Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Who Wooden Want This Eco Phone!
I have always had a special liking for modern furniture and accessories and mainly because they reduce the clutter in one’s house and give you enough breathing space and yet adding its signature style and elegance to the decor.Perhaps that is why I was delighted to see the new PAPPA Eco Phone launched by HULGER recently and they say it is world’s first wooden VOIP Eco phone and is priced at a neat 300 dollars. Crafted by hand from a single piece of American walnut and Eco the phone is a beauty that is an aspect further accentuated by solid brass from ‘I like its design’ studio in Montreal.
The eco-friendly look is supported by an updated technology. Yes PAPPA Eco Phone is USB based and can work with Mac and PC computers. One can also find the plug-and-play feature in it that can be which makes it compatible with services like Skype, ICHAT and Yahoo.Via
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I always wanted my bedroom (which happens to be my favorite place) to look like the one I saw in the fairytales. I always wondered if I would ever find a bed like the one on which Sleeping Beauty slumbered for years. Well, I’m happy I finally found one. Float, a cute green bed crafted from the sustainable, water-resistant TOTARA wood with base and canopy enclosed in acrylic fabric finished in Teflon fascinated me.
This Eco-friendly bed designed by a sailor-designer David TRUBRIDGE for a New Zealand based company OKOOKO, was voted ‘The Best Piece of Bedroom Furniture’ and costs $25,000. This gorgeous cradle brings forth a stunning fusion of style and comfort reflecting the sailor’s experiences on his voyages through the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Optimum utilization of resources like never before!!! With Gianluca Solid’s Ovetto ECO green in you wouldn’t have to hide your trash bin in the corners but can flaunt it upfront. In an attempt to go green, the Ovetto ECO green is made out of recycled polypropylene and meets the needs of domestic waste separation. This helps educate the population to correctly dispose of waste in order to be able to consequently recycle it.
One of San Francisco’s most exciting green projects, the construction of the new California Academy of Sciences building, has finally come alive. Designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano in collaboration with engineer Rana Creek and the Eco building is topped by an undulating and functional and HUGE living green roof of 2.5 acre. Not only does this roof provide all the sustainable benefits that living roofs bring to a Eco structure, but it is also visible from within the exhibition spaces are connecting inside and out and engaging the context of San Francisco’s flora-filled backdrop.
All set to open to the visitors from 27th September in this new Academy Eco Building houses an aquarium, planetarium, and exhibition spaces. Aside from its green roof and the Eco building is a feat of institutional green building that can be using some of the most cutting-edge energy efficiency strategies, delighting and water reclamation.
The architectural Eco design of the new Academy responds to the Academy’s mission, history and setting. Inspired by the natural world are nature becomes part of the building itself. Its taken ten years and great vision to unify the Academy twelve Eco buildings into one notable structure are standing in the middle of the city Golden Gate Park.
With 60,000 photo-voltaic cells covering a glass canopy that frames it, the 410,000 sq ft compound involved a cost of US$500 million. See it ones and you would acknowledge and that it’s WORTH IT!!
A beer that’s green!!! Sounds absurd? Well don’t be too surprised. After organic and biodynamic wine it is green beer that is making news these days.
With the benefits of Windmills come common concerns like the whooshing sound that regular turbines produce, as well as their divisive visual aesthetics. Keeping in mind the volatility of the speed of wind in the urban environment, the QR (Quiet Revolution) has been designed. A new type of wind turbine intended to address both of these issues, Quiet Revolution’s QR5 Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, or VAWT for shawt, is smaller, quieter, and way better looking than your typical windmill, plus it should produce the equivalent of its £25,000 price tag in clean energy within 15 years or less. The elegant helical (twisted) design of QR ensures a robust performance even in turbulent winds. It is also responsible for virtually eliminating noise and vibration.
At five meters high and three meters in diameter, it is compact and easy to integrate, and with just one moving part, maintenance can be limited to an annual inspection.
This could be a breakthrough in technology and researchers in the US of A have come up with a method that will give flexibility and transparency to efficient silicon-based solar cells. So much so that they can actually be wrapped around a pencil as well as used to tint windows on buildings and cars. The technique involves processing silicon by slicing its brittle wafers into ultra thin layers and then transferring them onto a flexible surface. We have seen how the popularity of solar cells has increased many folds with the energy crisis cornering America. More and more people are willing to utilize the sun’s energy over oil.
Believe it or not but even music can be Eco-friendly. I am not just talking about the green lyrics but the production bit as well. Caribbean musician Turtuga Blanku creates music that is powered by the sun.
The big news is – Google decides to go green. In an attempt to rescue the USA from the energy crisis before 2030, the largest search engine in the world has decided to pursue a new energy plan. Experts believe that the company is being a little too modest calling their effort as too small, when now they are supporting and 's green technology like wind power, solar energy, geothermal energy etc like never before.
Green activists have taken up cudgels against Starbucks now. The coffee-giant that boasted of Eco-friendly credentials came under the scanner when investigations by Sun revealed that everyday 23.4m liters of water goes down the drains of 10,000 outlets worldwide due to a company policy that tells the employees to keep the tap running non-stop. Facts show that this much water is enough for the 2 million population of the drough-ridden Namibia to survive for a day.
PETA’s demand for replacing cow milk by human breast milk just went a step further. The animal loving organization sent a letter to the management of famous ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s urging them to do a big favor to cows and customers by switching to breast milk.
Come October and Wal-Mart Stores Inc will be going the eco-friendly way. Yes, the largest retailer in the world has decided to reduce plastic bag wastage in its stores by 25 per cent in the US and 50 per cent in other countries. Keeping in tune with the new green promise, the store will be selling a new 50-cent reusable bag in the U.S. Also, its baggers will be trained to pack bags more efficiently, and I know this is a best eco friendly product because plastic bag is providing prolusion.
You can turn pee into water with a special kind of machine. As insane as it sounds, the trick has been performed by inventor Dean Kamen. Already a big name in the world of water filtration, Kamen has again gathered a lot of attention thanks to the Slingshot machine he has created.
The cute toy-like Eco-friendly cars have been made a reality by Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), which is a DaimlerChrysler company. Almost 10 years ago, they came up with a 48-volt GEM vehicle that could easily accommodate two passengers and give a top speed of 20 mph. Call it a coincidence, but the same year the National Highway Traffic Safety Regulation acknowledged a new class of vehicle, the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) low-speed vehicle. So these adorable toy-like cars actually found their way to the public roads.
Though this is a step ahead towards optimum utilization of natural resources, it has its respective loop-holes. Automatic switching may lead in wastage of accumulated energy when not required. Besides this, it also requires a battery to store solar energy to reserve all the power for illuminating the nights followed by cloudy days. Also such a solar guzzling shade can be utilized to power up few household gadgets. Like a flower opens to the sun, this device opens at daylight and closes at dusk. This is eco product and showing best unique conceptual high advance future and this eco product is more expensive and generally utilize on home decoration, but that is representing more advance future for another related product, I like this looking good product.
We keep hearing about Eco-friendly vehicles dominating the roads across the world. But Mochi Craft has thought about the remaining 71%, which is water. A branch of Ferrety Group, this organization sailed in world’s first Eco-vessel.
A hybrid yatch and this was launch at 48th Salone Nautico Internazaionale and this green tag come from hybrid force scheme that is wholly designed by Ferrety. And I think I want to say this is a twin MAN diesel inboards are friendly to a 15-inch, touch screen monitoring system; thus allowing the helmsman to be able to switch among three different propulsion modes with the swipe of a finger: diesel, diesel-electric, or just electric.
An amazing start indeed, because once such eco-friendly hybrid yatch sail across the blue water the ever-increasing pollution level will come down. Plus with its diesel-engine combination, the 75-feet water bus leave’s ten kilograms of carbon dioxide for each nautical mile. There is also a battery pack that too can power the boat. And in this diesel-electric mode, the vessel emits less than half a kilogram each nautical mile. The RINA Green Star certifies that the Long Range 23, priced at a huge three million euros comes with both enhanced hydrodynamic capability and static stability, really very cool product.
For those of you dying of guilt each time you pop up your fave sushi, fear no more. Time has come to eat your fish a little more responsibly. Montery Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute along with Environmental Defense Fund have come up with a cool and helpful sushi card that you an carry in your wallet with your sustainable seafood card. This card will be available from 22nd October and will carry information on the shushi to be avoided.
Wondering where this stunning futuristic monument is situated? Well, this is just the design of one of the unalterable structures belonging to the triad of 1 Dubai, Park Gate and Park Avenue, of the Jumeira Gardens of Dubai. This picture shows the design of Park Gate, which encompasses three pairs of beautiful towers opposite each other connected by a covering of hanging gardens at the top which gives a cool atmosphere under it.
Designed by the Chicago-based architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill this sustainable green project is worth $95 billion. This project has been designed to accommodate offices, homes, business establishments, amusement parks any many more. These green buildings are environment conservative in more than one ways. 1 Park Avenue, an 1800 foot tower with its solar panels and wind turbines waiting to utilize the renewable power of the natural resources.� 1 Dubai stands as the third structure tower in UAE, with its 3 soaring towers measuring 3281 feet in height, connected by glass suspension sky bridges.
The fundamental concept behind this design ‘bubbletecture’ is very eco friendly concept of ‘circulation.’ And consign is found in Hyogo and Japan and the unique architectural part is a showcase of the melding of function and maximum utilize of accessible topography. The uneven land terrain was not altered. The limited flat land was utilized. The design keeps natural landform intact. The mission was not to let construction alter the natural environment. All this is the triumph of the Shuhei Endo Architect Institute that was established in 1988.
Certified in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is the very first ‘green’ museum to be found in New York. It focuses on environmental education and consciousness for children, as much as loads of fun for kids while they are in the process of discovery and thought. Here, kids learn about the environment in many innovative ways, and through interesting methods and strategies of presentation. Since many exhibitions are interactive, a trip to the museum is a guaranteed fun day for the whole family.
True to its mission of environmental consciousness and best practices, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is a ‘green’ structure in itself, quite expectedly. The museum is a bastion of conservation: efficient energy use is practiced in terms of efficient lighting and temperature-control. The museum is an innovation that follows the latest trend in ‘green’ buildings. It boasts of a good percentage of its needed electrical power converted from its solar cells. The heating and cooling levels inside the museum are regulated by sensors that ‘feel’ the volume of people inside. There are also separate sensors that detect the amount of artificial light that is just necessary. Even the ventilation system has its own sensors that detect the CO2 level and, consequently, dictate the amount of oxygen that needs to be replenished inside. All in all, the museum is a child-friendly environment.
Brooklyn Children's Museum sample activity the museum building is a showcase of sustainable construction, with its many components that come from recycled materials. In turn, these materials, such as bamboo, cork, rubber, and linoleum, are easily replaceable. Definitely, the museum is a showcase of what being Eco-friendly is all about and what better clients to have than the ones that will continue the future generations on the crucial idea of taking responsibility for environmental protection. 
The Pininfarina B0 (pronounced B Zero) is a tribute to the legacy of Andrea Pininfarina (1957-2008) who believed that ‘designing and building cars is not only a business choice but a social responsibility.’ The B0 is clearly the solution for a pollution-free world, as was envisioned by its creator. This electric car of sheer styling is a collaboration born out of the partnership between Bollore and Pininfarina. The four-seater, four-door hatchback with an automatic gearbox is being built in Turin and will be powered by Bollore’s LMP technology, using the LMP battery that is rechargeable over a few hours only through a standard domestic main socket.
The car is a mass production model. The initial units will roll off by the end of 2009. The fully-electric vehicle will not produce any CO2 emission because of its use of the LMP revolutionary battery technology. It is No exhaust gases or particulates from this car. For the past 15 years, Bollore has been developing a solid-state lithium polymer battery that does not need any maintenance and has a lifespan of approximately 200,000 km (125,000 miles).
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