Rohit Jain: In light of aggravating environmental degradation, eco friendly products are gaining immense popularity. There’s a plethora of green ideas available from toys for children to exquisite serving ware, and furniture for elderly. Reclaimed timber is one such material that is being used increasingly for making various creative products. These products are unique, eco friendly as well as durable

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Ishan Sidhu: We all are fond of street dining but growing population and limited space have made cities overcrowded. Whether it’s a mall or a park, it becomes really hard to find a seating place in primary hours of the day. With the green design named “Truck Stop”, Rux Architects have tried to overcome this problem by installing sustainable furniture at Edgar Plaza, NYC. This flexible furniture will be completely eco friendly with temporary, low cost and reusable installation. Truck Stop by Rux Picture Gallery Truck Stop by Rux The furniture choreographs a streamlined dining experience at pique morning and afternoon hours. The furniture will be crafted using bamboo with considerable space in serpent like shape to accommodate food trucks. This unique shape will divide Edgar Plaza into zones, serving different purpose like seating, waiting and pedestrian crossing. The street vendors can take their desired spots and serve people with delicious food and comfortable seating. It will also make dining experience enjoyable during morning and afternoon rush hours when finding proper food with adequate seating place becomes a struggle. Apart from being green, the furniture presents iconic style as well. The stylish lighting system offers an attractive and safe environment that creates an inviting ambiance.Via: Rux Design

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Truck Stop to revitalize urban space with green furniture

Garima Goel: With the rising environmental awareness, people nowadays are looking for different ways to reduce their ecological footprint. One good way to do the same is by opting for eco friendly gifts. Considering the uncountable number of gifts exchanged around the world every year, one can easily think of the huge impact it could make. Whether you are looking for a perfect gift for your special someone, your family or friends, you can easily find a great green gift online, which will not only impress the other person, but also make a positive difference to the environment.

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Jaspreet Kaur Walia: Recycling is being embraced like never before in this modern era. The ever increasing waste piles are a threat to the environment and designers are coming up with smart ideas to give a new lease of life to thrown away materials. A lot of glass, in the form of bottles, is dumped each year. How about turning this thrash glass into more useful products like a kitchen countertop? These recycled glass countertops are a perfect replacement for granite and natural stone. These come smothered with eco friendliness and will create a stunning focal point your kitchen.

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Christina Pinto: Farmers depend on crops for their livelihood. An infestation of insects or bugs can threaten the stability of their business, often leading to financial ruin. Israeli agriculture scientist, Samule Gan-Mor has created a solution to end farmer’s natural woes. A mixture of readily found household items has produced the perfect pesticide, a combination of edible canola or rapeseed oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil and the slightly expensive olive oil. Cooking oil – the perfect pesticide The seeds from which the oils are derived contain certain ingredients that cause blockage in the breathing pathways of invertebrates and hinder their mobility. Thus, Gan-Mor was encouraged to develop this oil solution. The government sanctioned Volcani Institute in Beit Dagan for working and improving industrial sprayers to increase their coverage of plant area with lesser pesticide. Israeli companies Raz Spayers and Degania Sprayers are now selling such sprayers worldwide. The product is being marketed as an organic alternative and includes the advanced sprayer, the oil emulsion and emulsifier. The new product can be used swiftly after harvest, unlike chemical pesticides that require a waiting period between application and harvesting. This is to take into account the health risks to the environment and people. Oil based pest control is far superior to chemical pesticides as it has no health hazards, it is easy to produce and is inexpensive, not to mention it is safer and can be stored for specified periods of time. Some pesticides have been known to disrupt hormone balance, cause cancer and perpetuate neurotoxins. Hence, earth friendly products are high in demand. The Volcani Institue, Ministry of Agriculture Research Organization along with a company called Shelef, made plans to test these oil formulations at 20 different farms in Israel. Shelef is investing in more research to create oil based formulations that match specific crops and conditions. Meanwhile, the company has already begun selling the complete oil functioning systems to interested farmers. Via: Israel21c

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Cooking oil designed to be a perfect pesticide

Babita Sajnani: Green is the way to go and now you can look for ‘greener times ahead’ by sporting an eco friendly and green watch. You no longer need to worry about your battery weakening, as you can power them with solar energy. Batteries keep getting disposed in the most inappropriate manner and eventually end up overspilling landfills. You can show your responsibility toward the environment by buying yourself a battery free watch. Not only are these solar powered watches eco friendly, they are visually cool too.

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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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Rahul Gupta: Designer Bukowska Arkitekter from Stockholm, Sweden came up with the project idea of Marine Biology Field Station. The main objective behind the project was to build a power station that would be self sustaining. Also the designer intends to use it for two purposes simultaneously i.e. as a field station for producing energy and, secondly, he wants to make it an information and learning center for future use. Marine Biology Field Station Picture Gallery Marine Biology Field Station Marine Biology Field Station Researching the needs of algae and how it would influence the spatial organization of the structure would determine the value of the entire process. Algae requires abundant water, carbon dioxide, minerals and light for its growth. Sunlight should neither be too strong or weak. Algae have a tendency to grow and become dense and, when this happens, sunlight does not penetrate beyond 8cm. Circulating the algae would prevent it from remaining on the surface. There are two methods for growing algae, an open system and a closed system. When algae are grown in translucent photo bioreactors, with some kind of lightning source, it is referred to as closed system. The designer explains that this is a controlled process and all visitors will be excluded. In case of open system the algae is allowed to grow in open ponds, which expose it to natural elements. It is a relatively cheaper process, but you cannot trust its vulnerability. In conclusion, the designer decided to use a variation of open systems as a solution to this problem. Direct sunlight is not so good for algae so he enclosed the open ponds within underground barriers, which would pump algae out into the skin of the building, allowing proper management of sunlight exposure. This process will also help onlookers who seek to learn from the project as they can look from outside through the transparent fence and also they will get to see the columns of algae when it will change its appearance from transparent to an intense green mass. And finally the whole process would operate in cycles, extracting excess algae and turning it into bio fuel, which would help sustain the building with energy. Via: Cargocollective

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Marine Biology Field Station: A self sustaining power station

Ishan Sidhu: Solar power is one of the greenest sources of energy. We have seen solar powered gadgets, cars, houses etc. but this concept by Matteo Straforini is a solar powered info point where you can get information about a city. It is an urban design to make easy and ergonomic consulting. The solar panels are installed on the sail of the structure and it can rotate, following the sun’s inclination completing a rotation of 180°, just like a sunflower. A touch screen on the dashboard allows the user to access the menu, which contains different categories for browsing. Urban landscape Picture Gallery Urban landscape It can rotate following the sun rays inclinations to optimize the energy produced. The unique shape of the info point and its astounding ability to follow the motion of the sun are added advantages. Firstly, its ability to rotate will increase the energy efficiency of the photovoltaic panels as they will receive the sun rays throughout the day at correct inclinations. Secondly, the user and touch screen will always be under shade due to its unique shape. Since this info station is completely self sufficient it can be installed in any part of the city where it can regularly juice up using sunlight. Via: Matteostraforini

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