Source: aljazeera.com Published: February 5, 2013 We follow one woman who is on a mission to build homes for the poor from the only resource she can find in abundance. Ingrid Vaca Diez is on a mission to build better homes for the poor. With few funds and little...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: February 19, 2013 by Lori Zimmer A group of designers in Nairobi, Kenya have created a way to charge your cell phone with green energy while recycling a plastic bottle! The Bottle Charger transforms any used plastic soda or water...
Source: mnn.com Published: February 19, 2013 Shea Gunther Social entrepreneur Juan Fermín Rodriguez needs your help to bring his innovative solar technology and business model to poor rural Guatemalan families. Photo: Quetsol I am a fan of environmental initiatives...
Source: earthtechling.com Published: February 13, 2013 By Beth Buczynski I love eating bacon, but hate making it. Not only does that smell seem to permeate every inch of the house for hours after, but there’s always the question of what to do with the leftover grease....
Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 31, 2013 by Inhabitat Staff VNIT Recycled Paper Bricks While recycling trash is preferable to simply chucking refuse into the dump, the process still creates tons of byproducts that end up making their way to the landfill....
Source: ippinka.com Published: November 4, 2012 by Jerry Chang 600 littered plastic bottles were used by Tom Davies, a New Zealand native living in Fiji, to create this boat. It measures 4.5 metres long and 1.4 metres wide. All the 600ml bottles used are glued...
School Of Fish (awareness about plastics in our Oceans) Our waterways are becoming increasingly polluted and much of that pollution comes from plastic products that degrade dangerously and kill fish. By reducing and changing the materials we work with each day, we can...
Source: earthtechling.com Published: January 9, 2013 By Randy Woods Another day, another shipping container reuse, right? That’s how it seems sometimes with a lot of architecture firms that want to play with these modular boxes like they were pieces of Lego. While...
