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 and will look like a green park.

Here you can see some of photos of conceptual design of the urban building which should contain a lot of plants in it. The project is named Whitehorse Street Development and it is planned to be built in London, United Kingdom.

When they finish it, it will look like a green oasis in the desert of cold steel constructions. This luxury housing complex is aimed to be finished before May 2012.

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 is, of course, made from wood, you’ll find there a beautiful suit made from wood. I doubt that wooden books are readable but Livio made a bunch of them. And at the end, there is a wooden oven and in front of his house is wooden car. It sounds like obsession to me. Author site .

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 took them gives her a special inspiration for creating such artworks. Author site .

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, France where you can find a plenty of shipping containers that are waiting to be recycled and used again. Maybe the coolest fact is that this home is pretty mobile and it could be eventually relocated to another place.

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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 decorated. And when you look it inside it looks really nice and makes you wonder who wouldn’t like to live there. Surely, a reasonable house siding is needed to complete the beautiful house.

Plastic is one of the few new chemical materials which create environmental problem. Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semi synthetic organic solid materials fitting for the manufacture of industrial products. These are typically polymers of high molecular weight, and may have other stuffs to advance performances and to decrease costs. Polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene are largely used in the manufacture of plastics.

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There are hundreds types of plastic products available in the market. Some of them are plastic bags, coatings, furniture, sheets, fittings, tanks, toys, buckets, sanitary ware, and stationary. These are some which we are using in our everyday life without caring how much dangerous it is.

Industrial revolution was the major cause of plastic spreading. It is one of the major toxic pollutants of our time. Being a non-biodegradable substance, composed of toxic chemicals, plastic pollutes earth, air and water. It produces severe harm to the milieu both during its production and disposal.

Some of the elements of plastic such as benzene and vinyl chloride cause cancer and the other elements are gases and liquid hydrocarbons that poison earth and air.

According to the recent researches the depletion of ozone has increased by about 50% in the 20th century. The uncontrolled deforestation and increased pollution causes the mounting of oxygen content in the atmosphere, which is leading to global warming.

The usage of huge amount of plastic bags directs to the corruption of the land and sea. Even if it buries in the earth also, it won’t decompose but convert the land into worse form as infertile. As in the case of other chemical substances, recycling and disposal of plastic remains as a question to sci-tech. if once the plastic is fabricated, the harm is done forever. Recycling, burning, or land filling, whatever it is, the decomposition of plastic never takes place.

Even if it is recycled, the only thing you doing is recycling the hazard again. It only helps to marketing the recycling of poisonous material once more. Since plastic does not endure bacterial decomposition, land filling using plastic would mean preserving the poison forever.

But here, we are in the modest tech-world; even without compromising to the appearance we can get the piece in biodegradable products.

Now it is the high time for all of us to say NO to plastic and plastic products as a whole in order to save our earth from poisonous gases and global warming. Let us make the earth a better place to live and gift a good and healthy living atmosphere to our future generations. The government in different countries are taking initiative, let us support to this effort without any negotiation. Let us make earth more greener and more healthy.

Thomas Dietz, a professor at Michigan State University, says that household energy consumption is responsible for up to 38% of United States carbon emissions (that counts up to 8% of worldly emissions). He insists that home weatherization, regular vehicle maintenance and choosing the clothesline over the dryer would be enough to reduce US carbon emissions by 5% over a period of just five years, and 7.4% in 10 years. Such figures are the equivalent of France’s total carbon footprint, or of total emissions resultant of petroleum refining and the steel and aluminium industry in the United States.

When asked to comment on the research factor, Dietz points out that the investment has been mostly on engineering approaches – but he does make it clear that the best possible technology will be of no use if people do not use it. For the time being, he encourages people to pay attention to behaviour and thus make real progress with the existing technologies.

Dietz’ estimates are not based on any kind of best-case consumer behaviour scenario. Rather, they make use of the best available information for the purpose of calculating the number of families that could reasonably be expected to enact such measures if provided information and financial assistance; and whether or not they could interact with others while at it.

But the list excludes possible emissions cuts with emerging technologies and with whole lifestyle changes. At the very least, Dietz claims that these conservation measures analyzed by the researchers include the benefit of a “demonstration effect” i.e. he would have people believe that when people adopt whatever changes, it will not be long before their acquaintances follow suit.

Dietz insists that there is a lot of research that supports the notion that people, companies and even governments will change their behaviour when they have seen their peers do it.

A very good question always arises when we talk to people, “How do I know if I am buying organic foods…”

Well, we have 5 sure tell signs that a food product is organic:

1. The Food and Drug Administration, as well as your state, set guidelines as to what ingredients make up organic products.  There should be a special certification label on all organic foods.
2. Check out the packaging… If a company is truly committed to being 100% organic, they most likelly will use recyclable packaging.
3. Try to find the point of origin of the food product you are purchasing.  If it is from a local farm or produce center, then chances are, its organic.
4. Take a closer look at the Organic label used by the United States Department of Agriculture.  Foods that have 95% organic components, have a different label then foods that are 100% organic.
5. You can always ask a store clerk or employee which products are organic.  Some grocery stores even have special organic aisles and signage posted.

It is noted by a group of researchers that human life as well as the aquatic life is really at stake at this present moment. According to the researchers the creatures living at the close proximity of water such as the crabs and other insects that have to depend on river water are dreadfully endangered. They are carrying on research how badly the aquatic life is affected as a result of rampant use of insecticides in the fields.

The researchers of Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research have invented a necessary tool that can provide enough data regarding the danger of the organisms and the harmful effect of insecticides on water sources. The researchers are on the way to collect data from different corners of the globe and carry on thorough study to gauge how fatal the effect on insecticides on the organisms is. Thus it also comes to the purview of the researchers where the water is absolutely polluted, where the level is a bit lower. Following this method researchers from France, Germany and Finland have been able to collect the regional data to evaluate the extent of pollution.

According o the researchers if the calculation method is followed suitable steps can be adopted to curb the pollution of the rivers from the grasp of pesticides. According to a scientist from the calculation method it can be known where water is yet to be polluted and how the pure water is trying to compensate the infected water of the rivers. If this effort is successful the avenue of conservation method can be widened. Giving stress on the particular tool the scientist referred that if conservation is successful the complex chemical tests that need much fund can be avoided.