay’s store!  

It just occurred to me that if you could have Tyler Brûlé work with Victor Papanek, you might have gotten the perfect hotel design!

I love this fantastic flow-chart of what people really need by Victor Papenek (one of my gurus!) from his book Design for the Real World  

Here’s Petz’s view on eco-design and its role in Spain at the moment, as told to Monográfica magazine in 2011. Entrevista a Petz Scholtus from Monográfica.org on Vimeo.

Nice pot by Joan Rojeski that grows with your veggies, and it’s locally produced in Spain.  

Roca’s w+w sink and toilet in one saves water (but not space and materials!)… has anyone seen a more elegant and economic version of this?! 3000€ is a bit too pricey.