Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
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Filed under: Bizarre, Environment
Weird Korowai Tribe and Their Magnificent Tree Houses
by Admin on Jul 11th, 2010
The Korowai tribe which counts about 3000 people is one of the weirdest tribes in the world. They live in southeastern Papua/New Guinea and their culture still remains isolated from the modern civilization. As most of tribes, they have many weird customs and some of them consider cannibalism, too. Like the fact that they are living in their own tribal way is not weird enough, they have something what makes them even more weird and unique. ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Green Oasis in the Desert of Cold Steel Constructions
by Admin on Apr 19th, 2010
We are witnessing the fact that our urban settlements are becoming cold and dark bunch of steel and concrete. That is against the humans nature and is against the nature at all. Humans naturally do not feel comfortable in such urban areas where you cannot see a single plant. Studuio Seilern Architects came to an interesting idea to create a building which will not bounce from the standards of urban life and still it will be eco-friendly an...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, Tech
Eco-friendly Body Board to Help You to Dive and Swim
by Admin on Apr 13th, 2010
Swimming and diving with the dolphin was always one of my dreams, but as most of you know, it is not so easy to find a real dolphin and it is less easier to catch it and hold it to swim and dive with. Now here is a pretty cool sea scooter which can replace the dolphins and it is not so hard to catch it at all :) Here you can see a photos of eco-friendly scooter which is designed by Design Icon. It is powered by an electric engine so it do...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, Science
The Car-Puccino, Coffee Powered Vehicle
by Admin on Mar 9th, 2010
At first view on this I was thinking how it is nice and eco-friendly to have such car that runs on coffee, then It reminded me that one cup of coffee cost as same as one liter of gasoline. Here you can see the car that runs on coffee and its name is Car-puccino. It is actually modified Volkswagen Scirocco from 1988. The constructor of this machine claims that the car will be driven from Manchester to London using the power of roasted coffe...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, Organic, green
Wooden Obsession: Complete House Interior Made From Wood
by Admin on Feb 28th, 2010
Wood is really nice material to build anything that is touchable and I have seen a lot of different wooden house interiors but this one is way more bizarre of all of them. Venetian sculptor Livio De Marchi wasn't satisfied only with regular furniture that can be made from wood, he decided to make almost everything in his house from wood and as you can see from following photos he done that pretty well. If you look in his wardrobe which...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Animal Sculptures Made of Hundreds of Plastic Pieces
by Admin on Feb 23rd, 2010
Sayaka Kajita Ganz is an artist that creates amazing unique sculptures made from a different plastic pieces like spoons, forks, toys and similar. She creates sculptures of different animals from a thousands of plastic pieces. The final result is amazing. She says that she creates those sculptures from a different discarded objects from peoples' houses. She claims that the fact that those objects were part of other peoples' lives before she t...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Inexpensive Home Built With Recycled Containers
by Admin on Feb 9th, 2010
Building a home that is inexpensive and unique in same time is real challenge today. A perfect example how home can be built with less money is this house which is designed by architects Claire Helene Drouin and Jean Marie Sanchez. The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has a very fashionable design. This home is built in Marseille, F...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Beautiful Home Built From Recycled Materials
by Admin on Jan 27th, 2010
Those people have decided to create something unique and something that you don't see everyday and yet it is cheap and it is built from a recycled materials. This house is one of the examples how home can be built without spending much money. This house has been built from a cheap recycled materials. But those people are not just savvy they are also pretty creative, you can see how some of the walls, doors and roof are mosaic-like decorat...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment
Why Should You Use Earth 4 Energy?
by Tony Jallit on Dec 11th, 2009
Nowadays we are feeling a rising awareness to the reality that our energy resources, as they have been in use the past few years, are most likely not going to last for to much longer and the energy markets are being broken in to increasingly fast alterations, some are due to governmental reasons and others because of the changing climate of the world. Fossil fuel is able to be exhausted and soon. Solar power on the other hand is sustainable, m...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment
What Can One Get From The Wind
by Pat Mettmer on Dec 10th, 2009
When you see windmills what comes to your mind? Do you think of the Dutch countryside scattered with these structures? Do you think of the windmill-fighting Don Quixote, the fictional Spanish nobleman? Whatever comes to your mind, one thing is true; wind solar power is now a reality in many places. After decades of neglect, windmills are being adapted and changed in design to allow them to produce the needed energy that is so vital for life in th...Read More » Tags
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