Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 12, 2014 Nottingham Trent University student Mark Colliass has taken multi-tasking transport to a whole new level with a new lampshade-producing bicycle. For those who would like to bike their way to design, one simple...
Source: mnn.com Published: May 10, 2012 Feeders work, but creating a native plant habitat is more effective. Contrary to popular opinion, flowers don’t have to be red to attract hummingbirds. (Photo: Charles Brutlag/Shutterstock) Gardeners, it seems, are...
Source: presentarchitecture.com Published: March 6, 2014 New York City produces over 14 Million tons of trash every year with most of it trucked long-haul to out-of-state landfills. In a typical year, it spends more than $300 million dollars on trash transport while...
Source: gizmag.com Published: February 25, 2014 The PPlanter in use, by a person and a bamboo plant If you live in a big city, then there are doubtless alleyways or alcoves you know of that always smell like pee. While it might help to install public urinals in these...
Source: treehugger.com Published: February 27, 2014 Zachary Shahan zshahan3 Screen capture ipv Delft Lloyd has written about potential bike highways in the London sky a couple of times, but did you know the Netherlands already has a bicycle roundabout in the sky? The...
Source: earth911.com Published: February 27, 2014 By Kathryn Sukalich Researchers at the University of Leicester in the U.K. have developed a type of pressed wood that could lead to more recycling. Photo: Flickr/John Loo If you’ve ever purchased cheap furniture or...
Source: ecogeek.org Published: February 27, 2014 Ma Yanjun, a farmer in China’s Shaanxi province, reportedly built a DIY solar water heater out of 66 beer bottles, water flowing through the bottles is heated by the sun and then routed into the bathroom for showers....
Source: inhabitat.com Published: February 26, 2014 Andrea is a revolutionary new air purifier engineered to significantly improve the air filtration capacity of natural plants. This living filter accelerates the removal of harmful VOC’s and toxins through the active...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: February 19, 2014 Philips’ just unveiled a new concept for an urban beehive that would allow anyone to become an amateur bee keeper – even those who live in apartments with no backyards. The pod-like hive attaches to a hole cut into a...
Source: wired.co.uk Published: October 29, 2013 Credit: luladot.com By Tom Cheshire Lucy Norman knows how much we need natural sunlight, so she set out to get more of it into our lives. “I did a lot of research into optical physics, hanging out at Imperial College...
