filed in GREEN, PRODUCTS on Mar.26, 2010
N-Viro International Corporation is a company that offers green technologies. They have been conceptualizing, researching and producing technologies from transforming bio-solids and other organic waste products to be converted into beneficial agricultural products and alternative energy or fuel. They have patenting these technologies so they could give license municipalities and private companies for their own [...]
filed in DESIGN, GREEN on Mar.18, 2010
Lighting is among the most necessary features of any room. How a room is lit determines what the general feel of that room will be. Cozy and warm, clear and vibrant or darkish and intimate, light is commonly the most crucial factor. Probably the greatest ways to create an inviting area is to maximize the [...]
filed in DESIGN, GREEN, HEALTH on Oct.16, 2009
The folks at Volkswagen turn a set of stairs into a piano which turns out makes people walk up stairs instead of the taking the escalator. The commercial is titled where the world is your symphony, the stairs are your piano, and you’re the composer. Neat idea.
filed in DESIGN, GREEN on Aug.18, 2009
It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Six hundred mirrors reflecting sunlight onto a massive 40-story tall tower out in the Andalusian countryside. Yet as eerie as it looks, this is Europe’s first commercial solar power plant being operated by a company called Solucar. The structure generates 11 Megawatts of electricity-enough power for [...]
filed in DESIGN, GREEN on Dec.14, 2008
Rising above the skyline of Khanty Mansiysk in Siberia, this mixed use tower will be a new landmark, providing crucial amenities for the city, sheltered from the harsh local climate. The concept is driven by a progressive environmental strategy that is expected to establish new benchmarks for the region. Set high on a hill in [...]
filed in DESIGN, GREEN on Nov.12, 2008
I got this from treehugger. The Factor 10 House is so called because it reduces the environmental impact of the average American home by a factor of 10. In 2000, the City of Chicago Departments of Environment and Housing sponsored a national competition to identify creative modifications to their existing New Homes for Chicago program [...]
