Ishan Sidhu: Everyone wants to go green in their own style. Recycling and reusing has become a common trend among architects and designers. Anything is recycled and turned into a masterpiece. After all it’s the need of our planet to go green as much as possible. Considering this need of the hour, architects Miguel Angel Mota and Fabrice Villaume, along with designer Luz Elena Morena have built a green house named, ’Tide House’. Tide House Picture Gallery Tide house This house made of recycled shipping containers. The house is build out of two recycled shipping containers and great emphasis is placed on the environmentally friendly design and textures. The original model has been modified as per the need of customers and most of the material used is recycled creating a unique and stylish example of eco tech house for Europe. The walls of the house are coated with the white polished concrete resulting in very interesting texture and medium of reflecting incident light. The house is quite unusual and yet it’s functional and multifaceted. Space is used very well for various activities and it can be used as a house, a workshop and even an art gallery. It has a garden in the backyard as well as in the front. The front garden overlooks the garage and main entrance. The two containers are connected by a bridge, creating a loft with all available material. It is purely an eco friendly industrial design of green architecture. Via: Domuseverde

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Rahul Gupta: The ever increasing use of vehicles on the roads and the emissions produced by them has affected our environment severely. Many initiatives have been taken up by eco designers, who are upbeat about promoting the use of less emission producing vehicles. The best way to reduce emissions is by using vehicles powered by electricity. Many renowned auto companies are designing such vehicles that produce lesser noise and definitely help you reduce your carbon footprint. Recently, industrial designer Niels Grubak has come up with an electric vehicle concept, named 2+. 2+ EV-Concept Car Picture Gallery 2+ EV-Concept Car EV-concept for the megacity. According to the designer, the electric vehicle concept is made for megacities that mostly deal with parking issues. The design of the electric vehicle revolves around the concept of motors, which help the vehicle’s wheels to turn 90 degrees, allowing the car to move sideways. This feature will be helpful for parking management in crowded cities. The vehicle can carry two people with luggage and four without it. The concept of the vehicle is imaginative, creative and flexible and caters to the growing need of eco friendly futuristic transportation. Via: Nielsgrubak

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2+ concept electric vehicle moves sideways for easy parking

Shruti Mukim: Jewelry has been an all time favorite with women of all age groups as it allows them to beautify their attire and adds to the charm of their personality. What better way of designing could one think of, rather than doing it the eco friendly way, which serves a dual purpose of adorning and highlighting a woman’s innermost desires, while being gentle on the planet and the environment.

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Radhicka S Saxena: Improper management of waste has been a huge concern lately. Adequate disposal and treatment of waste, so that it does not harm the environment in any way, is very important. Waste thrown out of our homes can be easily put to good use. Urban architecture of the future should take into account all waste management challenges and seek to provide a sustainable solution. One such viable project is coming up at Providence, Rhode Island. Into the Trenches Picture Gallery Into the Trenches It has been designed by Can Vu Bui. A ditch, which goes 80 feet deep, would be constructed in the city. Water out flowing from the city would then be amassed there. The accumulated water will be treated and then directed back into the river through an all new low lying canyon that will be built in the city. The space will also be a center for waste management. Today, most of the waste from Rhode Island is dumped into landfills and they will get saturated in the coming few decades. Thus, a waste management facility is really needed keeping the future in mind. Moreover, the boundary slopes of the structure will be used as a public recreation zone. Anaerobic digestors, fitted into the structure, will convert solid waste into energy. This energy will be utilized to power up the facility as well as the public space. The whole layout is planned beautifully; it looks nothing like a recycling plant. The structure has a modern built and a refreshing setting. Via: Canvubui

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Turning a ditch into as sustainable public space

Although it's a festival of excess in many ways, Super Bowl XLVI, taking place this Sunday, reveals how far the NFL — and pro sports in general — has come in considering and trying to reduce their environmental impacts.

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To lower its carbon footprint, White Wave Foods is tackling methane emissions, carbon sequestration and utilities, such electricity and gasoline.

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Sonia Renthlei: The world is now taking green living seriously in view of the increased damage being caused to the environment. Manufacturers of consumer products are looking at eco friendly resources for producing goods and are also utilizing what is known as eco packaging to market their products. These packages made from biodegradable materials are replacing plastic and metal rapidly. If every manufacturer joins the bandwagon, we may soon see the world get rid of plastic, leaving the earth cleaner and healthier.

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Pratima Kalra: The hybrid pedal transportation endeavors to bring in an all new class of transportation for modern commuting. We all are aware about the environmental pressures that are building up as roads are clogging with rapidity, constantly anguishing the scientific world. As an answer to this problem, designer David Bonanni, has came up with a healthy alternative in the form a hybrid tricycle, which comes loaded with both, functionality and aesthetic beauty. Hybrid Pedal Transportation.jpg Picture Gallery Hybrid Pedal Transportation.jpg Hybrid Pedal Transportation.jpg Starting with the physical description of the hybrid transporter, you’d be amazed that the designer has integrated it with the best traits of the three main transporting mediums availed on the road i.e. a car, a bicycle and a scooter. The chassis is designed similar to a car, but with two wheels in the front and only one at the rear. It embodies the lightness of a bicycle, and therefore will not consume huge amounts of energy for running around. Lastly, its dimensions are compact like that of a scooter, which allow you to swivel it around comfortably through congested alleys. Now talking about the technical aspects of the Pedal Transportation, as the name suggests it is a hybrid vehicle that works with a brushless motor, allowing it to advance on the road with the help of pedal assistance. Besides this, it also has a pivoting front, which imparts greater agility to the vehicle and is not a common feature among other similar mediums. Since it is a three wheeler the need for parking tripods too has been eliminated. Once out on the roads, the hybrid pedal transport will impress you with its sporty looks and relaxing ambiance. The addition of green technology makes it worthy of our modern times, when most of us our grappling to assimilate eco friendliness, efficiency and visual harmony. Via: Davidebonannidesign

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The Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education have teamed up to promote a new tool that makes it free and relatively easy for any education institution to report its environmental impacts.

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Sonia Renthlei: Green car concepts are ruling the roost these days with many individuals presenting their own visions of what an ideal eco friendly vehicle should look like. There’s a lot to be taken into consideration when dreaming up a truly green vehicle. You would have to factor in green energy, zero emissions and cost of production in terms of resources used. The result should be a car that’s reliable, cost-effective and low maintenance. Morphex Picture Gallery Morphex Skin -nickel-titanium (NiTi)-Shape memory alloy . A certain Romanian designer named lulian Vornicu has caught our interest with his unique car concept that can survive even in Arctic temperatures. Called Morphex, the concept vehicle was entered into the Alaska Motors Competition and though it didn’t bag any honors, it’s well worth mentioning. Morphex is a beast of a car. Powerful looking, its body is made from shape memory alloy, an alloy that recalls its shape. In the event of scratches or grazes to the vehicle, the alloy will get back to its original shape when heated. This saves customers a lot of money on trips to workshop as they don’t need to go for paint jobs unless the damage is extensive. Shedding the need for a windshield, Morphex instead relies on a Sonar Pulsar that can scan the environment and project what it sees into a holographic image. Since conventional windshields can be fragile in Arctic temperatures, the Sonar Pulsar takes over. Also it has a large cargo hold of 500 liters and can seat three people. Morphex will run on two engines and hydrogen fuel cells manufactured by Ballard Power Systems. Incidentally, hydrogen fuel cells are increasingly being seen as an alternative to lithium ion batteries as hydrogen is found in abundance unlike lithium. However, Vornicu has also incorporated 10 lithium ion batteries to boost the capability of Morphex. What’s unique is that the batteries won’t need to be recharged from a conventional power source as they get their energy from friction produced by the air and the NiTi skin. Wheels with caterpillar like tracks, filled with ferrofluid controlled by a magnetic skeleton, reduces friction which saves energy and enables the vehicle to run faster. If you’re wondering just how powerful the Morphex is, then you must know that it can hit an impressive top speed of 300 mph. This is made possible by the 1,400 hp it produces and a max rpm of 8,000. Pretty cool for something that needs to cross over vast stretches of snowy and icy terrain. lulian Vornicu’s skill isn’t limited to automobiles and he’s also come up with cool ideas for interior home designing plans for development projects like Palas Iasi for Romania’s mixed use development market. Via: Forge

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Vornicu’s Morphex is an Arctic beast to contend with