All-In-One Flow2 "Kitchen Composting Grow Station"

Saving your eggshells, coffee grounds, and other assorted veggie & fruit peel castoffs in a cute little kitchen collection bin is definitely a step in the right direction in terms of responsibly addressing waste management.

Some bury what they've amassed in the ground, they augment their growing compost pile with organic matter culled from the kitchen, or they even allow their worm farm to feast on the future black gold.

Oregon designers John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong of Studio Gorm thought beyond that common formula by attempting to create an all-in-one green kitchen zone.

Part of an exhibition called Call and Response, the Flow2 Kitchen is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Oregon until October 31, 2009.

Arndt and Jeong's reimagined culinary workspace enables users to convert organic scraps into black gold on the spot, and then use that matter to cultivate thriving plants in the center of the prep zone.

They have cleverly anchored a dish drying rack over the potted plants so that they will benefit from much needed H20 (as well as the home grown compost that the user can move from their collection container to the potted plants in the center zone without missing a beat).

As its name suggests, the Flow2 embraces the symbiotic relationship that can be achieved between various kitchen systems, always focusing on the best way to use resources and achieve maximum sustainability.

One of the interesting design features is the incorporation of evaporative cooling fridge boxes, reminding us that many of the items that we typically stow away in our energy-hogging refrigerators actually don't need to be kept that cold.

By placing vegetables, fruit, eggs, cheese and butter in the containers pictured above, their evapo-transpiration effect -- created via water filled double-walls -- slowly seeps through the outer wall, evaporating and naturally cooling the edibles stored within.

What do you think about this whole design? Do you predict that it will be warmly received by the public? Would you just as soon do it yourself with the supplies that you already have?