Barcelona-based Transfodesign would like to encourage more designers to think about the potential that exists in the things we throw away, and has put together its Trashkitchens competition together to see what kinds of kitchens design teams might create from trash.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation just released a full draft of a [...]
While our quest for the latest and greatest smartphone every year or so is not exactly green nor eco-friendly, there are a few apps you can install on your phone to help green up your life a little bit. I have had an iPhone since they came out (and am still using an older 3GS [...]
The idea of building a green house is no longer just for the pure environmentalists or the wealthy amongst us. Everyone wants a green home now, including me! Designing and creating a home with green building materials in order to make it eco-friendly benefits the builders, the residents, the neighbors, and the earth alike. Green [...]
What is “nonpoint source pollution?” How much of a problem is it and how can it be controlled?
Unlike pollution that comes from specific industrial factories, sewage treatment plants and other easily discernible ‘points’, nonpoint source pollution comes from many diffuse sources, but in the aggregate creates a formidable challenge for municipal, state and federal environmental [...]
The latest version of the Smart Fortwo is the Smart Forvision, a new all-electric concept that Daimler will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this month.
Nestlé’s chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe offers a lengthy disquisition on the “problems” associated with organic foods and covers all the classic anti-organic arguments, from “organic can’t feed [...]
Vertical-axis wind turbines, or VAWTs as they are often referred to as, are wind turbines that have their rotor shaft arranged vertically instead of horizontally. Instead of being mounted horizontally atop a large base like horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs), VAWTs are mounted vertically — the blades of the turbine stand tall straight up and down. [...]
