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?

Throw this ball shaped light in your swimming pool (its waterproof!) and watch it float & emit a cool display of blue, white, yellow, red and green lights! This LED light can be disabled at the touch of a button to let its build in battery get recharged when not in use. It will cost you just $21.99 and can be purchased at USB fever. Have a colorful time with this magic solar light!

Via: goodcleantech

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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!

Via: wiredscience

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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.

For modest settings and a simple evening dinner close it and Penta becomes a plain light source which can illuminate anything behind (tables, furniture pieces). The lamp comes with a number of joints and components which gives it a 3-D feel.

Now, comes the best part. This beauty originates from 100% recycled stuff (polyethylene flat components) and thus promises to be an A-grade eco-friendly product. Penta definitely is the thing to be placed inside your house!

Via:  yankodesign

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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).

The Blue project offers resort guests & visitors an opportunity to support the ocean and interact with marine life through a carefully crafted combination of ocean-based experiences that are also benefiting the marine conservation programs.

A portion of revenue collected from booking fees for the recreational programs and ocean tours and hotel stay per se is donated to the Blue Project. Both the project and the foundation lay stress on scientific research, education and community outreach to preserve the marine flora & fauna via eco-tourism.
The Reef spells innovation at many levels. It is the Atlantis resort’s 1st Condotel. The latter means that a guest can purchase an ultra-luxe suite (furnished and equipped by the hotel) for his/her use for any ninety days in a year and for the rest of the time, this condo remains in the hotel’s rental pool. The owner receives 50% of fee.

The condo suites are designed for an ultimate experience of luxury and relaxation. Every suite has a master bedroom, living spaces, gorgeous bathrooms, ocean view and Nassau harbor view and a personal kitchen all fully furnished! The Reef lacks a restaurant which explains the presence of your own kitchen in your suite. Besides, on rainy days one can explore a host of indoor facilities provided by the resort. These include a movie theatre, a pottery studio and an arcade.. At the Reef, kids can enjoy a 24-hour “Toy Room Service as well.

In case you like fishes and love to explore marine life there’s snorkeling to do at the 171 acres of beach area at The Atlantis. The latter also provides a stupendous view of aqua-life in its own aquarium which has more than 50,000 fish, a predator pool and a Dolphin Cay (Wow!).

One can participate in the Kerzner Marine Foundation’s efforts by visiting the fish hospital, fish nursery, special food-prep areas and state-of-the-art labs to monitor water quality. Bahamas is a heaven waiting for you and your family. For further details and more information on reservations, visit the Reef Atlantis but don’t be lazy for the resort runs choc-a-block with tourists across globe during the peak-season!

Via: roadandtravel

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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!

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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!

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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.

Amy has a collection consisting of a chair, a book box and a series of 12 lamps (these lamps can be stacked one on top of the other). All of these are made by wooden patchwork sans screws & bolts. The book box has built in book stands thus making room for different sized books which can be placed randomly inside it. The box holds the books like a mother caresses her baby so you don’t have to worry about books falling out of place!

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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.

PS1 Gallery is a series of eco-friendly cardboard tubes that grows rainwater-irrigated veggies while provided that solar-powered cell-phone charging and community play space.

Among interactive mechanism of PS1 Gallery are swings, cubby hole seats and a periscope, and columns that offered dissimilar tactile and acoustic experience– like being fuzzy or sounding like nighttime. PS1 Gallery is a thought as vital to sustainability as term “organic.” Plus that wading pool looks actually nice for a hot day.

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