Facebook. Mali's Falatow Jigiyaso Orphanage is Cooled Entirely by Natural Ventillation and Green Building Strategies. Located in the sweltering heat of West Africa, the Falatow Jigiyaso Orphanage has no need for air conditioning or fans thanks to a combination of natural ventilation and other smart building techniques.
Vikalp Sangam. Would you live in a house made of sand and bacteria? Had enough of concrete blocks?
The hugely useful (but harmfully polluting) material responsible for the rise and rise of the modern city can no longer claim to be the only material available to architects. Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has created a possible solution using little more than sand and urea. W01V01 - Introduction (10:08) (11) Forest Loss and the Biodiversity Threshold: An Evaluation Considering Species Habitat Requirements and the Use of Matrix Habitats. Forest Loss and the Biodiversity Threshold: AnEvaluation Considering Species Habitat Requirementsand the Use of Matrix Habitats.
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Energy storage in miniaturized capacitors may boost green energy technology. "Supercapacitors" take the energy-storing abilities of capacitors (which store electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices) a step further, storing a far greater charge in a much smaller package.
Engineers' nanoantennas improve infrared sensing. (Phys.org) —A team of University of Pennsylvania engineers has used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact chemical-analysis techniques.
The research was conducted by assistant professor Ertugrul Cubukcu and postdoctoral researcher Fei Yi, along with graduate students Hai Zhu and Jason C. Reed, all of the Department of Material Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. How Fisher & Paykel and Cuipo are Saving the Rainforest. Every second, over 43,000 square feet of rainforest are destroyed – that’s the equivalent of 4,000 football fields of rainforest decimated every hour.
When these forests are cut down, the plants, animals, and insects that inhabit them are threatened and often driven to extinction. More critically, rainforests provide the planet with oxygen, they maintain the water cycle, they are a source for medicines and foods, and they help to regulate the earth’s climate by storing nearly 300 billion tons of carbon—that’s 40 times the annual greenhouse gas emissions we produce from fossil fuels! Rainforests are essential to sustaining life on earth. Tribal women find empowerment in the food items they collect from forests. Posted 04-Jan-2014 Vol 5 Issue 1 Ruke Pushika, 55, a tribal woman from Rayagada district in Odisha, goes out every day into the forest near her home in Bisam Cuttack block to gather fresh greens, fruits and tubers for her daughter, Tule, who is pregnant.
For a landless widow like Ruke, these ‘uncultivated foods’ are a real godsend – they cost her nothing and yet she knows she is providing the right nutrition not just to her daughter but to other members of her family as well. Compassionate Citizen. Naming Symmetries for Charity. People have stars named after them, craters on the moon, even comets...but how about naming a symmetrical object in hyperspace?
Marcus du Sautoy has discovered some significant new symmetrical objects but they currently have no names. Forget Your Own Health: Stop Drinking Diet Soda for the Good of the Great Lakes. As if the invasive zebra mussels and Asian carp threatening the ecology of the Great Lakes weren’t enough, humans are invading the waters of Superior, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Ontario with our own detritus.
There are the rafts of micobeads that now float across the surface of the world’s largest group of freshwater lakes, pollution courtesy of your exfoliating facial cleaners and body washes. And thanks to that diet soda habit you just can’t seem to kick, the Great Lakes are becomingly subtly sweet—and calorie-free! —because of artificial sweeteners that are evading wastewater treatment facilities and flowing into the watershed. In a study published earlier this month by the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from Environment Canada and University of Waterloo tested the water from the Grand River at 23 sites between its headwaters and where it dumps into Lake Erie.
Renewable Energy. Nike's Shanghai Concept Store is Made With 50,000 Old CDs, 5,500 Used Soda Cans. Everything inside Nike’s newest concept store in Shanghai is made from trash,except for the products on sale of course.
Taiwanese architectural firm Miniwiz Sustainable Development Ltd. used 5,500 soda cans, 2,000 PET water bottles and 50,000 old CDs and DVDs to design the interior and fixtures. Construction and assembly were completed in July this year. Kerala’s own Fidel is devoted to another social cause. Posted 07-Sep-2011 Vol 2 Issue 35. Taking traditional ethnic chic jewellery from rural India to cities and abroad. Posted 13-Dec-2013 Vol 4 Issue 50 They are bright and beautiful, chic and ethnic. Gramothan Foundation. Urja Solutions Bangalore - Home Page. Regina's modern mud house. The Auroville home of Regina and Robi is a charming mud house, built using the age-old wattle and daub technology.
The rotating blades of a windmill, towering over the numerous trees of a man-made forest, mark the entrance to the house of Regina. Thereafter a narrow path leads one to a cluster of sloping roofs that blend into their natural surroundings. Warmth and lightness Regina's house stands on stilts in a shallow pond. A bridge takes one over into the outdoor space that is the heart of the home, the nucleus, held on each side by the three structures that surround it. It can breathe.. The three mud structures are so light in their presence that one would hesitate to call them buildings, the word suggesting massive and solid images. The ground floor has a living room with a chimney, a dark room, and their bedroom, while upstairs is another living room with a terrace and their daughter's room.
Modern Mud Huts. It’s no wonder straw bale, rammed earth, and hempcrete homes are getting more popular: they’re low maintenance, rodent-proof, fire-resistant, eco-friendly, and healthier than conventional houses. Mud Architecture - Construction Details And Techniques. “The thing that hit me in the eye, right from the beginning, was that an enormous amount of use was made of mud! The first thing I discovered was that mud is one thing in one place and a different thing in another. It is used for different purposes and is used in different ways! There are different techniques of sticking it together and making it into a wall or whatever. Earthen Architecture: 15 of the World’s Dirtiest Buildings. Earthen buildings come in a vast variety of shapes and sizes, made from materials like fired clay, compressed dirt and a mixture of clay, sand, straw and water.
People have been using various forms of earth to build structures for centuries, from the traditional thatched cottages in Devon, England to the pueblo villages of the American west. The ancient ‘rammed earth’ building technique has been used in Neolithic architecture sites and modern cathedrals alike. From underground green homes to other futuristic green houses, here are 15 diverse examples of structures made from earthen materials. Great Mosque, the World’s Largest Earthen Building (image via: Wikipedia) Handmade: Mud House. Handmade: Mud House in Bangladesh. 11th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development National Center for Environmental Research 11th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet. A Clean Dozen: 12 Green Must-Haves from Greenbuild. Daughter of illustrious parents, Sanchaita understands the needs of rural poor. Posted 29-Nov-2013 Vol 4 Issue 48 Sanchaita Gajapati Raju, 30, is delighted that she won the inaugural Google Global Impact Challenge India Award by polling the highest number of online votes for her vision of bringing clean drinking water and sanitation to villages in coastal Andhra Pradesh.
Pamphlets, Fliers and Posters on Recycling, Waste Segregation - SWaCH. Green-indian. SAY NO TO PLASTIC ... EVEN MORE PLASTIC FACTS. Why people who don’t bike should support bicycling infrastructure. November 14, 2013. In India, a high-tech toilet that generates revenue. Nokero N222 and N180 Solar Light Bulbs. Clean Production Action. TEDxDoiSuthep - Jon Jandai - Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? Current Conservation. 50 Fearless Minds Changing the World: The Winners.
Over the past two weeks, we've been searching far and wide for passionate professionals who are doing big things. Veganz, the German vegan supermarket is opening in London@TheAllAnimalVegan. Dear Vegans… try to imagine a grocery shopping trip where you don’t have to tiresomely check the ingredients of every item you pick up. Probing the surface of pyrite. Solar Revolution in Africa Puts Rural Villages on the Grid.
The Moses Bridge. West African Inventor Makes a $100 3D Printer From E-Waste. The maker of electric scooter plans to come out with an electric autorickshaw. Serve.me.nus.edu.sg/arun/file/Publications/books/Solar Drying_Fundamentals_Applications_and_Innovations.pdf. Home. Technology Society Video Anand Narayan Selco Labs. ChooseMyBicycle. Www.toyota.co.th/sustainable_plant_en/eco2.swf. Dumb Ways to Die. Cambridge unveils plans to become Retrofit City. Food for thought. WorkshopQ. Green The Gap - the upcycle store. Monisha Narke, Sumegha Kumbhar & Sejal Kshirsagar - R U Reducing, Reusing Recycling (RUR)