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Sculptor Kris Kuksi’s excellence makes itself evident with these sculptures. Amazing as they look, they are in fact upcycled examples of old, discarded toys. The sculptor uses discarded toys to create these haunting sculptures that carry a medieval-ancient look.
Old toys do make a ...
Green Living
The Solar Shelf Concept was a design entry to the Green Life Competition, and has come up as one of the top three designs submitted to the contest. A basic requirement of the competition was that the design entered should be environment and design centric, and that the entry should not be ...
Building/Design
The Wind Lamp is a concept that could help the environment and natural resources in a number of ways. This green lamp is designed to serve as a street lamp, and it could come in very handy at places with sufficient wind power. The lamp basically consists of LEDs and a wind power generator.
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Building/Design
Energy Efficiency
Considering the sheer volume of bottles Coke sells every year, the company’s announcement to move from PET bottles to a blend of plastic and 30% plant-based materials, is more than welcome. The new sugarcane and molasses based bottles will have 25% less emissions when compared to ...
Green Living
Coca-Cola
Recycling
German manufacturer Sulfurcell has cladding modules with integrated solar cells. These modules consist of a hardened, frameless glass followed by an Indium based semiconductor layer connected to a solar module. Sulfurcell claims that the use of Indium allows the semiconductor layer to be 100 ...
Energy/Transportation
Early morning of November 17 will have a wonderful display in the sky, with a strong showing of the Leonid Meteor Shower. This year’s meteor shower will look all the more better because of no interference from the moon, as November 16 is the new moon, so the skies will be dark and even ...
Green Living
Planet
The Hakka Houses, were created by the Hakka people in China, mainly during the 17th century. These houses are mostly circular, and sometimes square in shape and they functioned as self-sustaining micro-communities. Built as a way to defend their local resources, these houses in the modern ...
Other
China
South Park is best known for its dark, politically incorrect humor, but Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park seem to environmentally correct, at least for some part of it. The duo recently gave the world a peek at their Colorado Gateway retreat. The retreat is built in an ...
Green Living
Colorado
Gateway
Zero Motorcycles has received a lot of acclaim for its electric motorcycles, which have been greatly appreciated and admired. Testament to their success is the “Best Electric Motorcycle” award at eCarTec in Munich, Germany, and the appreciation Governor Schwarzenegger put forward ...
Other
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Germany
California
Precious little is known about the giant manta ray fish, and Biologist Andrea Marshall got to know them slightly better thanks to a first hand experience with the fish. She calls them “the most beautiful underwater birds” and simply looking at the images, we can clearly ...
Other
General Motors apparently has plans to put the Cadillac Converj into production. The Converj was displayed as a concept at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, and the upcoming extended range electric vehicle will be built on the same technology as the General’s much anticipated Chevrolet Volt. ...
Energy/Transportation
Cadillac
Volt
General Motors
Chevy
Opel
The Idea House is a modular design created by Broadway Malyan. The design of the house is intended for use by one of Malaysia’s largest property developers, Sime Darby Property. Idea House aims to be the first carbon zero building in South East Asia and is well suited for the tropical ...
Building/Design
The Indian meteorological department has said that the Cyclone named Phyan was about 250 km west of Goa at 2.30 a.m. Thursday morning, it is been issued an “orange” alert. That is one step below the red alert given for a severe cyclone. Reportedly the Cyclone will hit Mumbai ...
Environment
India
Climate Change
Elizabeth Hurley, it appears, has moved to the countryside, and she’s cooking up new recipes there. The famed personality has caught hold of 400 acres of that’s working and even has sheep and cattle. While the glamorous farm girl is away from London, she’s been creating a ...
Energy/Transportation
Low Carbon Energy
Merrill Lynch has just said what has been the writing on the wall for some time now. A research carried out by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch says merely having a “green” tag isn’t going to sell many EVs/ PHEVs unless they get better looks. So while electric cars like ...
Energy/Transportation
Tesla
Roadster
Fisker
Karma
Architect Jacob Tigges has proposed a rather strange plan for the city of Berlin, an artificial mountain. This artificial mountain will be called “The Berg” and the plan is to create the 1000 meter high mountain at the sight of Berlin’s former Tempelhof airport.
If ...
Building/Design
The initial frenzy kicked up by some media outlets over the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) has subsided to some extent, but of course there is a (slight) threat and beating it could have you walking down over a delicious road that you would lovingly embrace. You could simply get the vaccination ...
Other
Indoor lighting accounts for nearly 15% of energy use in most of the households, and while new technologies are working to drastically reduce this energy consumption, things like Sparks LEDs could prove very useful. This design from Daniel Becker uses energy efficient LED light bulbs, which ...
Building/Design
Nuclear power plants in Germany are on their way to an extended life, surmounting the huge obstacles in their path. There is a vehement opposition to nuclear power plants in Germany, and most of the population believes that the country should let go of nuclear power plants. The new policy ...
Energy/Transportation
Germany
Wind Power
Hurricane season lasts until November 3oth.
Tropical Ida is trying to get in on top of the radar, as opposed to under the radar before the season winds down. It’s near Nicaragua now.
Ida is the 9th storm of the season, down a bit and sending the global warming/climate change alarmists ...
