Photo: Chris Kendall via The New York Times

Gleaming like arboreal wayfinders on a dark night, birches are trees that definitely stand out from the forest crowd.

All photos: Reuseit.com

Three years ago we ran a piece on ReusableBags.com and their cloth shopping tote bag.

Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants.

Sabine at Mocoloco shows an interesting bookcase system designed by Daniel Gafner of Postfossil. It is essentially made of plywood boxes held together by standard binder clips, which is clever enough.

Maybe not as radical as square watermelons, but still quite progressive is Andrew Kim's square Coke bottle design. It definitely raised the question whether or not all bottles and containers should be square from an environmental point of view.

PSFK shows us Pocket Wall, a storage system from Polish Designer Maja Ganszyniec. She describes it:

Look at the house as if it were a package: the room is like a package and the wallpaper is like wrapping paper.

Freefold Furniture is, as the above video indicates, a versatile shelving system. But the system can also serves as partition, screen, plinth or bench.

Alessi has just launched a new product by Spanish designer Martí Guixé; the Seed Safe. It is a beautiful jar, dedicated to collect the seeds from vegetables and fruits we eat so that they can be planted instead of thrown away or composted.

Photo: Bonobo

Yoink is new software that gives a triple scoop of that tasty treat: Free. It is a free iPhone application, which provides a free service geographically linking people who want to give away free stuff with those who want it.

Think of it as Freecycle in your pocket.