Welcome to my personal lawn rightly inside my apartment! Never doubt your own eyes, and I’m not kidding, my lawn is really inside the room rather than outside of it. Why? You need to ask Haiko Cornelissen Architecten, who created the sod-covered aluminum table to bring the outdoorsy experience into city apartments.
Though claimed “zero waste” or “no waste”, these earthCell batteries actually are not something decomposing completely in the earth and leaving no footprint to the environment. Instead, they’re introducing to us a new way of selling and using batteries: since the used earthCell batteries can be returned to the company where they may get re-used again, the company and consumers would cooperate to reduce the amount of throw-away batteries, and thus to ensure the environmental friendliness. On the other hand, the earthCell features a good performance of rechargeable, as each pre-charged LSD-NiMH battery can last 30-50% longer than alkalines, even in high-power devices.
Green Mailbox is a wall-mounted mailbox that features a special roof to collect water and irrigate plants automatically. It is a really simple idea but indeed fantastic for those who cares about the environment.
Nature is where we get most things used in daily life, and thus they’re expected to go back to the nature world once they’re not in use. The “To Be Nature Wood Chopstick” is just a good example that turns the waste into valuable things again. When you’re done with the chopsticks, stick its starch end into the ground, and a seed will come out to grow into a green plant gradually. Don’t believe that? Wait for the concept to turn into real product and you can then try it.
It is reported that every year about 1.3 billion trees worldwide are used to make various types of paper products and nearly every minute a forest that has the size of a football field is destroyed. So what should we do to protect the trees? Recently a designer Sangbyum Kim has created these Melt Tags to take the place of common paper tags on clothes. It will disappear in water, and more importantly the tag can clean your new clothes too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The U.S. military recently developed a new Solar-powered Tent that uses a-Si thin film solar cells instead of conventional solar panels to produce electricity energy. Its hourly power generation ranges from 800watt to 3000watt, and the larger the tent is, the more energy it offers. [Read the rest of this entry...]
With such interesting leaf shirts on, can we humans become Adam and Eve again and then live in a new Garden of Eden? But that’s just what I thought as I saw these shirts. And designer Dave Rittinger actually aimed to embrace ecological consciousness with these “zero footprint shirts”. So do you have in mind? Share them with us. [Read the rest of this entry...]
We’ll never suggest you go to a restaurant that is constructed from bamboo for dinner, because no buildings would be much solider and safer than one that is made from concrete. But the Indonesian Bamboo Restaurant is so extraordinary that we would really like you to have a try. Designed by DSA+s, the restaurant is mainly made from bamboo and coupled together with ijuk, which is a rope made from sugar palm fiber. Concrete is also used for the stair, patio, and house base. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Have you ever realized how much biomass energy you’re wasting when throwing rubbish away? Let the trash bag designed by Ahhaproject tell you something: a full bag of rubbish is sufficient enough to boil 100 cups of tea, recharge cellphones 300 times or drive your car 16 miles. You see, even the trash can still do so many things, isn’t that amazing? Something more amazing is that these new trash bags can not only visualize the amount of energy contained, but leave no prints to the environment as they’re completely biodegradable PLA material. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The refreshing green color of the new tea bag always makes us think of one same word: healthy. And it is indeed something that can lead you a more healthy way of enjoying tea. Made from natural green tea leaves, these new packaging bags will change color to indicate how to correctly make a cup of tea. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Will human’s living environment get improved in the future if we build more and more gardens on the buses?! Designed by Marco Castro Cosio, these roof gardens are expected to absorb exhaust gas as the buses move around the city. Whatever the results may follow, we still think that’s a good try and welcome more and more cities adopting such Green Roofed Buses. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Guess what, the cool jacket is made from vegetable leather that is grown from a vat of green tea! That’s really incredible, but that’s just what the fashion designer Suzanna Lee has created in the “BioCouture” research project based at Central Saint Martin’s College.
Continue reading for a further explanation offered by Suzanna after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Taking the zero-emission vehicles to a new level, more and more automakers are developing vehicles that are powered by pedals, and one of the latest designs is the Human Powered Vehicle by Todd Dawson. It’s a double-duty vehicle, functioning as both a community car and a tradesman’s vehicle, and you can easily shift the vehicle between those two forms by moving and folding the seats in the back. The transformable seats also enable the vehicle to be used in different variants, ranging from a four person vehicle to a single person vehicle. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Who can tell me why the light concept is named as “SolarLight” but actually designed to harvest wind energy for power with its acrylic blades? But whatever, the “SolarLight” seems like a perfect alternative for the rural parts of the world, where large amounts of wind are available. [Read the rest of this entry...]
We need lamps everywhere, in the rooms, in the cars, in dark streets…Point is that too much fuel has been consumed to power the lamps, and we do need to find some alternatives for coal and electricity. According to a scientific breakthrough made by scientists from Yansei and Stanford university earlier this year, algae can produce electrical current during photosynthesis. So Mike Thompson created a hanging lamp that uses living algae as its power source. [Read the rest of this entry...]
