Sustainable Living

Solar energy for the 21st century

2011-05-02T11:12:00.010+05:00

The Arabs never do anything by halves. This time Qatar, bidding to host the 2022 Fifa Cup, has found something new to wow us with: engineers at Qatar University have invented a gas filled “cloud”, powered by solar energy, to float above the stadium and shade spectators and players from the blazing sun.

This “cloud” will be made of a very light carbon structure surrounding something like a dirigible filled with helium. It’ll be moved around by remote control from the ground, so that the moving sun needn’t worry anyone: the cloud can just move with it! It will fly at high altitude so that it can block out the rays of the sun for large patches on the ground. And when there’s nothing on at the stadium, it’ll use solar energy to power the neighborhood.

People have wondered why they haven’t just built a solar shade over the stadium instead of planning such a project. Well, you can’t move a fixed solar shade over to other stadiums when it’s not needed here, can you!

This cloud is in the development stage, but eleven years should be enough to finish the project!

The stadium which will host the event if Qatar wins the bid for the World Cup, the Lusail Iconic Stadium, is located in a new development in the north of Doha, Qatar’s capital city. Foster and Partners designed it as an eco friendly, energy efficient edifice. It is a specially built arena that will seat eighty-six thousand spectators, and has been made specifically for the extreme heat of Doha. It will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the games.

There will be a moat that everyone who wishes to go into the stadium will have to cross. There will be solar panels installed on canopies over the parking lot.

Yes, solar energy is the way to go!

Photo credits: African sports TV.

The vertical walk of a Goat

2010-11-05T14:50:00.009+05:00

Mountain goat in Montana's Glacier national park travels thousands of feet a day but vertically to lick on exposed minerals that provide essential nutrients required for surviving the harsh winters of the region.... Glaciers in Montana's Glacier national park are melting fast, out of the original 150 Glaciers only 26 are left.....humans are blaming it to the Global warming again...

Image: National Geographic - Nov 2010....

Resident of the soda-can

2010-11-05T11:05:00.006+05:00

Our trash is littered all over the sea beds, polluting them more and more. Fishermen from the gulf of Mexico have been reporting fish catch with oil in guts. Nature is very adaptive so wild life continues to live under the blessings of BP as well. Some times our wastes like the soda-can in the image is a blessing.
This tiny goby has taken residence in a soda can and seems to be decorating its facade, a tiny coral buildup maybe..

Image: National Geographic - Nov 2010....

Flood in Pakistan a man made calamity

2010-08-02T19:25:00.014+05:00

The number of causalities and the vast devastation brought with floods of 2010's monsoon in Pakistan are sad and shocking and we should support the victims as much as we can. Every one was very happy when the rains started during the mid of July and had no idea that these rains would lead to divesting natural calamity in the coming weeks. Calamity we may say but can we really call it natural? and if floods are a natural phenomena then there must be a solution in place for them by nature.
It seems so bizarre that humans who pretend to know the best act so ignorantly towards nature, mostly never considering the consequences.

Floods in Pakistan like every where else in the world are natural, but the destruction and damage caused by them is almost always man made. Accounts of the Indus river from the times of Alexander's campaign indicate a healthy forest cover in the region, which has now considerably receded. The Mughal Emperor Babur writes of encountering rhinoceroses along its bank in his memoirs (the Baburnama).

Extensive deforestation and human interference in the ecology of the rive banks has led to deterioration in vegetation and growing conditions. The Indus valley regions are arid with poor vegetation now. Massive deforestation of the KATCHA initially under the British Raj and then by the common man and Pakistani government has lead to an almost non existent flood buffer....in fact massive human settlements have sprung all over what was 30 miles of Jungle on each side of river Indus. This massive jungle on river banks was commonly know as KATCHA in Sindh and Punjab, and acted as a flood buffer with thousands of natural dips in the elevation of its scape. During monsoon all the KATCHA area would come under the flood which would contain it to a great extent, slowing down the water spill to the agricultural flood plains. Even until 1870's most of the agriculture done on the agricultural flood plains was done after the flood water started seeping out of the KATCHA. Thus human settlements were obviously protected by these two natural buffers, the KATCHA & the agricultural flood plains. The jungle on the river banks would also release its organic content to the agricultural flood plains making them fertile.

The banks of river Indus should be declared as conservation land and the human settlements should be moved inland, the conservation areas should be reforested with man made water containing dips or pockets.... undoubtedly this would be a plan which would be executed by generations of Indus dweller, but this is the only natural solution because even a 100 dams cant contain the mighty Indus....

Above Image: Notes from field by Imran who is part of the Pakistan Wetlands Programme of WWF - Pakistan.

TEDx Lahore 2010 was ORGANIC

2010-08-01T02:07:00.016+05:00

TEDx Lahore 2010 was ORGANIC, had a GREEN twist to it, nothing less then inspirational and we need events like this to be held more frequently and telecasted on TV ....

Talking to the attendees was great, the musical performances were amazing and the food was nice.... kudos to the Tedx Lahore 2010 team/presenters for their simple, confident, loud & Proud manner that made the event an absolute success.....and that's why the few sound and visual errors every now and then were the beauty and organic nature of the event.... it was like picking a tomato from a plant in ones back yard .... nothing like a polished shiny hybrid beast from the aisles of a supermarket.....

I don't think anything needs to be said about the speakers but strangely i feel confident to make the bold attempt of concluding every presentation into one single word..... COMMUNE..... it felt as if each speaker was urging us for community build up to think original and to communicate ..... while Arif Hasan Sab was trying to paint the picture of a village water well providing community space ..... Dr. Haque wanted Pakistanis to think local.....Dr. Rehman & Saima Zaidi did a great job in presenting the much real past and the wider horizon of commune. People like Mudassir Zia and Asher are all about community anyway.....and both Dr. Usmani and Dr. Khan reassured us about the good quality of Made in Pakistan..... thus Collective Genius

Greed and temptation took over and i couldn't resist to pick couple of left back tree saplings and put em in my goody bag..... thoroughly enjoyed the drums and was not the last to leave.........

Thank you TEDx Lahore 2010 team.....

2600 years old living fossil saved by photovoltaic

2010-07-09T22:03:00.007+05:00

With the installation of 3600 watts of photovoltaic at the remote village of Bara Zizri in Ziarat district of Baluchistan Pakistan, there is hope for the second most ancient Juniper forest on the planet. With one of most fragile ecosystems in Pakistan, the forest has an extremely slow growth rate and faces very harsh climatic and geophysical conditions. The forest ecosystem has important wildlife species and medicinal plants. The main threats are debarking and cutting trees for fuel wood and other uses by the local communities.

Now with the help of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), PCRET (Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies) has installed photovoltaic to produce 3600 watts of renewable electricity that lit up 120 households, 6 schools and 6 mosques in the area.... this should reduce the pressure on the forest. 17 local woodcutters have also been trained to manage the photovoltaic panels and the electric supply, giving them an alternate livelihood.

More on IUCN's efforts...

More about the ancient forest.....

Dry Farming Tomatoes

2010-05-13T21:38:00.028+05:00

Like killer tomatoes, drought tolerant tomatoes make sense, try dry farming your tomatoes. Dry farming tomatoes results into best flavor possible. To dry farm tomatoes we need to build the soil with organic matter with compost and growing cover crops. After planting tomatoes water them once and cover the ground in two layers of mulch. You could mulch your tomato beds with organic material and then with some hard mulch like gravel or bits of terracotta to prevent evaporation, and let the tomatoes grow without watering. You only water the tomatoes when their leaves start to turn yellow and then you do so rarely and deeply. Once the tomato plant develops fruit you stop watering all together. This allows the plant to focus not on new growth, but developing the fruit. You tomato plants will be ugly and straggly by doing this and your yield will be small, but you’ll have great tasting tomatoes. These sharp tasting tomatoes are perfect for sun dried tomatoes.

Concept of Sustainable Living

2010-05-09T00:28:00.003+05:00

Sustainable living refers to a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources. Its also an attempt to reduce carbon footprints by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet form furious consumptions to sensible choices. Sustainable and ecological living promotes living in manners that are consistent with sustainability, in natural balance and respect of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and cycles. The practice and general philosophy of Sustainable living is highly interrelated with the overall principles of Eco friendly development. Its also about minimizing our "ecological footprints to an extent that it dose not create an environmental impact. Proponents of Eco friendly living hope to preserve the Earth for future generations of human beings and other life.
Sustainable living branches from the concept of self-sufficiency. In recent years, its has been expressed as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Self-sufficiency is the core principle of green living in which individuals or societies consume only that which they have produced.
Sustainable living demands environment friendly urban infrastructure in form of self sufficient design, which adheres to the principles of Eco friendly living. Its main principles are to achieve technological and governmental policies that enable urban planning for sustainable architecture and agriculture.
According to Lester R. Brown, a prominent environmentalist and founder of the World watch and Earth Policy Institutes, "Sustainable living in the 21st century is "shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system."
There are many movements that oppose further mechanization of society vis-à-vis technological achievements. Eco consciousness, however, adheres to the belief that technological progress can be effectively achieved through appropriate technology.

There a many movements that may appear similar to sustainable living, which oppose further mechanization of society vis-à-vis technological achievements. Sustainable living, however, adheres to the belief that technological progress can be effectively achieved through appropriate technology.

The Stinky Story of Deodorant

2010-05-08T22:25:00.049+05:00

Every one uses deodorants while knowing about the cancerous effects of deodorants on our body. Modern day deodorants have 7 deadly ingredients that should be avoided. While buying deodorant read the ingredients. Deodorants brands put them in very tiny print on the back of the Deodorant's can. Reading you deodorants ingredients is critical because what you put on your skin while using deodorants can be absorbed directly into your bloodstream & can have potentially deadly effects on your body.

Below are your 7 ingredients to avoid when choosing your deodorant:

Aluminum compounds from deodorants is absorbed through the skin and accumulates in the body. It has been suggested that there is an association between aluminum and Alzheimer's disease.

Parabens in deodorant are all derived from toluene, a toxic petrochemical derivative harmful in contact with the skin. There is some evidence that repeated exposure to toluene may cause reproductive harm. Since 2000, 13 research studies have shown that various types of parabens in our deodorants act like estrogen in animals and in tissue culture. Estrogen is known to drive the growth of cancerous cells.

Deodorants with Triclosan is a skin irritant and may cause contact dermatitis. It may kill healthy bacteria as well as harmful bacteria. It may contain carcinogenic contaminants. It is stored in body fat and is classified as a pesticide by the FDA.

Talc is classified as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer if it contains asbestiform fibers. The quantity of asbestiform fibers in cosmetic grade talc is unregulated. If talc is listed on the deodorant's label, there is no way of knowing whether or not it contains asbestiform fibers.

Propylene glycol absorbs from usage of deodorants is a penetration enhancers. It may cause delayed allergic reactions. NIOSH says propylene glycol is a neurotoxin and may cause kidney or liver damage. The EPA says it's not fully investigated for carcinogenic potential.

Silica in deodorant is a skin irritant. It may be contaminated with crystalline quartz, which is a carcinogen.

Steareth-n (n may be any number like say 100 in deodorants), may be vegetable derived but is reacted with ethylene oxide (ethoxylated), a known human carcinogen.

Very few herbs supplied to deodorant manufacturers are free of synthetic preservatives unless they are extracted in vegetable glycerin. To make sure that the products you buy are healthy and free of these harmful chemicals.

But I'm not hippy enough to stink :(

Choose deodorants with ingredients like vegetable glycerin, natural preservatives like bioflavanoids and lichen, herbs or herbal extracts, de-ionized water or distilled water, green tea, aloe vera, baking soda, Alum and essential oils. Better yet use these natural products directly and raw.....they workkkk.

Journey Towards Green Vehicles

2010-05-01T18:23:00.044+05:00

Watch the movie and Hulk says, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry just before he turns green. Cut to the real world and some of the biggest car manufactures are trying to make Green cars to cash in on the enormous market share to be gained as the world becomes more ECO conscious. Living in the real world you start to realize that Greed not green is a far better motivator of Human Response to adversity, or maybe its just the cynic in me.
Seldom have we stumbled on to a viable solution at the first attempt, there are a number of possibilities which have so far been created and demonstrated within which we will be replacing the traditional petrol/diesel burning car. Just because a car is running on an alternate fuel does not necessary makes it a solution viable enough to replace the fossil fuel.
There are still a number of factors that will determine how efficiently we can manage resources. It is always wise to remember that there are no miracle cures to a century old ECO problems.
Alternate fuels which replaced fossil fuel in our fuel tanks so far are Electricity, Ethanol & Bio diesel, Hydrogen, kinetic energy, air & steam power...

Let's look at how alternate energy has been fighting its way into the tarry market of fossil fuel.

kinetic energy, air & steam power:

Trams before WW2 were being run on air and steam engine. Paris operated trams that were powered by compressed air using the Mekarski system in 1876. These were replaced in 1911 by cheap fossil fuel based electricity which is now taking its toll on people of Paris with cost of producing electricity using Eco enemy fuels.....trams have been running on steam & kinetically powered engines as well in past. India has been working on Air engine and Tata intends to run taxis powered by air.

Image Above: A bouillotte mounted on the front of a tram built by Mékarski and used in early trials in Paris. (Drawing 1875)

Image Right:La Nature of a New York air loco 1882.

Image Below: German electric car, 1904, with the chauffeur on top.

Electricity:

We all know that our vehicles can be driven on electricity but we are not satisfied with the speed, but electricity is one of the greenest most Eco friendly options we have..provided electricity used for charging our plug-in's has been produced with renewable energy. Electric vehicles also seem to be the most commercially viable option at the moment.

Image Right:The Henney Kilowatt, a 1961 production electric car.

Hydrogen:

A hydrogen vehicle is an alternative fuel vehicle that uses hydrogen as its onboard fuel for motive power. The engines of such vehicles convert the chemical energy of hydrogen to mechanical energy either by burning hydrogen through internal combustion , or by reacting hydrogen with oxygen in a fuel cell to run electric motors.
Hydrogen fuel does not occur naturally on Earth and thus is not an energy source, but is an energy carrier. Currently it is most frequently made from methane or other fossil fuels. However, it can be produced from a wide range of sources (such as wind, solar, or nuclear) that are intermittent, too diffuse or too cumbersome to directly propel vehicles. Hydrogen as fuel is not commercially viable..at the moment.

Ethanol & Bio diesel:

No good words for Ethanol and Bio diesel from me.... i hate the idea and find it utterly non sustainable. in fact the impact of producing and using Bio diesel & Ethanol is a hundred times deadlier then fossil fuel. Firstly because it is produced from food..... making farming land and agriculture yet another highly captalistable industry....leading to even more food insecurity & deforestation......and lets not forget there are still fumes involved....

Our commitment with electric vehicles & mass transports like Maglev trains from Germany & Japan can lead us to cleaner, breathable future....

DENIEL ANGERER BREAST MILK CHEESE! YAY OR NAY

2010-03-10T15:15:00.007+05:00

We been hearing about Chef Daniel Angerer's breast milk cheese controversy since last week, and for anyone who’s up in arms over DENIEL ANGERER’S very special cheeses which he made using his wife’s breast milk, can put those pitchforks and torches away now. Speaking to 1010WINS today, Deniel Angerer affirmed that “My Spouse’s Mommy Milk Cheese” is not being sold at his restaurant. Daniel Angerer’s breast milk cheese came under media firestorm after a blogger misinterpreted in his blog post and declared that the cheese was for sale to the public. Even the Health Department came nosing around, and Deniel Angerer had to assure them that the thought of selling the breast milk cheese didn’t even cross his mind. He says: “Do you want to have your wife’s milk eaten by somebody else, no not really!”
But why is this so awful or scary or gross? Its local, organic & healthy cheese made from breast milk. Also how is this any less gross than eating cheese that came from the manure-covered teat of a factory-farmed, hormone-laden, antibiotics laden cow? After all, you have to admit that when it comes to foods that are organic, local, natural and free, human breast milk ticks all the boxes. And, remember, the stuff is naturally DESIGNED to be the ultimate human sustenance. So what do you think? Would you eat cheese made of human breast milk?

THE CARVER HAND ON HEART

2010-03-08T04:46:00.004+05:00

Ah! Carver ... Sweet sweet Carver!

No gadget or vehicle except Carver in my 25 years of life has made me excited enough to want it until while looking for efficient vehicles on line i saw the Carver in video feathering Robert Hammond of top gear... I know i saw Carver 6 years late but this machine is the ultimate toy until they come up with a flying car as sexy as the Carver.... Now who would say no to a three wheeler that has a 660 CC turbo charged engine which is good for 115 crazy miles an hour....The carver is an absolute lunatic, doped and stoned vehicle, made to tilt as much as a freaky 45 degrees...depending on the pressure we you exert on the steering wheel....made by the amazing crazy Dutch the Carver is a jet fighter moving on roads.....only missing a couple of machine guns on its sides...Carver has an electric motor powered by a battery which on draining down to 80% gets more power form an engine with 4 gallon fuel tank..Now think of sitting on a chair fixed at 45 degrees....and then imagine the chair is moving at about 60 miles per hour..... the Carver is a gadget to end all gadgets....and i WANT ONE....and i know that Carver one filed for Bankruptcy & Venture one is the successor of the technology...

5 Places to Visit Before They Vanish

2010-02-21T21:54:00.007+05:00

Whether it’s raising sea level, desertification, and torrential monsoons, melting glaciers or oceans acidification. Climate change is rapidly altering the landscape of our planet.
We may be one of the last generations to witness Earth’s most cherished places. Here’s my list of 5 places to see before they completely vanish.

Lake SaifulMalook, Naran Valley, Pakistan

Deforestation has been a major problem all over Pakistan, Naran Valley and lake SaifulMalook have been experiencing rise in temperatures since 1980’s leading to shorter winters every year which is resulting is loss of habitat for the local flora & fauna. The only breather this picture perfect valley got in the last two decades was natural disaster of 8th October after which the road to the lake was destroyed, but as the deforestation continues it’s only a matter of time before the area turns into nature’s great demise.

Glacier National Park MT, USA

Just slightly more than a 100 years ago, there were as many as 150 ancient glaciers strewn through Glacier National Park in MT. By 2005 only 27 remained and those are expected to disappear completely by 2030 if not earlier. Many of the plants and animal species that call this park home depend on cold water for living, meaning the ecosystem of the park stands to change dramatically when the glaciers are gone.

Venice, Italy

Venice during a severe flood in Nov 09 was submerged into water when water level reached 131 cm. Venice has long been sinking, but raising sea levels have made the situation direr. The frequency of floods increase each year, leaving many to wonder how much longer Venice can stay above water.

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

It is so large that it can bee seen from space, but the great barrier reef Is disappearing at an alarming rate due to climate change and acidification of the oceans. What took 8000 years of naturals work hours may disappear in our lifetime.!

Maldives

Maldives is the lowest-lying country in the world with a maximum natural ground level of 2.3 meters, and an average of only 1.5 meters above sea level. If sea levels rise too much, the country would earn an unwanted superlative: the first nation to engulfed by ocean of global warming.

photo editing at picnik

2010-02-10T12:00:00.004+05:00

Picnik team headquarters are down at Seatle. Picnik has developed an online photoshopic software which is futuristic , user friendly, very reliable and secure through which we can not only apply effects to our pics but also share them to other sites like facebook,photobucket,and myspace etc. I have seen many online editing sites but picnik stands out awesome effects collection great precision everything is great.It even has addons for firefox and extension for google chrome

Apple Vs Google

2010-02-10T10:30:00.000+05:00

World's tallest lookout suddenly shut down

2010-02-09T15:57:00.002+05:00

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The world's tallest skyscraper burj khalifah has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks.

Electrical problems are at least partly to blame for the closure of the Burj Khalifa's viewing platform — the only part of the half-mile high tower open yet. But a lack of information from the spire's owner left it unclear whether the rest of the largely empty building — including dozens of elevators meant to whisk visitors to the tower's more than 160 floors — was affected by the shutdown.

The Persian Gulf city-state had hoped the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa would be a major tourist draw. Dubai has promoted itself by wowing visitors with over-the-top attractions such as the Burj, which juts like a silvery needle out of the desert and can be seen from miles around.

In recent weeks, thousands of tourists have lined up for the chance to buy tickets for viewing times often days in advance that cost more than $27 apiece. Now many of those would-be visitors, such as Wayne Boyes, a tourist from near Manchester, England, must get back in line for refunds.

The precise cause of the $1.5 billion Dubai skyscraper's temporary shutdown remained unclear.

In a brief statement responding to questions, building owner Emaar Properties blamed the closure on "unexpected high traffic," but then suggested that electrical problems were also at fault.

Condoms From Brazil

2010-02-09T12:38:00.005+05:00

It is unlikely you ever will get a chance to use the “Green Johnny”, a male preservative based on eco-friendly extracted natural latex from the Amazônia rainforest. Maybe when you ever visit Brazil during the carnival or one of the holiday centres you might be offered one of the 120 million condoms courtesy of the federal government of Brazil. Brazil’s Public Health Ministry distributes the free condoms as part of its successful Health Programs to combat STD/Aids.
Up till now the approx. 120 million condoms are imported from China, South Korea and Thailand, made from cultivated rubber trees. That will change soon.

Natex, a Brazilian company founded by the Public Health Ministry and the government of the federal state of Acre, will manufacture male preservatives from pure natural latex extracted from the Amazon rainforest in a sustainable and eco-friendly way. The condoms will be solely sold to the federal government for its national program to combat STD/Aids.
The expected initial production of condoms will be 100 million pieces a year. The factory, the only one in the world to use natural latex as raw material, will have a future capacity of 270 million condoms a year. The construction of the factory is based upon sustainable, social and environmental development.
Natex will create 150 direct jobs and employ 700 native families of the Chico Mendes reservation for the supply of the raw material. It is estimated that in the Amazon rainforest of Acre some 70.000 native rubber tappers are active.

Turbine Light keeps your night drives safe with wind energy

2010-02-06T16:18:00.002+05:00

Concept highway lighting powered by renewable energy.

Concerned about the safety of the ever increasing number of cars on the highways, designers over at TAK Studio have come up with a sustainable lighting system dubbed the Turbine Light. The design is an entry in this year’s Greener Gadgets competition, and it aims to illuminate highways using renewable energy.

The system features a built-in wind turbine that uses the moving air from cars on the highways to generate clean energy, which is then used to power the lights. However, the practicality of the system is debatable as without a working prototype it would never be easy to check if moving cars produce enough wind energy to illuminate the lights all night long.

Introduction to Eco-Artware.com

2010-02-06T03:43:00.009+05:00

Eco-Artware.com is a web-based gallery commitment to selling eco friendly green products since 1999. This eco friendly web site has been showcasing earth friendly gifts made by artists who are committed to sustainability. Eco-Artware.com has been offering products of 25 eco friendly artists who consider the environment into their work. One can find a wide range of beautifully handcrafted items and products made in independent workshops, including handcrafted jewelry, home décor, recycled stationery and eco friendly office products.
Another specialty of Eco-Artware.com is custom designed green business promotions and awards made of recycled or reused materials. My favorite piece on Eco-Artware.com is Grow-A-Note Plantable Cards these unique eco friendly handmade cards are the ultimate in eco-friendly living. Made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled fiber printed with soy ink, the notes are embedded with a variety of wildflower seeds: Annual Gaillardia, Baby's Breath, Catchfly, Siberian Wallflower, Chinese Houses, Baby Blue-Eyes and California Bluebells! After the recipient reads and cherishes your note they can plant it and flowers will bloom! Easy planting instructions appear on the back of each card, along with the seed content. Each handmade tree free paper card will recycle naturally into the soil as the seedlings grow. The paper envelopes for these eco cool note cards contain 30 percent post consumer waste. .

Eco-Artware.com has been featured in Time, Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications.

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Shoes That Tweet

2010-02-04T11:39:00.004+05:00

You’ve MySpaced, Facebooked, Plurked, and Tumblred. Tweeting your life in 140 characters or less was only the next logical move. But if all this public posturing still rates as undersharing, take heart: You can now microblog with every step you take. Ricardo Nascimento, an artist and multimedia producer from Brazil, has created the Rambler, a pair of sensor-equipped sneakers that tracks movement and then blabs about it on Twitter

EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE
Depending on the pressure exerted on the soles of the shoes, each footfall is translated as a “tap” or “.” This information is then transmitted via the magic of Bluetooth to a cellphone, which, in turn, updates the Rambler’s Twitter page. “Following these postings, one can know if the wearer is walking or not and also predict his speed,” says Nascimento.

Depending on the pressure exerted, each step is translated as a “tap” or “.”

The Rambler isn’t in earnest, however—it’s more of a satirical statement on our navel-gazing Internet culture and the glut of completely pointless information circulating the Twitterverse. Now excuse us, it’s time for a java break—and, by God, 1,180 of our closest friends need to know about it

The Sprinkle Dress is a Plant-Filled Gown You Have to Water

2010-02-04T11:31:00.005+05:00

We’ve encountered accessories made from living plants before, but an entire dress? That takes a special brand of…oh, dedication. Constructed by Italian designer Linda Schailon—who also makes anemone-like rings from recycled straws—the Sprinkle Dress features a full garden-wire skirt that supports a phalanx of thriving botanicals, all neatly potted in discarded yogurt containers.

PLANT-HER
Schailon tapped into her childhood princess fantasies, which she recalls with vivid detail, involving “hedges of hawthorn adorned with jewels” and “caressing the grass under the hot sun.” “It would be nice to bring nature to onself, not only in your heart,” Schailon says. “So you can close your eyes and imagine for a moment being in an enchanted place

Tea Bag composting

2010-02-02T03:20:00.008+05:00

Tea is the social drink of the world & it’s dead fashionable to compost these days, so other then our regular organic waste why not compost Tea Bags as man kind consumed 5.2 million metric tons of tea in 2009 alone. Tea Bag composting should be a simple task but thanks to many manufacturers using syntactic Tea Bags instead of paper, one needs to be a bit conscious before chucking their Tea Bag into the compost bin, as you don’t wanna picks those tiny plastic bags once you intend to use your compost…
If your Tea Bag's made out of paper and has an organic thread with a paper based tag then all you need to do is to throw the used bag in your compost bin straight away and the Tea Bag should take about 4 days in humid conditions before releasing the tea inside while the paper and thread should take about a month before breaking down…
If the tea bag is made out of a synthetic material then you might wanna cut the bag and put its contents in the compost bin… other then Tea Bags one can also compost used tea leaves.
In countries like China, Pakistan, Morocco & India tea leaves are infuse in water to create mix tea which is then strained before serving, these strained tea leaves can also be washed under a tap in the strainer and then dumped with other organic waste to compost bins….
Tea leaved and tea bags are great for composting as they increase the mass of compost really quickly and also help in speeding up the composting processes as they posses’ acidic phosphates…which become great heating agents in a compost bin.
So next time think twice before wasting a used tea bag as its green gold you’re about to trash….

10 of my Favorite Green ideas of 2009

2010-01-01T00:57:00.015+05:00

Solar Eye for the Blind:

Researchers at Stanford University recently announced that they have developed a new artificial retina implant that uses photovoltaic power and could help the blind see. The problem with previous implants was that there was no way send power to the chip in order to process light and data inside the eye. Now, miniature photovoltaic cells are being used to provide power to the chip as well as to transmit data through the eye to the brain. The new device has great promise to help people afflicted by the loss of photoreceptor cells by using the power of the sun. The device is placed behind the retina and is essentially an array of mini solar devices. In addition, the system utilizes is an external video camera that captures images, a pocket pc to process the video feed, and a bright near-infrared LCD display built into video goggles, which transmit infrared light pulses to the photovoltaic device in the eye. The light pulses then produce electricity in the device, which transmits data through the eye so the brain can process it into a hazy picture. The implant is built to a width of 3 mm wide and 0.03 mm thick, and includes 3 layers of flexible photovoltaic cells mounted with silicon posts. This new system is capable of producing vision of 20/200, which is beyond what is considered legally blind, but the researchers reasonable expect to achieve 20/100, which would produce a picture clear enough that a person could recognize faces and read large print.

Algae Based Batteries:

Every one talks about producing biofuel using Algae, but creating ultra thin batteries using Algae is pretty revelatory. Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries. Conducting polymers have long been thought to be a solution in developing lightweight, flexible, nonmetal batteries. But up until now, these polymers have had been impractical because regular paper can?t hold enough of them work effectively. Now Uppsala researcher Maria Stromme and her team has found that the smelly algae species that clumps on beaches, known as Cladophora, can also be used to make a type of cellulose that has 100 times the surface area of cellulose found in paper. That means it can hold enough conducting polymers to effectively recharge and hold electricity for long amounts of time. The algae-based paper sheet batteries hold up to 200% more charge than regular paper-based cellulose batteries, and they can recharge in as little as 11 seconds. Eventually, they could be used in any application that requires flexible electronics for example, clothing or packaging that lights up. Perhaps most importantly, the algae batteries could one day cut down on e-waste from conventional metal batteries.

Japan's Solar Space Post:

Japan is definitely getting in on the action with its latest spacey plan. A $21 billion solar-powered generator in the heavens to produce one gigawatt of energy, or enough to power 294,000 homes. The Japanese government announced the plan back in June, but there has been an important new development Mitsubishi Electric Corp and industrial design company IHI Corp are now teaming up in the race to develop new technology within four years that can beam electricity back to Earth without the use of cables.

Mitsubishi and IHI are joining a research group containing 14 other countries to tackle the daunting task of getting Japan's four square kilometer solar space station up and running in the next three decades. By 2015, the Japanese government hopes to test a small satellite decked out with solar panels that beams power through space and back to Earth.

There are still a number of hurdles to work through before space-based solar power becomes a reality though. Transportation of the solar panels into space is too expensive at the moment to be commercially viable, so Japan has to figure out a way to lower costs. Even if costs are lowered, solar stations will have to worry about damage from micrometeoroids and other flying objects. Still, space-based solar operates perfectly under all weather conditions, unlike Earth-based panels that are at the mercy of the clouds.

Japan isn't the only country in the race for space power. Solaren and California's Pacific Gas and Electric utility are working together on a project to deliver 200 megawatts of power from space over a 15-year period that begins in 2015. The concept of space-based solar power was introduced way back in 1968, but it's only recently that the world has latched on to the idea.

Thin-film solar tubes:

There are hundreds of solar companies developing new materials, new business models, new installation techniques and new manufacturing processes in an effort to bring down the cost and improve the efficiency of solar panels. But there's only one company that has made progress in 2009 with uniquely-designed solar tube-shaped panels: Solyndra. Only founded in 2005, and starting its first shipping in mid-2008, Solyndra has designed its solar panels into a series of skinny tubes that can absorb sun light from all directions, and can be installed flat on a roof (in contrast to traditional panels that need to be nailed down at an angle). That means the panels can be installed more easily and can in theory be cheaper.

Solar windows:

The Queensland University of Technology recently announced that it has been working with Dyesol to develop an innovative solar cell technology that re-envisions windows as clear, clean energy providers. Professor John Bell has said that these dye-infused solar cells would significantly reduce building energy costs, and could even generate surplus energy to be stored or sold. The development has been touted as the most promising advance in solar cell technology since the invention of the silicon cell.

Modern architecture has a love-hate relationship with windows: they contribute light and levity to interior spaces, yet they are the most frequently cited culprits for thermal energy loss. Traditional approaches to the problem have tended towards increasing insular ability, however this new development would imbue windows with power producing capabilities, actually providing energy instead of leaking it.

Dyesol's solar cells use an innovative technology called artificial photosynthesis, wherein a dye analogous to chlorophyll absorbs light to generate electricity. The panels are composed of an electrolyte, a layer of titania (a pigment used in white paints and tooth paste), and ruthenium dye sandwiched between glass. Light striking the dye excites electrons which are absorbed by the titania to become an electric current.

Dye solar cells are cheaper and require less energy to manufacture than silicon cells, since they dont require expensive raw materials. They also produce electricity more efficiently, even in instances of shadowing, where overcast skies and shadows from trees and other buildings can cause a loss in collected power.

These solar windows will offer an enticing new option for skyscrapers and houses looking to break the zero-energy barrier imagine the net power that a floor-to-ceiling glass.

Laser Cut Leaves are Nature?s Unique Business Cards:

If you're in the market for new business cards or a cutting-edge new advertising medium, you should take a look at this brilliant idea your message or logo etched right onto a real leaf, no paint necessary! The resulting leaves are simple, stunning when looked at against the sunlight, and the best part is that if they are thrown away, there is no adverse effect on the environment. Design Firm Tatil Design of Brazil came up with the elegant marketing idea, which they recently used in 2008 during the 55th Cannes Advertising Festival to promote their Designing Naturally workshop. Natural Medium, which is what they call their amazing laser cut leaves, was so popular and well received at the festival that it won the Bronze Award for the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards in Eco Design. Tatil Design came up with a simple idea that not only demonstrated the purpose of their workshop, but was elegant and beautiful to look at. The designers collected fallen leaves and then selected images that expressed the intent of the workshop. Designs varied from animals to dancers, burgers to planes, and ants to a soup can. The images were then laser cut into the dried leaves, which left a beautiful silhouette of the picture and the wording to advertise the workshop. The leaves were a big hit at the festival.

Solar Powered Camel Clinics:

Kenya's camels recently started sporting some unusual apparel eco-friendly refrigerators! Some of the African country's camels are carrying the solar-powered mini fridges on their backs as part of a test project that uses camels as mobile health clinics. Organizers hope the eco-friendly transport system will provide a cheap, reliable way of getting much-needed medicines and vaccines to rural communities in Kenya and Ethiopia. For the past decade, Nomadic Communities Trust has been using camels as mobile health clinics in Kenya's Laikipia and Samburu districts, isolated areas with few roadways. While the camel convoys provide a cost-effective method of traversing the harsh terrain, the group had no way of delivering medicines and vaccines that required refrigeration until now. The mini fridge is housed in a bamboo saddle that is lightweight and durable enough for camels to easily carry it across miles of rough terrain. The device itself is covered with crystalline solar panels that provide power for the compartmented fridge?s generator. The solar panels themselves can also be used by the mobile clinics for lighting and refrigeration in the field. The solar-powered fridges are currently being tested on camels in Kenya and Ethiopia, but Amatullo says the system could be used by any rural communities with access to camels. If the project has secured enough funding, it should be implemented in earnest in 2010. Lets hope the eco-friendly venture received the money it needed in the Laikipia and Samburu districts alone, 300,000 people do not have access to the mobile health clinics.

Trash-Powered Street Lamp:

Think about how much trash goes into a bin in, say, New York City's Times Square on a daily basis. What if all that garbage could be used to generate energy? Thats the thinking behind designer Haneum Lees Gaon Street Light a lamppost powered by garbage! Lee's lamppost features a trash can at its base. Pedestrians toss their old food products inside, where they are composted. Methane from the compost is used to power the lamp, and the entire process begins again. It?s an interesting concept, but there are a few problems with it. How much trash would be needed to keep the lamp turned on and what happens when the inevitable pedestrian throws regular trash into the food waste bin. The Gaon Street Light would undoubtedly work best in areas with heavy foot traffic, but those are the places where people are most likely to toss their regular trash into the wrong bin. Still, Lee's idea is promising, and at the very least, compost waste may one day be able to partially power our street lights.

Electricity Generating Street pavements:

Any one point on a busy street can receive up to 50,000 steps a day, so imagine if you could take all that foot traffic and turn it into something useful. Like energy! A new product designed by Laurence Kemball-Cook, the director of Pavegen Systems Ltd., can do just that. With a minuscule flex of 5mm, the energy generating pavement is able to absorb the kinetic energy produced by every footstep, creating 2.1 watts of electricity per hour. Every time a rubber Pavegen stone is stepped on it bends, producing kinetic energy that is either stored within lithium polymer batteries or distributed to nearby lights, information displays, and much more. Just five slabs spread over a lively sidewalk has the ability to generate enough energy to illuminate a bus stop throughout the night. But applications are not limited to the street. Extended into other public and private spaces the system has the potential to power lights, computers, automatic doors, ticket machines, refrigerators, shop signs, microwaves's Depending on the usage, the payback period could be as little as one year, and each Pavegen stone has an estimated system life of five years of use, or 20 million steps. Constructed from marine grade stainless steel and recycled materials, the surface (which comes in a variety of choice colors) of each slab features the rubber from old tires, and the internal components are made from recycled aluminium. Whenever a slab is stepped on it emits a glow (which only uses 5% of the total energy produced) this not only informs the passerby of their contribution, but also reinforces a sustainable attitude and an increased awareness of the energy that is continually created and expended by each individual. So far Pavegen has been tested out in East London and will continue onto various destinations in the UK in 2010. If all goes well it will hopefully be jetting off to some of the most trafficked and amazing places all over the world like New York's Times Square, the Eiffel Tower or even Disney World.

Cheap PV's made out of Human hair:

Did you know that melanin, the pigment in hair, is light sensitive and can be used as a conductor? Well, thats what an 18 year old in Nepal recently discovered, and is now using human hair to replace silicon in solar panels. Since the price of hair is considerably cheaper than silicon, this enterprising youth may have just found a breakthrough technology to help bring down the cost of solar and give thousands of people in developing nations access to affordable renewable energy. Karki, who attends school in Kathmandu, started reading a book by Stephan Hawking that discussed ways of creating static energy from hair. From this idea, Karki realized that melanin was one of the factors in energy conversion, and that it could possibly serve as a substitute conductor. He and four other classmates worked on a prototype, which they found could charge a cell phone or a pack of batteries for lighting. The panels themselves are 15 inches square and can produce 9V or 18W of power and cost around $38 to produce. Karki thinks that if they were mass produced though, they would cost half as much. In Nepal, human hair costs about 25c for half a kilo and can last for several months. Hair is also basically a renewable resource and can be replenished by the owner of the solar panel as it wears out. This low cost and low tech device could be a revolutionary step in solar power bringing down the cost of the technology, bringing power to the masses and using materials which are common to everyone in the world.

Chic Swine Flu Mask Changes Color When Your Temperature Rises

2009-12-24T12:46:00.005+05:00

‘This is the season for the flu, and if the regular strain wasn’t bad enough, we have a new, porcine terror to contend with. These brightly patterned medical face masks, however, may ward off H1N1 and its brethren simply by virtue of being stylish—looking like Wacko Jacko in his latter days notwithstanding. Designed by Marjan Kooroshnia, a Swedish textile-design student, these face masks have a bonus feature: They’re printed with thermochromic ink that changes color with any uptick in breathing temperature.

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

Inspired by the swine flu pandemic, Hoorshnia’s early warning systems—for other people, at least—span the design gamut, from the traditional medical mask to a rather fetching wrap-around scarf. In addition to full-face sinus masks that detect temperature increases around the forehead or mouth, Hoorshnia has also designed masks with patterns (such as flowers) that indicate the wearer’s allergies.

The masks are printed with thermochromic ink that changes color with any uptick in breathing temperature.

Kooroshnia, who focuses her research on smart textiles, is investigating how reactive, color-changing technologies for fabrics can not only serve as a form of visual communication, but also as a potential red flag to prevent contagious diseases from spreading. A person with a different colored mask, for instance, can be spotted easily and quarantined if necessary.

But the quirky masks can also be worn for fun, she notes. “Using different patterns for masks might be suitable for different people, from the aspect of beauty and color

Solar water heater

2009-12-21T14:26:00.003+05:00

Solar water heater is not a new term, in fact in countries like Spain and India solar water heater is a commonly sold product. Thanks to ever increasing cost of energy Solar water heaters have become quite popular. Dew to demand the design & efficiency of Solar water heater has improved over the past 2 decades. We all know that a Solar water heater uses the free & abundant solar energy to heat up our water so calling them the cheapest type of water heaters won’t be wrong. Unlike the other renewable energy products, Solar water heaters don’t have a monstrous initial cost. Many consider Solar water heaters inefficient as they a re powered by sun but fail to understand that if invested properly into storage Solar water heaters are just as efficient as the conventional ones. Also solar water heaters are being made on both unit size small ones and community size gigantic ones. Single unit Solar water heaters in Spain are very common now, in fact there are cities where Solar water heater are mandatory to attain planning commission on houses. In remote locations in India water is heated for the entire communities using huge reflectors reflecting on either water storage or transmission pipe lines. Solar water heaters either have no or little running cost while their effects on our environment are amazing and it won’t be wrong to say that the Solar water heater is a great step towards conservation.

Why Copenhagen

2009-12-19T02:16:00.002+05:00

So one is very green conscious and is concerned about the environment to such an extent that finding out about the multiple problems facing the environment makes him sad and depressed but then one has his own life to live, people to meet bills to pay wives to marry. So when the Copenhagen Summit started the skeptic that I am my first reaction was Cities do not deserve to host such conferences and summits they directly or indirectly contribute to the uphill task we face if we want to make this world live able in the long term.

However cynicism should be based on facts so I had to find out if I could criticize Copenhagen, this is where Google comes in handy. So I start reading and the more I read the better I feel because no matter how pessimistic or realistic we are we all want to see the practical implementations which are already effective and show that Sustainability is not just an illusion and more importantly we can undo the damage done to the Environment.

Case in point, Vision 2015 Copenhagen plans to be justifiably famous as the capital city in the world with the best urban environment. It will have become the Eco-Metropolis of the world, thus demonstrating that environmental concern adds an extra dynamic to urban development. This is not just a far off dream which will join many other plans that have yet been unfulfilled and look likely never to succeed. Let’s just have a little look at how Copenhagen harbor has been cleaned in over a decade, so that now it’s a place where people can swim again.

The overflow of Sewage systems harms the water ways therefore this needs to be reduced as there are some key contaminants in sewage water:

Nutritive salts which fertilize the water and algae growths excessively.

Bacteria make water unhygienic.

Heavy metals and environmentally injurious substances are poisonous, when ingested by living organisms.

Organic substances diminish oxygen levels around the discharge sites.

The City of Copenhagen formulated its first Waste Water Management Plan in 1976.

This was followed by the establishment of a wastewater treatment plant in 1980, which was further improved in 1997 to handle sludge and incineration.

Which in turn was followed up by investments to reconstruction the sewage system, by building rain water reservoirs and reservoir conduits which can store waste water until there is space again in the sewage system.

Creation of an online municipal warning system that calculates and provides information about the water quality in the harbor.

Strategic efforts to create urban recreational facilities such as public harbor baths.

The desired impact has been a sustainable one, now that the harbor is clean enough for people to bath in without getting sick, all this has been accomplished in a relatively short space of time. The long term impact of this will show when the wildlife in and around the harbor returns. Above all Copenhagen’s efforts are an example of the fact that little efforts in the correct direction lead to sustainable results.

Copenhagen Pirates

2009-12-11T04:38:00.007+05:00

Indeed we look at the developed countries expecting them to lead by example not to lack the courage of their own convictions. On closer examination the cynic in me starts seeing situation from a different perspective:

Lets examine one particular situation which is complicated however on closer inspection on realizes the main hurdle to the effectiveness of conferences like the one in Copenhagen are the very nations who organize it and enforce the rules on others. The hypocrisy becomes evident especially when the media fails to show what the actual problem is, politics, religion, nationalistic, social structure accounts are given as reasons for the incidents however no one takes into account the Environmental impact of forgoing responsibility.

Playa de Bakio, is a Spanish fishing trawler which has been in the news a few months ago it was fishing in Somali waters, this fact is not disputed by even the Spanish officials. Even though Illegal fishing is a crime, this has been largely ignored for the best part of twenty years off the coast of Somalia. Fishing trawlers from different countries practice fishing techniques that are banned in their own countries as these are harmful to the environment to trawl the ocean water around Somalia. Their actions destroy the ecological balance and make environmental sustainability next to impossible.

They benefit from the sale of Somali fish all over the world and reap the profits, the international community has said little about this issue which costs the Somali people upwards of an estimated 94 million dollars yearly it jeopardizes the economic and environmental viability of fisheries for future generations of Somali children. The internal problem of the country and the anarchic situation it faces does not allow other countries to come and take advantage of the situation just because there is no resource to enforce the law. So the trawler is taken over by pirates, it becomes international headline news, but as long as they keep fishing illegal everyone can turn a blind eye to their piracy.

This kind of behavior is widespread and there are many examples around the world where developed countries take advantage of situations to make their countries cleaner while polluting others, if only they where not that narrow minded and short sighted they would come to the conclusion that the broader picture shows this earth is what they have to protect not the temporary and imaginary borders which represent countries.

Sticky Green Conscious

2009-12-07T00:51:00.005+05:00

London based Hu2 Design has created wall stickers to raise energy awareness & sustainability conscious. These wall stickers reveal fantastical set of inner workings behind standard plugs and switches. From hamster-powered generators to Franklin-esque lightning storms. These wall stickers offer clever explanations for the power running through our walls that make you think twice about where your energy does comes from. Hu2 have also created such stickers for taps and toilet seats to create awareness about water consumption. Wall stickers are made out of vinyl which can contain harmful chemicals but still Hu2 has done a great job to inspire energy efficiency with the flick of a switch, which in a longer run would create Sustainable consciousness.

Climate Change, Emails and Lies

2009-11-30T17:12:00.003+05:00

The change in weather in a particular region or worldwide over a period of time is called climate change. There are various factors for climate change Plate tectonics reconfiguring, Variation in Solar intensity, proximity to the sun, Volcanism, Ocean variability and Human influences. The main factor concerning the world regarding climate change is the Human Influence. The human population has had unprecedented growth over the past centuries and this growth is a major factor for climate change. However the debate where this is true or not now rages on as there are eminent scientists on both side of the argument vehemently defending their views.

There is a furious ongoing debate about the accuracy of data used to support global warming, this controversy has escalated even more since the leak of private emails from the university of East Anglia where most of the research comes from. The initial fears are the data has been doctored and manipulated to make global warming look more extreme a change then it is. This is going to become the main topic at the Copenhagen climate conference which is being attended by nearly all the nations of the world. I guess the need hear is for some common sense to prevail. We cannot deny the fact that human interaction with earth on such proportions that we can effect the climate and alter it by our combined actions. The manipulation of data is something unfortunate and it should not cloud our judgment, we should remain focused on the path to try bringing our actions in line with mother nature and try and exist in perfect harmony as our ancestors did for thousands of years.

stripping to fight global warming

2009-11-24T13:44:00.001+05:00

Why Not Organic medicines

2009-11-20T13:16:00.005+05:00

Organic medicines to a lot of us are herbal base slow effecting medicines that can’t coup up with the pace of our lives. Many would be surprised to learn that organic medicines have proven to be just as effective as stimulant drugs at suppressing symptoms, but this is just one of the many benefits of Organic medicines. Organic medicines acts more like a supplement rather then a drug. Also Organic medicines have been used for centuries and are very sustainable compared to our modern drugs simply because the raw materials for Organic medicines are usually local.

Since our body is organic, so giving it Organic medicines, rather than a synthetic medicine is a healthier course of action. Research has also shown that Organic medicines have lesser side effects compared to the synthetic medicine, as Organic medicines enhancement our resistance against diseases by recovering the deficiencies in our bodies. This means that in Organic medicines herbs and botanics work together to heal the dysfunction that causes the disorders in the first place. This also explains why an Organic medicine needs to be taken longer then the synthetic drug.

A further simplified example would be the difference between popping calcium pills VS drinking a glass of milk every day. While drinking milk regularly would prevent the bones from breaking down in our body, calcium pill would choke our kidneys with calcium residue.

Thus organic medicines can be used for instant relief as well as full natural long term recovery as well.

Lose weight

2009-11-18T16:05:00.000+05:00

green your sex life

2009-11-18T16:01:00.001+05:00

eco bike rides

2009-11-18T15:52:00.002+05:00

Germany-based GRACE has announced the development of what is being touted to be the first street-legal electric motorbike that has been made from euro-fighter plane parts and formula one car parts making it the toughest e-bike ever to be made.

Zero-emission bike powered by electricity.

Powered by a 13Ah lithium-ion battery, the GRACE can be recharged in just one hour. Since the bike is individually made for each client, the company offers 3 different frame types and an option to choose your ride in 64 different colors.

The Houcs of Hybrid Vehicle

2009-11-17T16:05:00.006+05:00

Is hybrid vehicle really the solution to our energy & environment based problems? Can a hybrid vehicle really be an energy efficient solution of transport? Is the manufacturing of hybrid vehicle an environment friendly process? & if hybrid vehicle is really an answer to all our problems then, how much energy are we going to conserve by switching to hybrid vehicle & what impacts would hybrid vehicles leave on our environment. Lets see are we sure we wish to talk about hybrid vehicle, is adopting to hybrid vehicle really a solution and if the era of hybrid vehicle would only be a transiently phase then do we really need to invest into hybrid vehicle.

Looking beyond hybrid vehicle tells us that there are batter solutions then adopting hybrid vehicles. We’ve been able to develop more efficient technologies, then the misty and deceiving hybrid vehicle. We know that before the world wars, air and kinetic energy based engines were operational in buses and trams in Europe, the capitalist decided to kill those Eco friendly cheaper to use technologies so that fossil fuel could be exploited. Now when the wind of change is blowing they are trying there luck with the hocus of hybrid vehicle, they intend to keep the technologies such as electric and hydrogen cars very costly until that they can pull the last of fossil fuel from the planet and choke the last human being to death. Renewable resources of energy are already promising free electricity in the longer run, then rejecting an electric car and advocating a hybrid vehicle is nothing less then a game of deception. Water being the waste of a hydrogen vehicle makes hybrid vehicle a gas guzzler.

Demand Alternate, Demand Renewable cos you earn for your self not for your vehicle.

Why Solar Power

2009-11-16T20:13:00.003+05:00

In our search for renewable energy which would ultimately be able to replace fossil fuels. We have looked everywhere for answers from bio fuels to, nuclear energy. The only renewable resource that Man has come across which has the properties and capabilities of petroleum and then some is solar power. If some of the statistics provided by scientists are to be considered taken into context the only problem left to resolve is how to harness solar power, if we find an efficient way of doing so solar power can provide for all our needs and lets face it the Sun is here to stay for a few billion years so we would never have to find an alternative source. Solar power is being harnessed but on small scales.

We have yet to make a complete model in which everything that normal human being does in a civilized environment can be processed using solar power. This includes everyday chores such as cooking, cleaning, transport, work, lighting just naming a few. The Japanese even had plans to have Hugh mirrors in space which would harness solar power. however most recently the technology required to harness solar power is steadily improving and the capabilities of its use are reassuring. Solar power is only being held back by the people who have power only because they have resources that are limited and hence it gives them great powers. Solar power would change all that as it is far more difficult if not impossible to control.

Earth is Home

2009-11-16T17:30:00.004+05:00

Space might be the final frontier but earth is home. The more we explore the universe we realize how unique earth is. The irony here is that we mankind probably knows more about outer space then our earth, its deep seas or the heart of Amazon rain forest. Species on earth number in the millions, however they are disappearing more rapidly then they are being discovered. Humanity has been searching far from as far into the universe as our current technology allows to find a similar planet which shares properties with earth however its reinforces the view that we are in a unique position relative to everything.

Earth has seen a lot during its lifetime 4.6 billion years, out of which it has been inhabited by life for around 3.7 billion years. Mercilessly man has still to find any signs of life on other planets within out galaxy or indeed other galaxies. Earth the unique quality of having seen such vast amounts of species each so unique from the next that they might as well be alien. Nature, Mother Earth, God wherever name might be given to it. The system that runs our earth is perfect in its architecture with in its bounds it has existed for centuries, millennium and further in a fine balance. Each variable so delicate that if one is touch all others are effected.

Endangered species

2009-11-15T15:22:00.005+05:00

A fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of its amphibians, more than a quarter of its reptiles and up to 70% of its plants are under threat of extinction according to the red list (http://www.iucnredlist.org/)of threatened species, the latest annual survey compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (http://www.iucn.org/).The IUCN estimates that nearly 17,300 of the world's 47,677 assessed species are under threat of extinction.

The ecosystem is very fragile; the reason for this fragility is the connection of everything is linked. Humans are the most widespread and influential of all species. This interaction has led a lot of species to the brink of extinction. Although the list of species we have is still not completely catalogued. The list of species that are endangered seems to be on the rise. Destruction of habitat, shirking of food, changes in temperature, introduction of alien species into the food chain naming just a few basic reasons which are the cause of species on the endangered species list.

Ever since the first signs of life are traced on the planet there have been mass extensions, this is not a new phenomena. The disappearing of dinosaurs is the single biggest mass extinction on record. However extinction of species has always been in accordance to the evolutionary paths it follows. The difference this time is that Man is the cause of all the species indifference.

Composting aka life

2009-11-15T13:52:00.005+05:00

Composting frankly is expansive then not composting, but still we should practice composting regularly cos composting is purposeful and pays back in the longer run. Composting was being practiced by the ancient Romans and there are traces of practicing composting in many religious scriptures.

Composting occurs due to the activity of microorganisms available in the soil & organic materials. Composting is nature’s recycling process that helps break down organic materials into a nutrient rich soil like substance that is extremely good for plant growth. Some argue that nature does not compost, it only mulches. Well mulching it’s self is the most basic form of composting. Through mulching nature not only saves the fertile layers of soil in the forest from washing away but also maintains a constant cycle of composting. Last weeks mulch would be today’s compost. As composting creates the skin [top soil] in nature so it’s wise to starts composting with the skin of our organic trash.

What to compost:

Composting can turn a lot of our organic trash into fertile organic goodness. If you live in a developing or a third world country then you could do a lot of composting compared to the people who live in developed countries with processed & caned food. Fruit & vegetable peels along with egg shells and dead leaves are some very basic composting ingredients that come out of our kitchens almost every day.

Where to compost:

Compost in your back yard or on your roof top or even in your garage.

Composting pot & process:

If your intend to start with kitchen based composting, a couple of large terracotta pot should be your basic apparatus, placed on top of each other with table tennis ball sized hole at the base of the top one. Now start dumping your organic raw kitchen waste except flesh into the top pot and cover it with your grass clippings or dead leaves and if you feel that the materials are too dry simply sprinkle some water. After about a couple of weeks start shaking the top pot and the broken down compost would pour down to the bottom pot which could be later on used to feed plants and vegetables.

Composting means Life:

A single spade from the middle of a compost bin contains more species of organisms than can be found above ground in the entire Amazon rain forest.

Green tips of the day

2009-07-14T18:35:00.000+06:00

wooden cell phone

2009-07-08T17:17:00.002+06:00

A cell phone with wooden case could be a great fun and has the capacity to elude the market. Even though there are no technical specifications available at the moment, but its sleek and cool design is enough to grab the consumers’ eye.

eco-friendly fabric

2009-07-08T17:10:00.005+06:00

Singtex Industrial Co., a world-renowned Taiwanese company known for producing functional fabrics, is out with its groundbreaking idea. The company developed a new eco-friendly product that uses fibers made from waste coffee grounds. The fabric, called “S.Cafe” is a result of three years dedication and efforts of the company to transform waste coffee grounds into eco-friendly fabric.

The eco fabric from coffee grounds has unique qualities like they dry quickly, controls odors and offers UV protection. All these aspects contribute to making the fabric eco-friendly, which the company loves to flaunt. A patented process turns the coffee grounds into yarn, which is then used to produce many styles of knitted and woven fabrics, as well as soft shell eco fabrics.

Unlike other yarns, the eco fabric is totally chemical-free and does not use any kind of unsafe materials. The process of converting the coffee grounds into fabric does not require high temperature carbonization, hence is energy efficient. One medium sized cup of the coffee grounds is capable of producing two T-shirts. As far as the washing of the eco-friendly fabric is concerned, it can be washed using plain water without any detergent.

Eco Burials

2009-07-08T17:02:00.001+06:00

Biodegradable coffins made from banana sheaves promise green burials.

For those of you who are trying to save the environment at all times and want your burial to be just as green as your life, Ecoffins USA has developed biodegradable caskets made from banana sheaves. The caskets take six to 24-months to biodegrade and the company developing the caskets has already sold $40,000 worth of banana-sheaf and bamboo coffins to funeral homes.

The company claims that biodegradable coffins are easier on the environment and doesn’t require the body to be embalmed, and it too like the coffin decomposes into the earth

Michale Jackson Funeral

2009-07-08T00:45:00.001+06:00

Michale Jackson Funeral on its way and the internet grinds yet again. About 25 mins ago Michale Jackson Funeral turned into a memorial service as the Michael Jackson's body form a motorcade as they drive away from the Forest Lawn cemetery following a private memorial service for the pop star.

Energy saving tip of the day

2009-07-03T18:39:00.000+06:00

Algae farm to convert CO2 to ethanol for fuel and plastic

2009-06-29T22:46:00.005+06:00

Algae to be used for cheap ethanol production.

In an effort to fuel the world with clean and cheap energy, Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels have partnered to build algae farms that can convert carbon dioxide into ethanol, which can either be used to power vehicles or can also be used to produce plastic by replacing the use of natural gas. The team has announced that they will build a demonstration plant that would effectively convert CO2 into fuel.

The plant is worth applause not just because of the end result, but also because algae cultivation doesn’t require much space and the output can be produced in an efficient manner. The companies plan to grow algae in “bioreactors,” which are actually troughs covered with flexible plastic and filled with saltwater. The water is saturated with carbon dioxide, which helps algae grow. The algae that grows inside these bioreactors uses photosynthesis to convert CO2 and water into ethanol, oxygen and fresh water.

The oxygen generated can be used to burn coal in a power plant in a much cleaner way, and the carbon dioxide emitted by the burning of coal can in turn be fed into the algae bioreactor for the process to continue in a carbon neutral way. Currently the company has about 40 bioreactors in Florida and they plan to install 3,100 units on a 24-acre site at Dow’s Freeport, Tex., site. Algenol Biofuels believes that their demonstration plant can produce over 100,000 gallons of ethanol each year with the cost being as low as $1 a gallon.

Energy saving tip of the day

2009-06-26T20:35:00.000+06:00

MICHAEL JACKSON WAS POISONED

2009-06-26T05:48:00.003+06:00

MICHAEL JACKSON WAS POISONED SAID BRAIN OXMAN IN HIDDEN WORDS. MICHAEL JACKSON'S FRIEND BRAIN OXMAN IN AN INTERVIEW TO CNN ABOUT 30 MIN AGO SAID THAT MICHAEL JACKSON WAS POISONED WITH BAD MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION. MICHAEL JACKSON'S DEATH WAS CONFIRMED ABOUT 15 MIN AGO ON CNN.

CNN JUST CONFIRMED THAT MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD

2009-06-26T05:25:00.003+06:00

CNN JUST CONFIRMED THAT MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD ABOUT 1 MIN AGO! JIM OF CNN CONFIRMED THAT MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD. CNN ALSO STATED THAT MICHAEL JACKSON WAS IN BAD HEALTH AS MICHAEL JACKSON'S FRIEND AND ATTORNEY BRAIN OXMAN SAID IN AN INTERVIEW ABT 10 MIN AGO.

MICHAEL JACKSON DEATH BRAIN OXMAN AND RANDY JACKSON CRIED

2009-06-26T05:11:00.008+06:00

MICHAEL JACKSON FRIEND BRAIN OXMAN AND MICHAEL JACKSON BROTHER RANDY JACKSON CRIED 10 MIN AGO AT UCLA MEDICAL CENTER IN L.A. MICHAEL JACKSON FRIEND BRAIN SAID THAT MICHAEL JACKSON WAS PHYSICALLY WEEK AND WAS TAKING AN INTENSIVE AMOUNT OF MEDICATION. MICHAEL JACKSON FRIEND BRAIN OXMAN SAID HE WAS ALWAYS AFRAID OF HIS DEATH AND IS NOW OUT SIDE THE UCLA MEDICAL CENTER BECAUSE HE CANT GET RECEPTION OUT SIDE. MICHAEL JACKSON FRIEND BRAIN OXMAN IS JACKSON FAMILY'S ATTORNEY.

IS MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD

2009-06-26T04:57:00.002+06:00

MICHAEL JACKSON IS BEING REPORTED DEAD. MICHAEL JACKSON WAS RUSHED TO UCLA MEDICAL CENTER IN L.A. MICHAEL JACKSON WAS RUSHED TO UCLA MEDICAL CENTER FOR A CARDIAC ARREST. MICHAEL JACKSON WAS ALMOST 51. MICHAEL JACKSON WAS RUSHE IN A PERAMADICS VAN THAT SAID 71 ON ITS BACK. POLICE HAS BLOCKED MICHAEL JACKSON HOUSE AND MICHAEL JACKSON FANS ARE GATHERED AROUND UCLA MEDICAL CENTER IN L.A. MICHAEL JACKSON FAMILY HAS YET NO CONFIRMED MICHAEL JACKSON DEATH AND THE HOSPITAL CANT CONFIRM UNDER HIPAA LAW.MICHAEL JACKSON DEATH HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED BY CNN AS YET.

treeda the eco car

2009-06-25T10:51:00.002+06:00

Energy Saving tip of the day

2009-06-25T10:49:00.001+06:00

Joke of the day: 25-06-09

2009-06-25T09:03:00.001+06:00

Q: What did the lightbulb say when it was switched off?

A: “I’m delighted!”

Comic of the day: 25-06-09

2009-06-25T08:58:00.002+06:00

Wood iPod Puts Nature In the Palm Of Your Hand

2009-06-24T20:21:00.006+06:00

iPod is almost like hugging a tree, except it fits in the palm of your hand. So perhaps it’s more like giving a tree a handshake and hearing your favorite tunes at the same time. Josh D, from Australia, took his Apple iPod Mini apart and built a brand new case from red cedar to update the otherwise outdated gadget into a stylish, natural, and woodsy
Rather than just recycling his old trusty iPod Mini when Josh got a new one, he decided to take care of a little mini project he had been meaning to do for some time. He took apart the Mini, removed the original cover and designed a new hardwood case using the original guts of the iPod. With the use of his trusty Dremel tool, he retooled a hardwood cover out of Australian Red Cedar and a clickwheel out of Camphor Laurel. Josh used brass plates for the bottom and top as well as brass screws to keep it all together.

The crafting of the clickwheel seems to be the most impressive aspect of the project. Josh shaved down the circular wooden piece to just a few millimeters thick and used double sided tape to adhere it to the iPod electronics. In his words, “the wooden clickwheel ended up being just as responsive as the original plastic clickwheel. I ended up shaving the clickwheel to only a couple millimetres thick, and the ipod’s sensor picks up the signal no worries.” There’s even wooden accessories to go along with it - Josh re-coverd the iTrip module in Light Red Cedar as well as the iPod mini dock in Camphor Laurel.

The result is a beautifully finished piece that is likely to long outlast its cheap plastic counterparts, and would go perfectly with a set of slick wood speakers. We hope John will continue to update the casing with the latest guts, and compost it once it has lived through its useful lifecycle.

(Energy saving tip of the day)

2009-06-24T20:12:00.000+06:00

world’s largest solar project

2009-06-24T19:50:00.002+06:00

World’s largest solar power plant to be constructed in Sahara.

Taking advantage of the dryness of Sahara Desert, renewable energy giants are prepping up the installation of the world’s largest solar power plant that collectively will generate a whopping 100GW of concentrating solar power. Promoted by Desertec Foundation, the plant will be built by 20 blue chip German companies, who would be gathering together to discuss plans and investments to create the massive project.

The companies involved in the planning state that similar installations have to be constructed to end the gripping energy crisis. The €400bn project would take 10-15 years to go online, but once constructed it will help other countries of the world to aim towards renewable energy generating plants to end their dependence on fossil fuels.

Unlike other solar power plants, which are usually built on a single location, this massive plant would be scattered throughout politically stable countries in northern Africa. The collective output of the plant would be 80 times larger than a similar plant being planned for the Mojave Desert. The power output would be transported across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe on high-voltage DC lines that will finally supply 15% of the energy demand.

Joke of the day: 24-06-09

2009-06-24T17:41:00.000+06:00

An environmentalist dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an environmentalist -- you're in the wrong place." Thinking that heaven could never make an error, the environmentalist reports to the gates of hell and is let in.

Pretty soon, the environmentalist gets dissatisfied with the environment in hell, and starts implementing eco-friendly improvements. After a while, global warming, air and water pollution are under control. The landscape is covered with grass and plants, the food is organic and the people are happy. The environmentalist has become a pretty popular guy.

One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've clean air and water, the temperature is better and the food tastes better, and there's no telling what this environmentalist is going to fix next."

God replies, "What??? You've got an environmentalist? That's a mistake - he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan says, "No way. I like having an environmentalist on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?

Picture of the day: 24-06-09

2009-06-24T17:37:00.003+06:00

Energy saving tip of the day

2009-06-23T17:16:00.003+06:00

Water pipe insulation tubes, insulate your hot water pipes coming out of your hot water tank. This helps reduce heat loss from the pipes

(World’s fastest electric airplane hits the sky)

2009-06-22T20:31:00.006+06:00

Research indicates that aviation is the fastest growing source of CO2 and with more and more people opting for the fastest way to commute, the figures are bound to reach staggering heights in the next couple of decades. Greening airplanes isn’t an easy and a practically feasible task considering the demand for speedier planes is ever increasing. SkySpark, which took the sky for the first time on June 10, is definitely a stepping stone toward greener aviation.

The 100% electricity-powered airplane made a world record by reaching a top speed of 250km/h. The airplane is a specially built Pioneer Alpi 300, which is now powered by a 75KW brushless electric motor fueled by an array of lithium-polymer batteries. The team behind the development is looking forward for better range and more speed using engine technology that runs on hydrogen fuel cells.

Deborah – the Recycled Airplane Wing Desk

2009-06-22T19:59:00.006+06:00

If you were told that a recycled desk would cost you $5000, then you would obviously think we are crazy or kidding. But that’s no ordinary desk. The creative folks from Reestore have once again conjured up recycling innovation with aviation trash to create a desk out of an old airplane wing. Dubbed Deborah, it looks unusual for an office desk, but the appeal of setting your files on an old Boeing 747 wing is an alluring prospect indeed.

Initially crafted for business tycoon Theo Paphitis, Reestore is now going commercial with this expensive, yet exclusive desk. Supported by stainless steel legs and topped with toughened glass, the desk measures in at 2100mm x 1000mm x 900mm.

Recycle and reuse is a concept that is not very popular in the aviation industry and that is one of the reasons why it gets plenty of slack. I guess Reestore is giving them a whole new way of reducing waste and making some profits too!

Comic of the day: 6-21-2009

2009-06-21T06:22:00.001+06:00

Green joke of the day: 6-21-2009

2009-06-21T05:51:00.003+06:00

President Obama is starting to get concerned about global warning, which is why he's trying to rekindle the COLD war.
Source :  Jay Leno  

Playfully stylish home furniture

2009-06-20T13:56:00.001+06:00

Nitidus by SturlesiDesign is one playfully stylish seating system to compliment any modern home décor. Lounge chair/seat with a transparent polymer filled with sand and a sustainable material lets you playfully relax and have a sip of coffee. Available in white and black finish, this smart home furniture asks you to insert the ball cum seating in the space provided or anywhere around it, choice is entirely yours.

A green thrill

2009-06-20T13:20:00.001+06:00

Niklas Palm, a design student at the Umeå Institute of Design, has shared with us his latest creation, the Audi IceKraft_, which is a wind and solar powered vehicle to make your icy rides green. The vehicle has a computer-controlled sail that is connected to an electrical engine that turns the sail to the optimum position. The power comes from solar cells that are covering the entire body of the vehicle.
The driver is positioned on his stomach facing forward and controls the Icekraft_ with two handles attached to the front blades. When for example the left handle is pulled toward the driver’s body, the vehicle leans to the left and creates a carving effect that makes the vehicle turn left.

A private solar shower

2009-06-19T22:55:00.001+06:00

Changing your attire on the beach with a more relaxing outfit hasn’t been possible, unless you are one of those who don’t mind undressing in front of hundreds of individuals. Guide Gear has unveiled a new product that becomes your personal cabin and bathroom in seconds. The easy to carry shelter only needs some unzipping at the beach to get converted to a 4X4X6.6 feet cabin.

Apart from providing you with the much needed privacy, the portable shelter is also equipped with a 5-gallon PVC Solar Shower, which harnesses heat from the sun to give you a good relaxing shower or a nice rinse in the sandy beach environment. The system is constructed with a fiberglass-pole frame that provides the adequate level of stability.

Dirty Industries Have a Long Tail of Consequences

2009-06-19T20:22:00.001+06:00

In recent years there has been a great deal of national attention focused on the improvement of industrial environmental standards. Even as we attempt to rebuild our economy, we seem to be focused on not only restoring industry, but also using this as an opportunity to do it in a way that is not environmentally destructive. This provides us the opportunity to improve all aspects of these industries, including the workplace hazards among workers and the health hazards affecting members of the surrounding communities that were all too common.

What many people may fail to realize is that not only does the health of our planet depend on improved environmental standards, but our health may as well. Health complications of industry can essentially be divided into two categories, both direct and indirect.

Direct health conditions which have arisen as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, for instant, are increased asthmas rates in areas with high smog indices. Even mild cases of asthma can deteriorate overall respiratory capacity over time and leave breathing seriously diminished if the quality of the air people breathe is unimproved. Release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere has shown to lower our filtered sunlight, increasing ultraviolet light exposure. Ultraviolet light has been conclusively link to skin cancer. Perhaps it is no surprise then that skin cancer incidence in countries like South Africa and Australia, where the atmosphere is most diminished, is much higher than other areas of the earth.

Indirect health consequences include those which can be attributed to antiquated industrial infrastructure, including toxin exposure among workers. Oil refinery workers, for instance, are shown to have a much higher chance of developing mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, than those in cleaner industries. While asbestos was banned for most uses in the late 1970s several of these refineries and factories are still using pre-ban equipment which is exposing workers to harmful asbestos fibers.

We see then, that there is a clear advantage to implementation of cleaner, more sustainable energy policies and environmental attitudes, not only for the health or our planet and our posterity, but that of world’s population even today.

June 18, 2009

Written by Bill Hawthorne, representative of maacenter, the web's leading organization for relevant and authoritative information regarding asbestos and health complications associated with asbestos exposure, including the rare cancer mesothelioma. Our organization is staffed entirely by writers and other developers who recognize the importance of building awareness in the fight against cancer.

Green Living--Improving Health Today and Tomorrow

2009-06-19T00:45:00.001+06:00

Much attention has been paid in recent years to what seems to be a growing environmental conscience in the United States. Going green used to be considered expensive and a luxury for those who could afford the trend. Now it appears that we are learning that not only is adopting more environmentally conscious attitudes good for our economic situation, but also our….health? Yes, if we dig a bit deeper we can see that dirty industries and backwards policy is actually harming the health of the earth for our children and the health of her inhabitants today.

How Does Environmental Policy Affect Public Health?

There are two levels of health consequences associated with dirty industry, both direct and indirect. The direct consequences are examples like increased asthma rates in areas with high smog indices. Chlorofluorocarbon release into the atmosphere has shown to decrease the filter of direct sunlight on the planet, resulting in more concentrated ultraviolet light reaching the surface of the earth. Perhaps it is no surprise then that in countries with depleted atmospheric gas, skin cancer rates are among the highest in the world.

The indirect health consequences are harder to see immediately, but closer examination reveals that these are, in fact, perhaps the most hazardous. Bi-products of dirty and backwards industries, such as coal and oil processing, include cancer causing substances like asbestos and benzene. A U.K. study conducted in 2002 indicated that coal and oil industry workers are at a much higher risk of developing mesothelioma (associated with asbestos exposure) and leukemia (traced to benzene and heavy-metal exposure). Dr. Valerie Rusch among many other doctors who specialize in this area understand that these are substances that can be directly traced to antiquated pre-regulation equipment in industries whose environmental hazards are even more inherent.

Can we really afford to continue on the path we were on before? Investment in clean industry means not a healthier planet for our children and grandchildren, but also a healthier place for us to live today.

--June 18, 2009 Written by Bill Hawthorne with the maacenter

pcStudio creates a digital environment

2009-06-18T22:47:00.004+06:00

With the growing needs of modern education, technology has become an integral part of contemporary classrooms to complement conventional methods and compete with the best in business. Blending modern style with traditional structure, the “pcStudio” from Zukun Plan is common yet flexible school desks that molds conventional classrooms into a hi-tech computer lab, allowing teachers to control the class pace and organize content to all of the workstations in the classroom. Supporting a digital course structure, the pcStudio lets students download all the assignments onto a small flash drive, which they can install on their home PCs.

With latest developments of a particular subject or topic at their disposal, students can definitely enhance their knowledge and skills not only for examination but for job careers as well. Allowing students to display videos, web pages, text pages or notes, installed by the teacher, the pcStudio functions like a regular PC, enhancing their working computer skills without spending time and money for special computer courses. Moreover, the pcStudio comes with a touch sensitive display that permits the use of a stylus to write papers, solve math equations, highlight text and take notes, creating a digital classroom environment for students.

Energy starved New York

2009-06-18T22:42:00.002+06:00

High-flying kites could generate enough wind energy to power New York.

The energy starved world of today is looking for possible ways using which the maximum amount of renewable energy could be generated that could not just power a city block or a small town but the largest cities in the world and probably the entire world as well. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University have identified New York as one of the prime locations where high-flying kites can be used to convert high-altitude winds into energy.

Unlike winds close to the surface of earth, winds in the upper regions of the atmosphere preferably those which make the jet streams can be harnessed to produce tens of times of output than conventional wind turbines that are used on the surface. Ideally, the turbines, which would be high-altitude flying kites tethered to the surface, would have be placed at a height of around 30,000 feet.

Jet stream winds are generally 10 times faster than winds near the ground and most importantly they’re steady as well. More wind speed means more energy, which made scientists at these universities believe that they can power entire cities by flying these kites, a process which looks simple on paper but might get complicated if actually planned. These scientists predict up to 40MW of electricity can be generated by the current designs and transmitted to the ground via the tether, which is about four times the output of current designs used on the surface.

Jazib's Gone Green!

2009-06-15T16:35:00.004+06:00

Jazib's gone green with his Prefab office built out of an old shipping container, Jazib's prefab office is finished with cheap Formica :( and has a LU too!

Old shipping container being placed for Jazib's Prefab office!

Interior of Jazib's Prefab office

Jazib has a LU too! One wonders where does it flush to!

As a appreciation of going green GOD gifted Jazib with horns so splendid

And we at Sustainable Living Award you the Greenest personality of Mid term 09!

Toyota Prius Vs Honda Insight

2009-06-12T04:58:00.002+06:00

WHICH IS A BETTER CAR Toyota Prius OR Honda Insight. IS Toyota Prius GREENER THEN Honda Insight OR Honda Insight IS MORE EFFICIENT THE Toyota Prius
Toyota Prius Vs Honda Insight

INTRODUCING FIREWINDER

2009-06-11T16:28:00.005+06:00

FIREWINDER

FIREWINDER is an innovative ECO friendly light

FIREWINDER reacts to subtle variations in wind speed

FIREWINDER uses 14 ultra bright LED's

FIREWINDER is visible from 250m in high winds

FIREWINDER is 100% Wind Energy oriented

FIREWINDER uses Helical wing to capture Wind Energy

FIREWINDER is made up of recycled materials

FIREWINDER has a weather resistant desing

FIREWINDER has stainless steel fixing points

FIREWINDER has a quick release mounting system

FIREWINDER is clean and Green light

FIREWINDER represents the infinite supply of Renewable Energy.

Toyota Prefab Homes

2009-06-07T19:25:00.000+06:00

Toyota Prefab Homes sounds just rite simply because modern Japan is Prefab. Prefab Homes in Japan are being Manufactured and sold in mass by non-other then the automotive giant Toyota! In fact Toyota has been making & selling these Prefab Homes for the Past 20 years now. Well Toyota Prefab Homes sound just the thing for Japan not because Japan is a fast pace country but simply because Japan is an ever shacking country. While manufacturing the Prefab Homes Toyota adapts automobile manufacturing technology. This results in stylish, earthquake-resistant Prefab Homes in Japan.
Toyota Prefab Homes only make 0.5% of Toyota’s sales every year but with dropping car sales due to international recession Cheaper Toyota Prefab Homes might help support Toyota through the thin times. Toyota’s Prefab Homes are built from six or more modules in 45 days. These Prefab Homes have a conservative home model called the Smart Stage that sells for $200k & is about a 1000 sf, two-story home. More expensive, custom-built Prefab Home is 2600 sf that sells for around $800k. Toyota Prefab Homes are strong and guaranteed for about 60 years, which is twice the average lifespan of a home in Japan.
Toyota Prefab Homes were sold in large numbers between 2006 to 2009 some 15000. But what's interesting about Toyota Prefab Homes number is that it shows how effectively Prefab homes can be manufactured using the same techniques that are used in the auto industry. The Toyota Prefab Homes unit is profitable, and Green too as Toyota Prefab Homes compliment the plug-in hybrid Prius by Toyota.

Introducing Studio 804’s Springfield House

2009-06-07T02:46:00.000+06:00

Studio 804’s Springfield House is an eco-friendly house in Kansas City

Studio 804’s Springfield House meets LEED Platinum standards

Studio 804’s Springfield House is off course Off-Grid

Studio 804’s Springfield House has been designed & made by graduate students at the University of Kansas

Studio 804’s Springfield House is a two-story residence

Studio 804’s Springfield House is made mostly out of reclaimed wood of an old abandoned warehouse

Studio 804’s Springfield House is equipped with a radiant floor and geothermal heat pump

Studio 804’s Springfield House is designed for passive solar heating to keep it warm and comfortable during the winter

Studio 804’s Springfield House has a roof photovoltaic system and a vertical axis wind turbine which will allow it to operate off-grid

Studio 804’s Springfield House allows rain water to pass behind the screen where gutters and downspouts are hidden to carry rainwater to an underground rainwater reclamation system

Studio 804’s Springfield House is an impressive ECO Friendly House.

ECO KEYBOARD CHAIR

2009-06-06T23:31:00.004+06:00

An innovative chair designed from discarded keyboard keys.

Dante Bonuccelli and Lamn have come up with an exceptionally innovative eco idea of designing a stylish and modern KEYBOARD chair created from discarded keyboard keys. This incredible eco “text-ile chair” is a great idea saving on things that would otherwise go for a waste.

li and Lamn have come up with an exceptionally innovative eco idea of designing a stylish and modern KEYBOARD chair created from discarded keyboard keys. This incredible eco keyboard “text-ile chair” is a great idea saving on things that would otherwise go for a waste.

The eco keyboard chair is said to be comprising of 40 different keyboards. Though not much has been talked about the degree of comfort this chair has to offer but it definitely looks like a good piece of furniture that one can flaunt.
The eco keyboard chair is said to be comprising of 40 different keyboards. Though not much has been talked about the degree of comfort this eco keyboard chair has to offer but it definitely looks like a good piece of furniture that one can flaunt.

GLOBAL WARMING SHOCKER

2009-06-06T02:19:00.004+06:00

TO FIND MY GLOBAL WARMING SHOCKER PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW!

GLOBAL WARMING SHOCKER

MY GLOBAL WARMING SHOCKER IS THE AFTER EFFECT OF CALCULATING MY GLOBAL WARMING CONTRIBUTION.

Smart Meter Turkey

2009-06-05T07:10:00.002+06:00

Almost 1.5 million Smart Meter for gas/water/electricity were implemented by Elektromed in Turkey. 1 million of those Smart Meter are gas meters and the rest are prepayment electric and prepayment water meters. Number of prepayment Smart Meter for water will reach to 500.000 pieces at the end of 2008 which means highest record in the world for Smart Meters usage.

GLOBAL WARMING

2009-06-05T05:29:00.003+06:00

GLOBAL WARMING IS A REALITY.
GLOBAL WARMING IS A CHAIN REACTION.
GLOBAL WARMING IS TAKING IT TOLL ON MANKIND.
GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE STOPPED BY CONSCIOUS DECISIONS.

GLOBAL WARMING

2009-06-05T03:08:00.003+06:00

Global warming means increase in the average temperature of Earth’s surface air and oceans. Global warming is basically increasing greenhouse gas concentrations resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Due to Global Warming Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the last century. According to IPCC natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes produced most of the Global warming from pre-industrial times to 1950. Global warming increases with the increase in human’s carbon foot print. Global warming is a calculated and agreed upon phenomena and many are considering Global Warming as a bigger threat to man kind then a 3rd world war. Accusers accuse irresponsible human developmental and capitalism for Global warming. Honesty demands self accusation for Global warming as every action taken by man kind has a consequence and can contribute towards warming. ECO Watch dogs are blaming Global warming on major industrialized countries. Owing to Global warming an IPCC report indicate that global surface temperature will probably rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century. Increase in Global Warming will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts, as Global warming is causing continuous retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice is expected, with the Arctic region being particularly affected. Most studies about Global Warming focus on the period up to 2100. However, Global warming is expected to continue beyond 2100 even if emissions stop, because of the large heat capacity of the oceans and the long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Global Warming’s other likely effects include shrinkage of the Amazon rainforest and Boreal forests. Global Warming is being blamed for sudden increases in the intensity of extreme weather events such as floods, tsunamis and acidic rains. Extinctions of many species and changes in agricultural yields are credited on Global Warming too. Global warming continues to be a hot Political and public agenda.

Smart Meter North America

2009-06-04T17:41:00.002+06:00

Smart Meter Canada

Smart Meter technology in Canada has been developed by the Ontario Energy Board in Ontario. Canadian government deployed Smart Meters to 800,000 homes and small businesses in 2007.

A Smart Meter

Smart Meter United States

Smart Meter is actively pursued in Jurisdictions such as California are. Smart Meter was approved On July 20, 2006, by California's energy regulators to roll out conventional meters. Smart Meter in Northern California territory of PG&E reports electricity consumption on an hourly basis. This enables PG&E to set pricing that varies by season and time of the day, thus Smart Meter rewarding customers who shift energy use to off-peak periods. Other then Smart Meter the smart grid also allows PG&E to give customers timing and pricing options for upload to the grid.
Smart Meter was chosen by the largest municipal utility in the U.S the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), to expand its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) serving its commercial and industrial (C&I) customers. Smart Meter is creating potential for reducing their monthly electricity bill and, at a broader level, contributing to global energy conservation.

SMART METER ITALY

2009-06-04T17:22:00.003+06:00

Smart meter’s & largest "smartest" Smart Meter deployment was undertaken by Enel SpA, in Italy. It has about 27 million customers of Smart Meter. Between 2000 and 2005 Enel deployed Smart Meters to its entire customer base.
These Smart Meters are fully electronic and Smart, with integrated bi-directional communications, advanced power measurement and management capabilities. These Smart Meters are integrated with software-controllable disconnect switch, and an all solid-state design. These Smart Meters communicate over low voltage power line using standards-based power line technology from Echelon Corporation to Echelon data concentrators at which point they communicate via IP to Enel's enterprise servers.
This Smart Meter system provides a wide range of advanced features. Enel’s Smart Meters include the ability to remotely turn power on or off to a customer. These Smart Meters can read usage information from a meter & detect a service outage. Smart Meters could also detect the unauthorized use of electricity & change the maximum amount of electricity that a customer can demand at any time. Enel’s Smart Meters remotely change the meter's billing plan from credit to prepay as well as from flat-rate to multi-tariff.

Smart Meter

2009-06-04T16:47:00.004+06:00

Smart Meter is an advanced Meter usually an electrical Meter. Smart Meter identifies consumption in more detail than a conventional Meter. Smart Meter is also considered as ECO meters. By 2010, every home and small business in Ontario will have a Smart Meter as Smart Meters can manage and reduce your electricity costs. Smart Metering, is the new options for managing and reducing your electricity costs. Smart Meter also has a positive impact on the environment.

• Smart Meter Purpose
• Smart Meter Implementations
o Smart Meter Italy
o Smart Meter Canada
o Smart Meter United States
o Smart Meter Turkey
o Smart Meter Australia
o Smart Meter New Zealand
o Smart Meter Netherlands
o Smart Meter Nordic countries
• Smart Meter Imminent implementation
o Smart Meter Ireland
o Smart Meter United Kingdom
• Smart Meter Technology

Smart Meter Overview

Smart meter often refers to an electrical meter, but it can increasingly also mean a device measuring natural gas or water consumption. Term Smart meter, usually refers to an efficient meters. Smart Meters usually involve a different technology mix, such as real-time or near real-time sensors, power outage notification, and power quality monitoring. These additional features in Smart Meter are more than simple (AMR). Smart Meters are also believed to be a less costly alternative to traditional interval or time-of-use meters and are intended to be used on a wide scale with all customer classes, including residential customers. Smart meters may be part of a smart grid, but alone do not constitute a smart grid.

Smart Meter Purpose

Smart Meters can improve the inception of electricity deregulation. Government regulators have been looking for a means to match consumption with generation. Traditional electrical meters only measure total consumption. Smart Meters provide an economical way of measuring this information, Smart Meters allow price-setting agencies to introduce different prices for consumption based on the time of day and the season.

Smart Meter ECO Factor

Smart Meter is and Eco friendly product, simply because smart meter help us measure the consumption of energy and the loss of energy. Smart Meter not only measures the consumption of energy but also points at the loss of energy and helps us control theses losses.

GOING TOWARDS ELECTRIC CARS

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SOURCE: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html

HAVE YOU VISITED THESE TOP GREEN SITES

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These include.

Friends of the Earth

Inhabitat

EnviroGadget - Eco-Friendly Gadgets

CleanTechies

The Green Shopping Guide

A Self Sufficient Life

This is the list you must save. And visit these sites again if you like to. Friends of the Earth is UK's largest green site and it is one of the most popular site in the world.

Hope you enjoyed the list. If you know sites related to Green gadgets and anything really different throw a Green Link.

sustainable design

2009-05-29T22:43:00.009+06:00

Sustainable design of
Igloo created from bottles collected after the London Marathon

Have you ever thought about what happens to the thousands of plastic water bottles that are used during a marathon event? They’re mostly trashed if green-minded artists like Ashley Phillips aren’t around. The artist has shown his skills in designing a sustainable shelter known as the “Igloo” from the plastic waste collected after the London Marathon.

The Igloo bottle shelter was created to make use of plastic bottle waste that has started to blight the environment and also inspire others about circular metabolism. The igloo shelter has been created from over 4,000 plastic bottles that are held together by only one piece of wire and 40,000 rubber bands that are sourced from sustainable plantations. The plastic bottle shelter can easily be disassembled and can be mounted on a small trolley to ease its transportation.

So start doing something sustainable with your palstic bottles today and make world a green place to live.

Growing Chair - Straight from the fields to your home

2009-05-27T22:29:00.002+06:00

Eco Factor: Willow trees are planted together with a Russian vine in a chair shaped miniature greenhouse.

Michel Bussien’s Growing Chair was on exhibit at Konstfack’s spring exhibition this month. As the name suggests, it does grow up for you with the passage of time. Chair is a sort of green house that contains Willow trees planted together with a Russian vine. Nothing much to surprise as it’s a sort of experiment in which an attempt is being made to make trees and plants grow up into chairs like a crop in the fields.

Idea suggests that when required, these can be harvested and brought straight from the field into the living room. What makes it possible to shape a growing structure into chair is a potter called Bactopia. It uses a mixture of Agar and bacteria. All the layers of Agar, stacked on each other, form a three dimensional structure when bacteria are spread all over it. Simply, instead if printing with plastic or other materials, structure is printed with living bacteria that is provided with favorable conditions for further growth. Bacteria that can be fed upon mixture of nutrients and draw materials, like Calcium, are considered best for such a work. After the bacteria dies it leaves a solid structure behind. What I could get out of this experiment is that designer wants to remind us of our relation with the nature.

Window farming

2009-05-25T21:45:00.006+06:00

I am big fan of having own farms but was lacking space in my backyard but this remarkable experiment of sustainability by Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray came with the soluition, during in an article posted on inhabitat by Olivia Chen tells the mystery

Gardening enthusiasts living in cities will certainly cheer for Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray’s Window Farms experiment. The artist-in-residence duo at Eyebeam have teamed up to develop a DIY system for creating sustainable gardens that will enable anyone to start their own window farms right in their very own window. Britta and Rebecca were showcasing their prototype at Eyebeam last week and have enlisted a dozen or so volunteers that are building their own farms — all to go on display in windows throughout NYC from May 31 to July 14.

The window farms that we saw at Eyebeam was composed of several vertical columns with re-purposed water bottles that each held a potted plant. The set-up of these window farms also included a tub of water elevated above the vertical farm garden that allowed water to drip through the columns a catch basin was also placed at the bottom to catch the water that was not absorbed by the plants. Britta and Rebecca also told us that at home, they use a pump to cycle the water back through the system.

Although the primary intention of the project is to prove that individuals can develop their own systems for growing food in their NYC (or other tiny) apartment, Britta and Rebecca see this project as part of their greater interest in something they call R&DIY, which stands for Research and Do-It-Yourself. Britta and Rebecca worked with a group at Eyebeam to develop experimental of window farms. By engaging a community with their urban agriculture sustainability experiment, the duo is out to show that this group method can become part of a greater trend towards the use of window farming.

Water Renewable Energy

2009-05-19T04:37:00.002+06:00

Hydropower

Renewable Energy in water can be harnessed and used as water is about 800 times denser than air. Even a slow flowing stream of water, or moderate sea swell, can yield considerable amounts of renewable energy.
There are many forms of water renewable energy:
• Hydroelectric renewable energy is a term usually reserved for large-scale hydroelectric dams. Examples are the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State and the Akosombo Dam in Ghana.
• Micro hydro renewable energy systems are hydroelectric power installations that typically produce up to 100 kW of power.
• Dam less hydro systems derive kinetic renewable energy from rivers and oceans without using a dam.
• Ocean renewable energy describes all the technologies to harness energy from the ocean and the sea.
o Renewable energy in marine current power, uses the kinetic renewable energy of marine currents.
o Tidal power captures renewable energy from the tides. Two different principles for generating renewable energy from the tides are used at the moment:
Tidal motion in the vertical direction: Tides come in, raise water levels in a basin, and tides roll out. Around low tide, the water in the basin is discharged through a turbine, exploiting the stored potential renewable energy.
Tidal motion in the horizontal direction: Uses tidal stream generators, like wind turbines but then in a tidal stream. Due to the high density of water, about eight-hundred times the density of air, tidal currents can have a lot of kinetic renewable energy.
o Renewable energy in wave power uses the energy in waves. Wave power machines usually take the form of floating or neutrally buoyant structures, which move relative to one another or to a fixed point. Renewable energy wave has now reached commercialization.
• Renewable energy in deep lake water cooling is an interesting phenomenon, although not technically an energy generation method, can save a lot of energy in summer. It uses submerged pipes as a heat sink for climate control systems. Lake-bottom water is a year-round local constant of about 4 °C.
Water has a lot of potential for producing green clean renewable energy, Dams and barrages all over the world are producing huge amount of Electricity and has hardly any carbon emissions.

Wind renewable energy

2009-05-18T03:20:00.003+06:00

Wind renewable energy in airflows can be used to run wind turbines. Modern wind energy turbines range from around 600 kW to 5 MW of rated power, although wind turbines with rated output of 1.5–3 MW have become the most common for commercial use. The power output of a wind turbine is a function of the cube of the wind speed, so as wind speed increases, power output of a wind turbine increases dramatically. Wind energy can be used in areas where winds are stronger and more constant, such as offshore and high altitude, are perfect wind energy farms.
Since wind speed is not constant, a wind farm's annual energy production of wind energy farms is never as much as the sum of the generator nameplate ratings multiplied by the total hours in a year. The ratio of actual wind energy farm productivity in a year to this theoretical maximum is called the capacity factor. Typical capacity factors of wind energy farms are 20-40%, with values at the upper end of the range in particularly favourable wind energy sites.
For example, a 1 megawatt wind energy turbine with a capacity factor of 35% will not produce 8,760 megawatt-hours of wind renewable electricity in a year, but only 0.35x24x365 = 3,066 MWh, averaging to 0.35 MW of wind energy.
Globally, the long-term technical potential of wind energy is believed to be five times total current global energy production, or 40 times current electricity demand. This could require large amounts of land for wind energy turbines, particularly in areas of higher wind resources. Offshore resources experience mean wind speeds of ~90% greater than that of land, so offshore resources could contribute substantially more renewable energy. This number could also increase with higher altitude ground-based or airborne wind energy turbines.
Wind energy is renewable and produces no greenhouse gases during operation, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Sustainable design tennis ball chair

2009-05-12T21:28:00.013+06:00

In a sustainable design article posted by Yuka Yoneda on inhabitat . Yuka tells us how to be sustainable enough to fight the ever increasing global warming by using recycled material.
What do you think of when you think “green design?” Probably not a chair made entirely of recycled tennis balls! This sustainable and unexpected take on recycling by furniture designer Hugh Hayden maker of this playful FUNATURE Tennis Ball Chair and also the winner of BKLYN Designs Most Innovative Use of Materials Award. He used medium size (297 repurposed tennis balls) to make it smart and simple, it’s also fun and sustainable and when it comes to getting people talking about sustainable design, the Tennis Ball Chair is the perfect eco conversation piece.

Why tennis balls? Their high turnover during matches means that a huge number of the fuzzy lime green spheres get discarded despite their being practically new. Recognizing the durability of the tennis balls, as well as the need to salvage them from getting burnt or dumped, Hayden decided to use them to craft a tongue-in-cheek chair that is surprisingly comfortable to sit .

Since the main component of the chairs already exists and does not need to be produced or processed, it is even more sustainable than some of the materials we usually consider to be extremely sustainable. And in terms of being delightful to look at, the Tennis Ball Chair takes the cake. From this sustainable art piece we can smell that Hugh and the Wimbledon have collaborations? It would certainly a sustainable match (point) scored by them

Natural resources of renewable energy

2009-05-12T05:38:00.003+06:00

The majority of renewable energy technologies are powered by the sun. Earth’s atmosphere system is in equilibrium such that heat radiation into space is equal to incoming solar radiation, the resulting level of energy within the Earth-Atmosphere system can roughly be described as the Earth's "climate. Energy is dissipated around the globe in the form of winds and ocean currents. Wave motion may play a role in the process of transferring mechanical energy between the atmosphere and the ocean through wind stress. Solar energy is also responsible for this distribution.
Renewable energy flows involve natural phenomena such as sunlight, wind, tides, geothermal heat all of these are producers of renewable energy.
"Renewable energy is derived from natural processes that are replenished constantly. Renewable energy in its various forms is derived directly from the sun, or from heat generated deep within the earth. Thus renewable energy is generated from solar, wind, ocean, hydro power, biomass, geothermal resources, and biofuels along hydrogen derived from renewable resources.

99 Renewable Energy Gadgets

2009-05-05T16:05:00.110+06:00

Renewable Energy Gadget No # 1
BPL’s solar power study lamp uses Renewable Energy to function; with the help of solar panel

Renewable Energy Gadget No # 2

Energy-generating chair uses kinematic renewable energy to produce energy while you rock

Renewable Energy Gadget No # 3
Bike-mounted uses harnessing system to produce remewable energy

Renewable Energy Gadget No # 4
These Solar Lights use renewable energy, (polyurethane and polycarbonate )to illuminate paths.

Renewable energy gadget # 5
Solar plant generates Renewable energy used as electricity for gadgets

Renewable energy gadget # 6

Rotating door harvests renewable energy of people passing through by kineticism

Renewable energy gadget # 7
Nano-scale piezoelectric uses generators to produce renewable energy by motion

Renewable energy gadget # 8
Lenovo T40 ThinkPad uses methanol to convert it into renewable energy to run it

Renewable energy gadget # 9
Fuel Cell Boilers uses a combination of heat and power to generate Renewable energy.

Renewable energy gadget # 10
Renewable energy powered watch that holds pictures on moving round

Renewable energy gadget # 11
Renewable energy powered Bible uses sun or light to get fully charged

Renewable energy gadget # 12
The led capsules emits great light stored from renewable energy of the sun.

Renewable energy gadget # 13
The charger uses renewable energy of the wind to charge your mobile

Renewable energy gadget # 14
The stylus based slate uses renewable energy to run as the solar panels.

Renewable energy gadget # 15
Electrolux Ultra Silencer uses renewable energy like the lamps to charged and clean

Renewable energy gadget # 16
sugar fueled Bio Charger uses renewable energy like sugar solution to work.

Renewable energy gadget # 17
The umbrella uses thin film renewable energy recently developed by Nanosolar as the fabric.

Renewable energy gadget # 18
the device uses kinetic energy while you jog to convert it into renewable energy

Renewable energy gadget # 19
solar-powered PhotoCYL generator uses sunlight to convert in to renewable energy as electricity

Renewable energy gadget # 20
The mazda Rx-8 uses hydrogen as renewable energy to run

Renewable energy gadget # 21
Ecoboard is based on renewable energy using recycled coffee cups and bamboo for it’s development

Renewable energy gadget # 22
self-healing plastic uses heat as renewable energy to recover it self to be used in other portable gadgets

Renewable energy gadget # 23
hand-bag made from recycled aluminum pull-tabs is a great form of renewable energy

Renewable energy gadget # 24
The aqua hub uses the uses as renewable energy to save energy as water

Renewable energy gadget # 25
River gym works from renewable energy taken from your sweat and your abs-crunching and muscle flexing energy.

Renewable energy gadget # 26
SunCat 23 utilizes four solar panels capable of generating renewable energy to fuel a 2.8KW electric outdoor motor

Renewable energy gadget # 27
The powered golf cart uses methane taken from cow as a form of renewable energy to run it.

Renewable energy gadget # 28
Fujitsu FMV-BIBLO LOOX U/C50NA use wind as renewable energy to work.

Renewable energy gadget # 29
ecofriendly surfboards uses recycled wood as renewable energy

Renewable energy gadget # 30
Solaqua uses solar energy as a form of renewable energy to purify

Renewable energy gadget # 31
The lightship uses solar suction cups as renewable energy to glow .

Renewable energy gadget # 32
The solar purse uses Voltaic Systems and Burton’s Solar Roll as renewable form of energy sources.

Renewable energy gadget # 33
POWERleap uses stampede of commuters for renewable energy.

Renewable energy gadget # 34
Solio Universal Hybrid Charger uses the sun as renewable energy source to charge everthing it can.

Renewable energy gadget # 35
Solar Car Fan
Uses solar panels as renewable energy to cool the car.

Renewable energy gadget # 36
This bamboo fan cap charges it self from renewable energy of the sun to provide you shade.

Renewable energy gadget # 37
The Rodent Repeller uses renewable energy of the sun ray’s to work

Renewable energy gadget # 38
The wireless keyboard uses solar panel as renewable energy for function.

Renewable energy gadget # 39
The solar heater gets renewable energy from the sun to give you hot water.

Renewable energy gadget # 40
The player uses wind as a source of renewable energy to play.

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Renewable energy gadget # 41
The natural Sun device requires solar cell as form of renewable energy.

Renewable energy gadget # 42
These solar street stops uses the as sun as renewable energy to make electricity.

Renewable energy gadget # 43
The blue clock uses water, table salt and lemon juice as renewable energy to keep time

Renewable energy gadget # 44
The magnetic charger charges through motion as renewable energy gadget.

Renewable energy gadget # 45
The solar pot get charged from sun rays as renewable energy.

Renewable energy gadget # 46

Blue Earth is the world’s first renewable energy solar touch phone

Renewable energy gadget # 47

Magnetic Fridge runs by Renewable e magnetic energy to work.

Renewable energy gadget # 48

Expresso uses hot water as renewable energy make express coffee.

Renewable energy gadget # 49

Gravia Floor Lamp uses gravity as a source of renewable energy to lite.

Renewable energy gadget #50

Twist Camera, works on renewable energy when twisted to function.

Renewable energy gadget #51

The after lite bulb uses renewable energy of light to glow

Renewable energy gadget #52

The charger works on renewable energy on twisting to charge your i.pods

Renewable energy gadget #53

The pilot fish is renewable energy solar charged phone which uses the sun energy

Renewable energy gadget #54

Renault E0 works on renewable energy concept using solar panel roof.

Renewable energy gadget #55

The marine ventilator uses wind as renewable energy to work.

Renewable energy gadget #56

The stove uses corn renewable energy as fuel to make bar-b.q

Renewable energy gadget #57

The batteries uses fossil fuel as renewable energy to charge laptops etc.

Renewable energy gadget #58

The oven uses Sun as renewable energy source to cook

Renewable energy gadget #59

The candle uses solar power renewable energy of the sun to work

Renewable energy gadget #60

The filter performs on renewable energy features and recycling to filter water.

Renewable energy gadget #61

Solar-powered speaker uses renewable energy concept with solar panels.

Renewable energy gadget #62

The Iqua Vizor SUN is a solar-powered renewable energy gadget works with solar panels on the car roof.

Renewable energy gadget #63

The flex Scan uses motion as renewable energy source to save energy and charge.

Renewable energy gadget #64

The lamp is a form of renewable energy made from wood and carpet.

Renewable energy gadget #65

The laser light is a form of renewable energy charged by manual power ti light up.

Renewable energy gadget #66

The Olio solar powered window panes is a form of renewable energy

Renewable energy gadget #67

KDDI uses sun’s renewable energy to work with buit in solar panels.

Renewable energy gadget # 68
The renewable energy solar bee uses sun to filter water.

Renewable energy gadget #69

The cooker uses renewable energy of the sun to cook with solar panels.

Renewable energy gadget #70
The renewable energy based radio and flash lite works and generate power on motion.

Renewable energy gadget #71

The solar powered renewable energy bike stand works with the sun rays.

Renewable energy gadget # 72

The sun based renewable energy gadget works on solar energy to illuminate.

Renewable energy gadget #73

The renewable energy batteries uses metallic liquid to produce electricity.

Renewable energy gadget #74

The renewable energy cells use solar energy to charge.

Renewable energy gadget #75

The turbine uses renewable energy of watr pressure to make electicity.

Renewable energy gadget #76

The bike is a renewable energy power house uses wind and solar energy to store electricity.

Renewable energy gadget #77

The socket uses energy of home appliances to renewable energy and produce electricity.

Renewable energy gadget #78

The floppy lamp is a great form of renewable energy used from recycled material.

Renewable energy gadget #79

The MSI computer sustem uses light as renewable energy to run for hours.

Renewable energy gadget #80

The rain water system is a concept of renewable energy which stores rain water rather than wasting

Renewable energy gadget # 81
The solar necklace is a renewable energy gadget that uses sun to shine the party.

Renewable energy gadget # 82
The eco boat uses renewable energy of your grooves to sail

Renewable energy gadget # 83
The solar cells are a source of renewable energy which can be printed on anything.

Renewable energy gadget # 84
The renewable energy water dispenser (AWT) uses humid air to provide you water.

Renewable energy gadget # 85
The grey way harvesting renewable energy system uses gutter water to provide us with clean.

Renewable energy gadget #86
The sun cat renewable energy ship uses solar energy to work.

Renewable energy gadget # 87
The bud uses renewable energy attached to the usb to clean bacteria.

Renewable energy gadget # 88
The Chinese toy now uses renewable energy and converts mechanical to electrical energy.

Renewable energy gadget # 89
The lantern is renewable energy takes from the sun to charge.

Renewable energy gadget # 90
The vibrator uses renewable wind energy to vibrate.

Renewable energy gadget # 91
The LED uses renewable energy of mud to run.

Renewable energy gadget # 92
The ikea renewable energy lights works with solar cells and panels to glow.

Renewable energy gadget # 93
The washing machine uses renewable energy of cranking to wash.

Renewable energy gadget # 94
The light is renewable energy concept uses shower water.to function.

Renewable energy gadget # 95
The scooty is form of renewable energy uses man power to run.

Renewable energy gadget # 96
Printer is renewable energy designed works using old coffee grounds.

Renewable energy gadget # 97
The renewable renewable energy clock uses water to show time.

Renewable energy gadget # 98
The eco heater is renewable energy concept which uses bio-ethanol fuel to fire.

Renewable energy gadget # 99
The renewable energy powered brick uses sun light to light up ur home at night.

ECO ENGINE

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ECO ENGINE

ECO ENGINE in an Artists Preseption.

Human Footprints

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HAPPY EARTH DAY 2009

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EARTH DAY 2009!

Empire State Building Going Green

2009-04-21T17:22:00.009+06:00

Empire State Building, once the world’s tallest building, is now set for a $100 million ‘green renovation.’ Empire State Building the iconic symbol of NY, just underwent an eight month modeling and analysis program and will receive a massive Green overhaul.
The 102-story Empire State building was built during the Great Depression; now, during the current economic ’stumbles,’ Empire State building is poised to lead the way into a more efficient future. “We have a very deep commitment to sustainability,” Tony Malkin of the Empire State Building Company says. “Without applying sustainable practices in all aspects of our businesses and lives, we will greatly harm our future.”

Empire State building management has also decided not to apply for LEED certification, opting instead to making the building as efficient and healthy as possible without such guidelines. The partners involved in Empire State building goin green project are fully aware that this project will be serving as a template for the massive efficiency upgrades in store for many of the nation’s buildings in the not so distant future. Seventy-five percent of the 4.5 million buildings in the United States are more than 20 years old and need energy retrofits. While a 38% predicted reduction in energy use is an incredibly ambitious undertaking. Empire State Building’s renovation agenda include a total overhaul of the HVAC system, improvements to the Empire State building's envelope, triple-glazed windows, electronic readouts to make users aware of their personal energy consumption, maximized day lighting, tenant demand ventilation control, and occupant sensor controls.
This retrofit of Empire State building is just what New York needed. It does the job and does it well. If the parties involved in Empire State building goin green project are able to achieve the savings they anticipate, there will be no excuse not to look to the Empire State Building as the symbol of progress and American ingenuity that it was when it was built.

SUSTAINABLE STYLE

2009-04-19T19:39:00.007+06:00

Sustainable Style for Spring 2009 has been introduced by Loyale on inhabitat.com. Sustainable Style for spring this year show cased dresses made out of organic cotton and reclaimed fabric. In her Sustainable Style posting on inhabitat.com Olivia Chen also reported that Jenny Hwa, founder of Loyale, is a recipient of the 2008 Eileen Fisher Business Grant Program. With a commitment to environmentally responsible business practices and continued use of sustainable fabrics. Jenny’s Sustainable Style spring collection showcases flirty mini-dresses and breezy tunics, that are easy-to-wear and comfortable pieces fit for all occasions. Loyale will be offering items of this Sustainable Style collection at 25% off for one day only with coupon code, apr22loyale, on this earth day. Shop sustainably!