The Guide To Efficient Living
This apartment high-rise concept won a sustainable housing award recently in China. It integrates a vertical greenhouse into the high-rise. Designed by Knafo Klimor Architects, the "agro-housing" concept allows the residents to produce their own … [Continue Reading]
Masanori Naruse jogs every day, collects miniature cars and feeds birds in his backyard, but he's proudest of the way his home and 2200 others in Japan get electricity and heat water - with power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell. The technology - … [Continue Reading]
Wow, this is a truly non-toxic paint, and it's going to be sold exclusively at Home Depot. It's called Freshaire Choice, and it's a zero VOC paint. According to the EPA, the air inside a home is, on average, two-to-five-times more polluted than the … [Continue Reading]
Sunscreens that pollute the water are not efficient. This is especially true in the ocean, where it's estimated that 4000-6000 tons of sunscreen wash off swimmers every year. A company called Caribbean Solutions is introducing a biodegradable … [Continue Reading]
Ken-ichi Horie, a 69 year old Japanese sailor, is planning a solo 4,350 mile trip from Hawaii to Japan using an innovative wave powered boat. If successful, the trip would earn him a Guinness record while simultaneously proving the viability of wave … [Continue Reading]
Steve Nash is the All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns has forged a partnership with Nike to create the Nike Trash Talk, a basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste. The "waste" comes Nike’s own production facilities—scraps that would … [Continue Reading]
I've been testing the Road Runner low-flow showerhead, which is rated at 1.59 gallons per minute. Currently, it's my favorite showerhead, beating out my previous favorites: the 2GPM Oxygenics showerhead, and the 1.75GPM Nigara Earth Massage … [Continue Reading]
This post has been updated for 2011. I recently wrote about Filtering Your Drinking Water Very Efficiently, but let us turn now to your shower water. When we shower, we absorb the substances dissolved in water through our skin quite readily. For … [Continue Reading]
Three huge wind turbines have been installed on the Galapagos Islands. They will generate a total of 2.4 megawatts for the 30,000 residents of the Galapagos archipelago’s five inhabited islands. The system will meet 60 to 80 percent of electrical … [Continue Reading]
They look like foil party balloons, but they are actually very efficient solar concentrators. These solar "balloons" were developed by a company called Cool Earth, based in California, and it has just received $21 million dollars in investor funding. … [Continue Reading]
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