As part of its launch of the 2010 Prius, Toyota has installed a giant solar flower that power-up Boston’s Prudential Plaza. The flower caters ten individuals who want to have a free Wi-Fi access and those who want to charge-up their laptops or other small electronic devices. Each of the five flowers are 18 inches …
Category: Outdoors
The Eco-Parasol From Gert Eussen
We have here a nice submission from the Netherland-based designer Gert Eussen. After the nice Coco Hut was featured here in Igreenspot, here comes another worth featuring creation from the eco-designer, and it is called as the Eco-Parasol. “Recently it’s been very hot in Holland, and as you might know, we have an extreme shortage …
Solar Powered Houseboat By Orhan Cileli
With the limitation of the current houseboat design to be on the open ocean, industrial designer Orhan Cileli has come up with an eco-friendly houseboat design that can survive not only on calm waterways, rivers, inlets, and bays, but to the open ocean as well. This houseboat has enough underlying support that will prevent the …
Swimming Green With The Guerilla Dumpster Pool
Summer is already here especially to the people of the United States, which resulted into numerous summer fun activities like swimming by the beach, or at large pools. A new way of spending your summer the green way is now being introduced by Macro Sea who founded the Guerilla Pools that is made from old …
Solar Shower In An Easy Pop-up Shelter
This summer, enjoying the hot summer’s sun by going the world’s best beaches is the best option to do. Enjoying it in a green way is now easier with the Solar Shower in an easy pop-up shelter. This can be your privacy shelter, personal cabin, and bathroom in front of hundreds of beachgoers, wherein you …
Zero CO2: The First Hydrogen Powered Yacht
Set to sail on March of 2010, Zero CO2 is the first eco-yacht in the world that is being powered by hydrogen fuel cells. This eco-yacht will also generate its fuel through its on-board renewable energy generating systems like the solar and wind harnessing systems. Through these systems, the yacht is able to generate hydrogen …
Solar Tents: The Eco Friendly And High Tech Camping Material
Camping and mountaineering is an activity that brings you close to nature. Currently, doing this nature friendly activity becomes more eco friendly if you are to use the Orange Solar Tent. This solar powered camping gear has the ability to communicate with your fellow campers. By simply sending a text message to your tent through …
Well-designed Rainwater Collection System By Kyle Nesbitt
Wanting to save daily water usage, my household around the globe are installing a homemade rainwater collecting system. They might have solved the issue of saving water usage but another issue pops up. It was the awkward appearance of those rain barrels. The lack of pressure is another issue requiring each household to keep the …
The Nova Vertical Wind Turbine: Efficient Source Of Energy
To address the current environmental problem that we are facing currently, more and more designers and engineers are always in action of searching and alternative source of energy. Joining with those successful and hopeful green innovators, is the chief executive officer of ETI (Energy Technologies Institute) Dr. David Clarke with the help of three universities …
The High Line By James Corner Field Operations
Rehabilitating an abandoned structure is really rewarding to the people around it and to the environment as well. James Corner Field Operations has managed to rehabilitate an abandoned elevated railway and resulted it into a beautiful 1.5-mile long park in New York. The said remodeled freight railway houses beautiful plants, benches and more that surely …