Tag: Sustainable Design

Stackable urban beehive

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Stackable Urban Beehive is Perfect for Beginner Beekeepers | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
mrspie, inhabitat.com

Seek­ing to help restore the world’s declin­ing honey bee pop­u­la­tion, design­er Rowan Dun­ford has cre­at­ed a sim­ple, stack­able bee­hive that makes it easy for any­one to raise bees. Dun­ford’s …

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The Globe (Hedron) Is a Geodesic Greenhouse

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The Globe (Hedron) Is a Geodesic Greenhouse for Urban Farmers | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
timotheos says:, inhabitat.com

Pre­dict­ing food short­ages in the 21st cen­tu­ry, Zurich-based Urban­Farm­ers AG and Con­cep­tu­al Devices have teamed up to pro­duce plans for the Globe (Hedron), a geo­des­ic green­house that rests on the top of flat roofs in urban areas. The…

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These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container

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These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

Just because a house is pre-fabricated doesn’t mean it’s easy to move. But Connect Homes’ innovation is to make them fit in shipping containers, so high-end green design can end up anywhere on the planet.

Pre-fab homes have found a new wave of…

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Too green gadgets of 2013

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Top 6 Gadgets for the Home to Help You Go Green in 2013 | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Alyssa Alimurung says:, inhabitat.com

It may still be Decem­ber, but we’re already think­ing about our res­o­lu­tion to make 2013 our green­est year yet. In addi­tion to those clas­sic resolves to eat health­i­er, spend more time with fam­i­ly and friends, and maybe shed a few extra…

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How worms can make money off of airport waste

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1.9 Million Worms Chomp Down Airport Waste in North Carolina | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher HOW TO: Green Your Christmas Tree TweetShare on TumblrEmail Christmas trees are one of the most enjoyable traditions of the holiday season, and there are lots of easy ways to go green with your Christmas tree: from using living potted Christmas trees, to recycled cardboard trees, to buying LED Xmas lights. After weighing the choices every December for years, and going […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

The Char­lotte Dou­glas Inter­na­tion­al Air­port in North Car­oli­na has deployed 1.9 mil­lion worms to turn a boat­load of organ­ic waste into fer­til­iz­er. Every day the air­port house­keep­ing depart­ment head­ed by Bob Lucas process­es 2.5 t…

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Green tech tips for saving on your heating bill

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7 Winter Home Improvement Tips to Save You Money and Energy In the Cold Season | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Mark Boyer says:, inhabitat.com

This year’s record break­ing sum­mer high tem­per­a­tures and gen­er­al wor­ri­some warm­ing trend don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean that the com­ing win­ter will be a walk in the park. Before the cold weath­er strikes, get your home but­toned up and rea…

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Designer bacteria decode your health via your poo

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E. chromi Designer Bacteria Will Color Your Poo According to Your Illness | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
natural run says:, inhabitat.com

E. chro­mi is an exper­i­men­tal col­lab­o­ra­tion between design­ers and sci­en­tists work­ing in the field of syn­thet­ic biol­o­gy. Royal Col­lege of Art grad­u­ates’ James King and Daisy Gins­berg, togeth­er with Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge’s…

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Coco mat Eco mattress: get a sustainable night’s sleep

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Get a Sustainable Night’s Sleep On an Ultra-Comfy, Uber-Cozy Coco-Mat Mattress | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Yuka Yoneda says:, inhabitat.com

The aver­age per­son sleeps around eight hours a night — which amounts to a third of your life spent in bed. But despite the amount of time that we find our­selves tucked under our cov­ers, most of us don’t give much thought to the place we plant …

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Egg shape office of the future

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Egg-Shaped Mobile House Extension is No Ordinary Blob | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
caeman says:, inhabitat.com

Believe it or not, this adorable egg-shaped “blob” is actu­al­ly a house! Orig­i­nal­ly built as a home office exten­sion for Xfac­tor Agen­cies, the unique design was vehe­ment­ly opposed by Bel­gian author­i­ties. In order to cir­cum­vent build­…

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Harvard bio library stores 70 billion books on DNA

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Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
GreatEmerald says:, inhabitat.com

DNA photo from Shut­ter­stock

A team from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty’s Wyss Insti­tute for Bio­log­i­cal­ly Inspired Engi­neer­ing has dis­cov­ered a way to store 70 bil­lion books in a space the size of your thumb­nail! Using…

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Glowing fish sculptures from recycled bottles

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Gigantic Glowing Fish Sculptures Made From Recycled Bottles Rise From Rio Beach | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from the […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Two giant fish sculp­tures are jump­ing out of a beach in Rio de Janiero, and they’re made entire­ly from recy­cled plas­tic bot­tles! The scales of the epic sculp­tures were made by lin­ing up hun­dreds of empty clear plas­tic bot­tles, giv­ing t…

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The world’s first solar powered nation

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Pacific Tokelau Island Chain Becomes World’s First Solar-Powered Nation | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from the […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

The remote Pacif­ic Island ter­ri­to­ry of Toke­lau has offi­cial­ly become the world’s first solar-powered nation! The pop­u­la­tion of 1,411 peo­ple decid­ed to end their reliance on around 2,000 bar­rels of diesel each year, and instead install…

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