Nir Meiri’s Marine Light is a Sustainable Seaweed Lamp You Can Eat

Click to view slideshow. Tel Aviv’s Nir Meiri recently unveiled Marine Light – a curious lamp shade made entirely of seaweed wrapped around a spindly metal frame. Eaten by coastal people all over the world and prized for its gelatinous and nutritional properties (see bottled algae superfood), and its use is being investigated for seaweed as biofuel, marine algae is harvested for everything from dental moulds and wound dressings to deserts. But we’ve never seen a seaweed lamp shade before. “Ancient cultures have appreciated and utilized seaweeds for different uses,” Meiri says on …

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Nir Meiri’s Marine Light is a Sustainable Seaweed Lamp You Can Eat

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