Fourqueux : bientôt un parc de verdure au cœur du village.
OpenIDEO - How might we establish better recycling habits at home? - Less - make recycling a social and collective effort. A mobile app that converts our recycling actions into points that are ranked against friends and communities on a social platform. This allows people to track their progress, see the collective impact generated among their friends/neighbourhoods, and provides constant motivation through peer-competition. Aggregating people's small recycling actions into a larger community setting helps show the true collective impact people are having on the world and peer-pressurises people to do more.
Users will earn badges for special achievements, level up, and always know how much positive impact they have made on the world. The app has three main goals: Track the recycling progress of each individual and reward points for each good action (such as donating clothes). Jeremy wants to recycle more and more but he's not really sure of his progress or how he compares to his friends. Kelly is a year 11 high school student and her school has started a competition to see which year group recycles more. OpenIDEO - How might we establish better recycling habits at home? - CycleUp - Improve recycling across your community. 3RD UPDATE: Working prototype with neighbors 2ND UPDATE: Household Pledges. 1ST UPDATE: Smart wi-fi scale to track your recycling rates.
CycleUp is a web app for improving recycling habits among entire communities. YOUR HOUSEHOLD - The app experience begins by showing your recycling rate and rank, using gamification, incentives, pledges and social status to encourage your household to recycle. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD - You then scale up to the Neighborhood view, where you compete against your neighbors for top rank, using competition, social pressure, and monthly rewards to encourage more recycling. YOUR CITY - Finally, you scale up to the City view, where you go from competing with neighbors to collaborating with them to become the top ranked neighborhood in your city, using teamwork, group status, and neighborhood rewards to improve recycling across your neighborhood. 3RD UPDATE - June 17th, 2014 (SEE UPDATED SLIDES AS WELL): Prototype (Underway) I asked four of my neighbors to participate in trying out CycleUp for three weeks. 2ND UPDATE - June 7th, 2014 (SEE UPDATED SLIDES AS WELL): Gathering Data.
Recycle Beacon | Social Recycling. MyEarth app visualizes energy saving efforts by letting you save a virtual polar bear. If you’ve ever wondered what impact – if any – your daily recycling or water-saving efforts have on the environment, there is a new app that wants to help you keep track of your contribution in a very visual way. The app, called “MyEarth,” was designed by University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology professor Nancy Wong and uses a diary format in which you can choose daily activities to reduce your carbon emissions and energy consumption.
Tracking sustainability efforts Inspired by food-tracking apps that help users monitor calorie intake and eating habits, Wong and her team created “MyEarth” to let users set up and check off daily activities across five categories: electricity, recycling, travel, food and usage. Activities range from easy-to-do things like recycling a milk bottle to more intricate activities like installing a high-efficiency toilet to save water and reduce the impact on wastewater treatment projects.
Save a polar bear The result? Collen Kriel. Street Lamp and Fitness Equipment Blend Into Smart Lighting Concept. Green Dot Award/via Have you ever wondered how the energy expended by joggers or people using the fitness equipment in public parks could be harnessed for the greater good? Neither have I. But apparently someone is thinking about this and has come up with an interesting concept gadget.
The CityLight Street Lamp, a winner in the Green Dot Award, is a street light that is powered by humans, or at least in part. From the entry: CITYLIGHT is a hybrid urban illumination system driven by two distinct sources: human-power and electricity. I have to admit that while it's highly unlikely this thing will ever see the light of day -- or any light for that matter -- it's still an interesting idea.
Green technologies – Envi | Spicytec. Today, due to climate changes, political issues, social evolution and the emerging markets, we are... Today, due to climate changes, political issues, social evolution and the emerging markets, we are fighting against the clock with our waste. Design becomes responsible for a green and environment-friendly future more than ever. Can you imagine the tomorrow’s world full of «green» waste under the pretext that Mother Nature will do the work? That’s why today’s designer can be more like an “ecological father” of new ideas, for the next coming generations.
Envi, is a foresight urban dustbin, promoting composting from biodegradable waste. The project is based on a social approach. It shows the benefits that we can take from urban recycling. This project uses bio-reactive substances based on photo catalysis to accelerate the degradation process of waste, remove bad smells and polluting gas. Source Nothing Else to Do... Biolamp Concept Cleans the Air, Fuels Eco Cars. While we've seen concept designs recently really focus on helping the environment in one fashion or another, we haven't seen many that actually focus on two separate causes at once, and aim to fix both of them with one device.
The Biolamp concept design is meant to not only clean the air, but also fuel eco cars. The design implements solar energy, as well as the usage of a specialized liquid to make the magic happen. The Biolamp is designed to convert carbon dioxide into fuel. This fuel is meant to power the street lamps at night, as well as eco-friendly vehicles.
The rest of the biomass is then filtered through a pipe system underground to a facility that will transform it into usable fuel for eco cars. [via TheDesignBlog] Urban Landscape concept-WARP. WARP is a concept of green and clean spaces that are self-sustaining. The concrete will be coated with nutritional and recreational vegetation. It will also produce micro-climes. They will support green regions in private and public islands. This concept is very important and can change our fate. Our ozone layer is thinner and glaciers are melting. There is a lot of pollution that is destroying our planet. WARP offers many benefits more. Still, we are destroying our environment. Flying partage Hobby » Eco-friendly président utilise notre corps à produire de l'énergie.
Vous êtes ici: Maison » Technologie Nouvelles » Eco-friendly président utilise notre corps à produire de l'énergie Go 'par Rizki Tarisa est une chaise tout-en-un qui a un bureau, chaise longue, Poste de travail et un appareil d'exercice d'un seul. Imaginez-vous assis confortablement à parler à vos amis sur MSN, en sirotant un café et d'exercer à la fois-sa multi-tâches à un nouveau niveau entier, Je vous le dis. Il peut même accéder à l'Internet! Le seul hic, c'est que vous avez à vélo pour l'énergie . Le "Go" par Rizki Tarisa utilise une forme d'énergie que nous avons eu tout au long de: c'est la prochaine grande source d'énergie renouvelable connue de l'humanité.
Bien, c'est l'humanité! Oui, c'est ça, Rizki Tarisa est venu avec une idée qui utilise notre corps à produire de l'énergie. Related Posts. Solar-Powered Info-Point: Self-Supporting Kiosk For Urban Community. Harnessing energy from the Sun, this self-supporting Solar-Powered Info-point kiosk uses the modern tech for people to stay connected. The system consists of two modules: the main one with touch screens and chargers, and the second module being a cross-shaped bench for rest; both of them have solar panels, USB chargers, and LED lamps providing info about events in the city and rest to the visitors concurrently. This Info-point was designed by Ekaterina Shchetina, Desislava Ivanova and Tsuyoshi Sogabe for Expo 2015 that is to be held in Milan, Italy. » Green Air Future Concept Future technology. Green Air Concept by Wang Yi Peng, Fan Xu and Zhu RB is something very helpful for us.
Admit it, we often spend too long in front of our lifeless desktop computer or laptop when working, and sometimes we forget to take a rest once for a while. We are like a machine anyways, especially when deadline is drawing near! However, no matter how important the task in hand is, we have to take a rest regularly every 25 to 30 minutes of work.
With Green Air concept, I believe not only I can have a futuristic LED clock for counting my time, I’ll also get a “greener” desktop as Green Air is all about the green grass sprouting out from your monitor. Green Air combine the nature with the technology. Via Yanko Design Future computersTechnology devicesFuture technology 2020Measuring paper. Phone Charger Concept: StreetCharge by Pensa | Redesign Report. Of all the new cell phone charger concepts you can now carry around with you, it doesn’t help the fact that sometimes, we have to scramble when we need to call someone or check a map because we just don’t have a place to charge. Brooklyn-based design company, Pensa, has developed a concept that provides an elegant solution the urbanite’s problem with their Street Phone Charger concept, StreetCharge.
According to Pensa: In our urban environments, we are often in need of a quick place to recharge. Most of us have been out of juice at one time or another. Check out the concept photos below. As a current New Yorker, I’m absolutely in love with this concept and the answer it provides for everyone, since you might be the unlucky one who isn’t near a Starbucks when you need a quick 5 minute charge. » Concept Eco newspaper of the future Future technology. In order to reduce the production of paper and inks, was created the project "Eco-newspaper" of the future. Periodical press appears in the new capacity. Gadget is a pico projector, that creates text of fresh release favorite newspaper on the table. In order, to emphasize environmental quality this a concept gadget ,it uses bio-battery power. However, the principle of the device which was not disclosed. Iteresno very probably be reading a newspaper!
Not it, right? Designer Shen Guo Concept Green phonePage E-ReaderFuturistic GadgetPolaroid camera 2010. Energy Carousel – Utiliser l’énergie infinie des enfants ? On dit souvent que les enfants débordent d’énergie… Alors pourquoi ne pas l’utiliser ? « Energy Carousel » est un étonnant projet imaginé par le studio espagnol Ecosistema Urbano, qui revisite les jeux pour enfants en les transformant en source d’énergie !
Ce carrousel est en effet capable de générer de l’énergie grâce à une dynamo et à des batteries dissimulés dans le sol. Cette énergie est ensuite utilisée pour l’éclairage une fois le soir venu. Une manière de sensibiliser les enfants au problème de l’énergie et à ses alternatives. Images © Ecosistema Urbano / via. Van Gogh-Roosegaarde cycle path by Roosegaarde / Heijmans. How the Dutch love of cycling is glowing in the dark to inspire innovation | Sci-Tech | DW.COM | 21.11.2014. For a country that has more bicycles than residents, these words will seem unbelievable: "What we see is that the bicycle is getting more popular.
" We're in The Netherlands. And Martijn van Es of the Dutch Cyclists' Union laughs as he says the words. But here's the catch: "It's not just with cyclists, but also with policy makers and engineers. " The global economic crisis - including widespread energy concerns - has inspired engineers and policy makers to look for more cost-effective, environmentally friendly, winter-proof bicycle lanes. Their quest has resulted in innovations seen nowhere else in the world. One such innovation is the Van Gogh-Roosegaarde cycle lane that has opened this month. At night, thousands of green and blue glowing stones encased within the concrete lighten up a bicycle lane that trails through a dark and open field. Will glow-in-the-dark bicycle paths inspire new love for old? The swirling pattern of the stones was inspired by Van Gogh's painting starry night. These amazing tents can collect water, fold up and harvest energy from the sun.
Extreme challenges await for environmental migrants as a direct result of climate change. The United Nations estimates that by 2050 the earth will have to come face to face with 200 million environmental refugees. Families will lose their farmland and subsistence. For them, movement will become a fundamental part of being human as they attempt to resettle in unfamiliar lands, carrying only the amenities from home which they can fit in their two hands. To provide a solution for this increasingly relevant problem of the not too distant future, award winning designer Abeer Seikaly bases her design on temporary huts of nomadic tribes. The lightweight, portable, and flexible shelters for disaster zones are made of a structural woven fabric that can adapt to hot and cold climates.
The shelters’ double-layered skin is hollow which allows cross ventilation, while also being able to seal up and huddle down during rainy months and frigid winters. Sources: abeerseikaly.com. GRAINE D'ENERGIE - ROLAND GARROS 2014. One Beat One Tree. One Beat One Tree par Naziha Mestaoui. L'Art numérique et écologique de Naziha Mestaoui. En Slovaquie, un arbre écologique et connecté pour une ville plus intelligente. One Heart One Tree - L'art numérique et écologique de Naziha Mestaoui. Villes intelligentes : entre technologie et environnement. Les technologies qui vont rendre les villes de demain plus écologiques. IssyGrid. C’est déjà demain #35 : place aux Green Techs ! 90jours — Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant pour faire partie du défi «90 jours»
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