JOCO
by: Behance Featured Projects, 2013-03-17 03:30:02 UTC
Brand design, packaging and ongoing creative direction for reusable glass coffee cup brand, Joco.
Ethically minded, Joco are all about equal amounts of substance and style. They care for your coffee as much as Mother Earth, and believe that environmentally safe materials combined with smart design are the best reasons to drink from their cups over plastic alternatives.
The 2013 Philips DesignLine puts a new slant on HDTV
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2013-03-15 06:41:03 UTC
When it comes to HDTV placement, you’ve generally faced with two options – a stand for sitting the TV in an entertainment unit or on a table, or a wall mount. With its 2013 Philips DesignLine, TP Vision is offering a third option – simply leaning the TV against a wall. When it comes to a modern minimalist look, the new DesignLine TV takes the cake, with no visible frame or stand, it looks like nothing more than a square sheet of glass...
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The 2013 Philips DesignLine puts a new slant on HDTV
Section: Home Entertainment
Tags: 3D TVs,
HDTV,
LCD,
Philips,
Smart TV,
TP Vision
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by: Sustainable Design News, 2013-03-07 18:07:45 UTC
Urban Billy Tea System by Elliat Rich
by: mocoloco, 2013-03-15 19:30:56 UTC
Eco friendly dry cleaner in West Palm Beach focuses on service, convenience
by: Ecofriend, 2013-03-14 04:45:25 UTC
The ‘Green’ express
Environment needs to be saved and the steps have to be taken with an immediate effect. You must be aware of the fact that this planet is facing severe threats from demon such as pollution, deforestation and global warming. It is us who have let these demons loose on the environment with our careless actions and it is our duty to curb them from harming the planet and its residents. People from all over the world are realizing the seriousness of the issue and coming together to save the world.
Many people have already boarded this ‘green’ express and many are getting ready to do so. Adopting eco friendly methods is one of the ways by which you can contribute in saving the world. The sustainable methods are being adopted by people from different fields and now you can find everything eco friendly from clothes to cars. Jurate Numavicine is one such individual who has come forth to save the world and taken a wonderful initiative to save the world. Let us move forth on what exactly has she done to contribute to the cause.
Eco friendly dry cleaning
Jurate is forty years old and moved to South Palms Beach around three years earlier from Lithuania and she found out that the dry cleaning condition was not so environmental friendly in South Palms Beach. Jurate was not used to such harmful methods of dry cleaning that could pose threat to the environment plus they also lacked the attention to details. It was then when she decided to take the matter in her hands and do something substantial about the situation. Jurate took the initiative and started OZO2 eco cleaners in the month of January.
This dry cleaning service grabbed eyeballs soon after its opening and now it has customers such as Annette Sebesto. What is different about OZO2 eco cleaners you might ask then there are a lot of things that are different about this dry cleaning service. It has a modern day décor which makes it advanced and it follows the sustainable ways of cleaning and that is what makes it unique and eco friendly. The OZO2 happens to be completely free from chemicals plus the plastic bags used here are totally bio degradable. There are many things that make this effort by Jurate a wonderful one and worth inspiring the people.
Annette Sebesto has a lot of good things to say about this dry cleaning service. Sebesto has been a steady customer of this place since it has been in business and said that he prefers OZO2 eco cleaners above anyone else because of their green methods of cleaning. Annette is happy to be a part of anything that leads to saving the environment from the many problems it is facing today. OZO2 eco cleaners utilizes the Rynex-3 solvent which happens to be completely non hazardous to the planet.
The managing director of OZO2 eco cleaners, Irina told that their aim is to encourage people to adopt things that are better for them and the environment. The machinery at OZO2 is highly efficient and utilizes much less water and energy which makes it eco friendly in every manner possible. You can also find organic products for sale at their outlet which you can take home for money. The whole feel of the store is more like a spa with wooden accents plus plush couches. Complimentary delivery services are also extended by OZO2 eco cleaners to the customers. OZO2 is a wonderful initiative which must be appreciated by everyone.
Eco friendly dry cleaner in West Palm Beach focuses on service, convenience
Honda aims to make hybrids even more eco friendly by recycling the batteries
by: Ecofriend, 2013-03-15 11:01:27 UTC
Hybrid vehicles: the ‘green’ vehicles
The people from all over the world are adopting sustainable methods of living. The main reason behind this trending practice is the desire to save the world from the serious threats such as deforestation and global warming. Sustainable practices can be adopted in various aspects of our daily life such as we can wear eco friendly clothes and accessories, we can adopt sustainable methods of living and cleaning and some major car manufacturing companies have also developed hybrid cars. These hybrid cars are environmental friendly as they consume less fuel and run on electric motors.
More and more people from different parts of the world are switching to hybrid vehicles as they are equally efficient and a much better option as compared to conventional vehicles. Many major car manufacturers have introduced their hybrid vehicles in the market and Honda is one of them. Honda needs no formal introduction as it is a much known name of the automobile industry in the entire world. The Honda hybrid cars are very popular with people as they are perfect combination of style and sustainable technologies. Honda has decided to take its hybrid vehicles a notch higher by using batteries that are recycled. Let us move forth to know more about this latest development by Honda.
The Honda hybrids to get even more sustainable than before
The hybrid vehicles are good for the environment because they are capable of saving gasoline which means that these vehicles curb the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If the hybrid cars are able to do that then it is all thanks to be earth metal batteries installed in them. The name earth metal clearly says that these metals need to be mined from the earth and then it takes a long process to convert them into batteries for these vehicles.
This new pieces of news does not make hybrids as eco friendly as people consider them to be. Therefore Honda has decided to recycle the nickel metal hydride batteries in order to make them less threatening to the nature. Until Honda revealed its new model 2013 Accord Hybrid it had installed the nickel metal hydride batteries in all its hybrid vehicles. The new 2013 Accord Hybrid is installed with lithium-ion battery pack. Honda has shown its skill and innovation and has developed a method in order to recycle the nickel metal hydride batteries by addition of molten salt electrolysis to the metals.
The resulting metal is almost ninety nine percent pure and the metals extracted directly from the earth are also ninety nine percent pure. More than 386 Honda hybrid vehicles were completely hampered by the earthquake that hit Japan. Honda is trying to recycle the batteries from that lot of hybrid cars so that they can be reused in other new cars. This initiative by Honda is worth appreciating as it is another step taken for saving the environment.
When Honda is all finished recycling the batteries from the cars hampered by the Japan earthquake then it will turn its attention towards the cars that are already running with the nickel metal hydride batteries. Honda plans on recycling them too by the time it is ready to launch the new generation of its hybrid vehicles. Honda seems to be sworn to reduce the harmful impact of the pollution caused by the vehicles and that is why it is trying hard to curb the emission of harmful gases. The hybrid cars from Honda are popular in the entire world for their latest technology.
Honda aims to make hybrids even more eco friendly by recycling the batteries
BioLite adds a grill option to its gadget-charging CampStove
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2013-03-15 20:44:55 UTC
Nanotubes boost potential of salinity power as a renewable energy source
by: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, 2013-03-13 04:25:35 UTC
In November 2009, Norwegian state owned electricity company Statkraft opened the world’s first
osmotic power plant prototype, which generates electricity from the difference in the salt concentration between river water and sea water. While osmotic power is a clean, renewable energy source, its commercial use has been limited due to the low generating capacities offered by current technology – the Statkraft plant, for example, has a capacity of about 4 kW. Now researchers have discovered a new way to harness osmotic power that they claim would enable a 1 m
2 (10.7 sq. ft.) membrane to have the same 4 kW capacity as the entire Statkraft plant. ..
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Nanotubes boost potential of salinity power as a renewable energy source
Section: ecoGizmo
Tags: Electricity,
Membrane,
Nanotechnology,
Nanotubes,
Osmosis,
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by: Core77, 2013-03-13 14:00:00 UTC
With additional editorial support from Nathan Jones, Keith Lampi, Gaylon White, Jos de Wit
Natural disasters can happen anywhere with little or no warning. When they do, they threaten community water sources and jeopardize public health by destroying vital pipelines or existing sanitation systems allowing the introduction of contaminants into the drinking water supply. One of the most immediate concerns post-disaster is providing a supply of clean, safe hydration to survivors to help prevent the occurrence and spread of waterborne diseases.
"Water is one of the first things that a victim of a natural disaster has to have to survive," says Nathan Jones, vice president of government and institutional sales at HTI. "Many of the deaths that occur from natural disasters don't happen because of the disaster itself, but what happens later—the waterborne disease that sweeps through the population."
Every few years, villages in Mudimbia, Kenya are destroyed from floodwaters.
Humans can only live for a few days without hydration. In fact, waterborne illness can be the leading cause of death in the aftermath of a disaster. According to UNICEF, 1.5 million children die of waterborne illnesses every year. One in five children worldwide die from diarrhea—that's more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. On any given day, over 50% of the world's hospital beds are occupied by people suffering from water borne disease.
Today, more than 1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water and the United Nations predicts that by 2025, 2/3 of the world's population will face periodic and severe water shortage.
Starting in a Corvallis, Oregon, garage in 1987, Keith Lampi, now executive vice president and chief operating officer for Hydration Technology Innovations (HTI), Robert Salter and some college friends began focusing on how forward osmosis could be used in various humanitarian and industrial applications. In 1988, Lampi and Salter founded HTI in Albany, Oregon, with the purpose of utilizing their engineering and chemistry expertise to pioneer innovative membrane technology research using forward osmosis as a foundation.
When a fire destroyed HTI's Albany facility in 2007, the disruption ironically allowed Lampi and his team a bit of space to work on some of the world's wicked water problems. From those efforts, the HydroPack was born—an emergency hydration solution created specifically for use during the critical first days after a natural disaster.
Victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti received HydroPacks
"Our earliest forward osmosis pouch was a two-liter bag that we had developed for the military. But it required radio frequency welding and was fairly expensive to make," says Dr. Jack Herron, director of product development at HTI. "Our desire was to create a relatively inexpensive pouch for disaster relief. The picture I had in mind was a 10-year-old child in a flood in India. What would he be attracted to and want to drink? What could he use properly without training? I knew from my days as a soccer dad that kids love juice pouches, so that was sort of the model. We also wanted to utilize a heat-seal process to keep the cost down. The HyrdroPack was the result."
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Paint Stacks by Leah Rosenberg
by: design milk, 2013-03-13 15:00:38 UTC
Using delicious cake as inspiration, Leah Rosenberg forms layer upon colorful layer of teetering stacks of paint in her Paint Stacks series.
Each layer is made by pouring acrylic paint onto trays, and then peeling after drying. Stacking the layers transforms the thin sheets into sculptures. Each sheet representing time, memories, and emotions that “literally pile up.” The results are are rainbow-colored, cake-like explorations of time.
From the artist:
Each layer of color is informed by both personal and everyday experience. The final piece mixes the internal and intimate with the world of received images and external encounters.
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