Like the rest of the world, Australia has also started showing impacts of climate change and global warming. Drought, dust storms, rise in heat waves and intense wildfires are some of the hazardous consequences faced by the country in the Southern…
Researchers worldwide are trying their level best to cater to the energy needs of a progressive world. And beyond a doubt, it’s through the renewable technologies and ensuing improvements they can think of meeting them. Denmark’s Risø National…
After putting green living practices on a vertical pedestal with the Asakusa Tree Home, the Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects now proposes to do the same with a Community Park in Chicago. The proposed redesign dubbed Urban-Open will include the…
The Auberge Le Vieux Presbytère, a guesthouse in Bouctouche has been gifted with a green installation to please the eco-conscious visitors and the environment. The owners if the inn Richard Drennan and Ann Vickers have recently installed an…
Gadget makers have begun sharing their plans of unveiling some environmentally friendly electronics as we near the CES 2010. SilverPac, the maker of digital picture frames and other media electronics, will introduce its high-tech thermostat called…
What Miguel Rivera did with some redundant hard drives has found similar reverberations as American sculptor Brian Marshall comes up with his robotic creatures. Made from discarded industrial scrap metal and similar kitchen items, these robots…
Where rigidity mars the overall design of a living place, it’s its flexible nature that makes the same space adapt to various uses. Hoping to realize the same, Tony Owen Architects endeavors to introduce “micro design” in construction of the…
Wisconsin-based industrial designer Ben McGinley has come up with a unique air filter that uses sunlight to purge the air of its impurities. Dubbed as Aura Organic Air Filtration, the system utilizes plants that purify air of toxins like volatile…
WWF Scotland has lately released its annual list of the ten most threatened species around the world. The list of “10 to Watch in 2010” includes species such as tigers, polar bears, pandas, rhinos and mountain gorillas.
Google isn’t new to the green business, and this time also it has done the same in introducing new software that lets you know how furiously alarming the level of deforestation worldwide is. Not only does this software inform you on the same, it…