A team of researchers from the University of Greenwich's School of Architecture & Construction, are working on the development of a new kind of facing for buildings, that could gather water and even generate energy.Professor Neil Spiller, an architect and head of the University of Greenwich's School of Arch... |
13 January 2011
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New eco-friendly 32 gallons garbage cans are made out of recycled chip bags and scraps of rubber elastic trimming leftovers, from the disposable diapers' production. The promoters of this kind of recycling are the same that made MP3s out of Cheetos bags, a New Jersey-based recycling company named TerraCycle. T... |
23 August 2010
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Back in 1998, there was a contest called EDITT (Ecological Design in the tropics) which would sponsor ecologically-oriented building projects. The winner was Dr. Ken Yeang from T.R. Hamzah & Yeang International, an ecological architecture company, whose project focused on the building of a large ecological skyscraper... |
16 October 2008
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France President Nicolas Sarkozy and the French government are determined to see the individual transportation system go green, as they invested 400 million Euros ($549 million) in this regard. This will allow for more than a decent start for car-making companies like Renault and Peugeot-Citroen.Following the announc... |
10 October 2008
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Western Digital has announced a new line of hard disks that practically spare up to 40 percent of power, as compared to the competition's products. The GreenPower compliant class of SATA drives (RE2-GP) feature capacities ranging from 500GB up to 1TB and use around 5 watts less at no performance loss. This perfo... |
22 November 2007
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Someone told me how he used to cruise along the beach in its Golf cart. Since then, I keep dreaming about it. But this... this is definitely going on my birthday list. As it's more than I expected.Playing golf is a rich-men thing but also quite a tiresome activity, since you have to walk through all the 18 holes... |
4 July 2007
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