Eco-lighting is the norm of the day. This small cute-looking spherical light is powered by the clean energy of sunshine. Let it soak the sun for a day and it will show you its magic the moment you switch it on. A lovely soft ambient glow!
You can hang it from a ceiling, use it for dimly lit areas like basements or closets. In mood some color for your pool party?

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What kills roughly 2 million people but is not AIDS? Answer: indoor cooking related diseases. Shocked? This fact is found and recorded in a World Health Organization report. The problem aggravates in villages where modern gas burners are rarely available and the smoke chullas (stoves) are vicious enough to choke your lungs!
In an attempt to alleviate this situation, students from MIT have designed a clean solar cooker out of yak-wool canvas panels, for villagers of the Himalayan region. The panels are stretched over bamboo ribs and faced with reflective Mylar in a manner that in first look you might think it to be some sort of an umbrella!

But this unique light weight cooking device comes for only $17 and for an extra $26 one can attach a metal coil for heating one’s house. This solar cooker helps in cutting down carbon emission as opposed to the traditional yak dung or wood fuel the cooker uses solar power to make yummy food! Its design has won a prize and loads of public attention at the MIT IDEAS competition and in near future one may happen to find it in markets for sale. This means clean and green cooking at an affordable price and no more choking or coughing over horrible gas stoves!

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It’s a well thought stride out to make available 20% of electric power to Beijing’s Olympic site via 64,500 kilowatts competence wind power set up.  This extensive power production venture would anticipatory bring in 100 million-kWh electricity every year. With internally build up 43 wind power entities this scheme intends at accumulating 50,000 tones of coal per year. While coming into action on Jan. 20, besides delivering 35 million kWh of eco-hazard free power to Beijing this plant former division assists in incising annual secretion of CO2 by 100,000 tones. This electrifying wind power plant, China’s first of its own kind endeavor assures to accomplish an eco friendly Olympics and convene for the ever-increasing requirements of 100,000 family circles on a daily basis.

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Peugeot seed concept car is an upshot of a high school student Andrew Kim’s intellect. His wits and marvelous green concept car weighing against his age are beyond belief. If you desire to go on covertly, this inimitable car blueprint would magnetize you, as it has no windscreen and windows. Additionally, the Cameras and real-time visuals on the car precisely depict the path facilitating disruption free driving. Bent in a dreadfully sleek and aerodynamic trend this car eases haul. An electric engine would pedal the car trimming down the effluence and fumes intensity. Andrew Kim’s car crafted in awfully graceful and prominent manner seems to be a promising way out for environment perils.

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You may find a hundred and one new lighting options, lamps and lampshades in markets today but I bet none would be as elegant, strikingly beautiful and innovative as this Penta pendant lamp. Designed by Luca Casarotto at Coscadesign studio Penta brings the best an Italian designer has to offer you! Its beauty lies in its unique design and its origin. It is designed to adapt light as per your requirements. An elegant chiaroscuro light texture can be obtained by keeping the lamp in a fully open configuration. The lamp comes laced with dynamic optic chiasm utilizing rotatory motion to deliver brilliant shades of light.

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Its holiday season and the internet, newspapers & magazines are rife with travel options and eco-tourism offers. For those who like to spend their money on quality deals like a concern for nature and like to opt for a LEED certified hotel, here’s another option-Blue (tourism) if you are bored with ‘green’ one!

Blue tourism is the latest offering to the environmentally concerned vacationers. This new concept in world travel is an initiative taken by Kerzner Marine Foundation. The latter is a private, non-profit foundation by Kerzner International that owns and operates the Atlantis on Paradise Island (Bahamas). The foundation is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of endangered global marine ecosystems which have become the poor victims of over-exploitation by humans. It has started The Blue Project in the newest hotel there, The Reef and to ultra luxurious Cove Atlantis hotel (already a preferred choice among tourists).

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In London the new fashion of the night is go to disco knowing not weigh on the planet in terms of production and waste of energy. It ‘been opened in these days eco disco Bar Surya, near King’s Cross. The owner, manco to say, you call Dr. Earht (Mister Earth). Other names that the provocateurs of the DJ and night club managers!

Everything seems inspired the environment, starting from the name for Hindus Surya is the deity who represents the sun! Part of local energy comes from wind turbines and solar panels. The furniture is made of recycled materials or parts and even water is recycled water. The videos sent to TV broadcast from around the local transmit messages strictly eco-educational.

But there’s more. Much of the energy needed to establishment derives from the dance floor. Customers of disco dancing produce energy. Moving on track guests of operating crystals, pressed between them, generate power for the electric system and the air conditioning system. Even before his inauguration The Republic had anticipated the news explaining what’s behind this track!

Designboom., the Design Association Japan and TOBU department stores have launched an international environmental graphics with content. The two categories of competition are Earth, involving graphic works that esemplifichino mutually beneficial coexistence between man and environment, and Green, specifically for the Christmas period in which it asks to imagine a way of giving the world a more environmentally friendly Christmas. You can see the results of last edition Designboom.

In prize, as well as a few hundred thousand yen, there is a chance to expose their works at the Tokyo Designer’s Week 2008, from October 30 to November 3. You have until August 26 to send your works. Good work!

Gone are the days when keeping antique wood furniture was considered fashionable. Though, chairs and tables carved out of wood are considered classic but for environmental reasons it would be amoral to cut endangered forests for a mere table’s sake!

Nevertheless, you can still decorate your house with classic-looking furniture by Amy Hunting-this one recycled from wood waste and off-cuts. This way you can also become a part of the eco-savvy groups and still enjoy the wooden beauty without harming the nature any further.

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PS1 Gallery current Art Center, an arm of MOMA, celebrates 10th year of Warm Up, PS1 Gallery is a annual summer music series, in New York. This year folks who go to catch DJs and live music will be have opening to also visit a farmers market, dip their feet in a cool pool, and in general chill in shade of Public Farm 1, by Work Architecture Company.

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