'green/diy design' Www.tinyhousedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RainwaterHarvestingManual_3rdedition.pdf. Small House Plans from Tumblewed Tiny House Company. DIY-HOME-BUILDING. How to Move Yourself Off-The-Grid. World’s largest sustainable city developed in China. The world's largest sustainable city, extending about 30 square kilometers, with urban living conditions has been developed in South Asian country of China.
Rising from wastelands in China, the globe's biggest eco-city of Tianjin is located 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast from Beijing that means less than an hour on the new high-speed train line. The city, designed to be around half the size of Manhattan Island in the United States, is slated to be enriched by the hottest energy-saving technologies. Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, the city is planned to have an advanced light rail transit system and varied eco-landscapes ranging from a sun-powered solarscape to a greenery-clad earthscape for its estimated 350,000 residents.
A sustainable city or eco-city is a preplanned city to produce their own energy, food and water in a way that does not cause detriment to the world in forms such as waste, water pollution or damage to the air. Get the Lead Out! Cartridge-Free (& Erasable) Pencil Printer. How about a portable desktop printer that prints out pages you can erase?
Beyond being a great, green and cheap alternative to buying endless colored ink cartridges, the prints themselves have a hand-made feel that only comes from that traditional graphite we all associate with hand-written letters and memos. Like the idea so far? Time to mix it up a bit: there is also a section of eraser dust, making this quite possibly the only printer idea designed to not only produce text or images on paper, but to even allow you to ‘delete’ what you have done as needed! Version two this ingenious idea by designer Hoyoung Lee is a bit more streamlined and portable, but boils down to the same simple black/gray-on-white process.
This tube-shaped design alternate plays on the aesthetic of a rolled piece of paper – and fits inside a portfolio tube just like a set of drawings or blueprints would. Traditional Food Preservation Methods Put Fridges On Ice. Technology moves our society along – there is no doubt about that.
But there is something to be said for low-tech traditions that served the human race well for thousands of years. Designer Jihyun Ryou is encouraging the world to leave their refrigerators behind and return to the traditional wisdom that allowed people to keep food fresh long before these energy hogs became permanent parts of our homes. The project is called Shaping Traditional Oral Knowledge – Save Food From the Fridge. It uses traditional materials to store food without artificial cooling. The Dryness of Spices segment above uses rice beneath cork lids to absorb moisture, keeping the spices within glass jars dry and free of clumps.
Verticality of Root Vegetables keeps root veggies like carrots in their natural growing posture. Organic Gardening, Modern Homesteading, Renewable Energy, Green Homes, DIY Projects – MOTHER EARTH NEWS. Eco Friendly Companies - StumbleUpon. Sustainability / Eco.