While the earth is mostly composed of water, it is nice to see that housing designs that make use of our water environment are now growing in numbers. Recently, a contest called The Self-sufficient City: Envisioning the habitat of the future has an entry that aims to provide sustainable lodging to the 1600 inhabitants of …
GE Wattstation Charge Point: Charges Your Electric Cars
Electric cars are growing in numbers to help reduce carbon emission and eventually combat global warming. With the continuous growth of these types of vehicles, GE in collaboration with Yves Behar recently unveils the GE Wattstation Charge Point, a charging station for Electric Cars. The station itself is an eco-friendly one as it uses LED …
Shop And Save With The Eco-Bag
Shopping is definitely one of the most fun and addictive thing to do which resulted into the vast growth of plastic shopping bags thrown in our landfills. Living green is hard for some, but if you were to think about it for the second time, it is indeed and easy thing to do if you …
T-System: A Street LED Lighting System
Street lighting is definitely one of the huge energy consumers in every town. Government however, cannot just allow a street to be less illuminated for it will be a treat on its residents’ safety. I think, this issue is already resolved in Calcinate, Bergamo through their wonderful project called the T-system. This one of a …
The Accumuwater Water Tower: Collects Rainwater To Water Your Plants
If like any other, you want your garden to be lush green, then constant watering is needed. Thus, you need to have constant supply of water for you gardening purposes alone. However, designer Ilshat Garipov designed the Accumuwater – Water Tower and it will surely allow us to have a lush green as long as …
Radiator Rack – A Research Base Project Base On The Book: “Thoughtless Acts” By Jane Fulton Suri And IDEO
Eco-friendly designers never ran out of ideas just to keep our environment safe and a better place to live. Designer Keith Xianrong Zheng joined with all the other designers and created the Radiator shock that work as your clothes storage and dryer at the same time. The everyday environment often show evidence of people’s creativity …
Instant Cartridge Printer: An Eco-friendly Printing Device
Printing our photos has now really becoming easier each day. I can imagine how we wait for days in the past just to have a glimpse of our precious memories. However, today, you can already view your pictures taken in an instant with the help of the Instant Cartridge Printer by Yuexun Chen. The products …
Agua in Situ: A Clever Sustainable Graduation Design
Industrial design graduating student Eduardo Otero Rodriguez shows his love to the environment as he designed the Agua in Situs, a rainwater collection tool as part of his graduation project. The design is ideal for installation in places with tropical environment for a guaranteed source. As the Agua in Situ collects enough rainwater, it already …
VELUX: Will Illuminate Your Place Naturally In Style
Do you think it is possible to illuminate your room elegantly in a natural way? With the constant call for battling global warming and with the artistic mind every designer has today, the answer for that question is now a Yes. One great example is the VELUX, an elegant lighting designed that will illuminate your …
Solar Powered Mobile Light: Stylish Lighting By Koichi Okamoto
It is so nice to see numerous designs that take advantage of sustainable energy sources like the sun. If I have the knowledge of designing items, I would definitely do the same, not only save some amount of money from my electricity bill that continues to skyrocket each month, but to help save the environment …
