Eco-friendly
Sony’s Eco Activities or How Technology Can Be Part of The Solution to Climate Change [Interview]
Last week we got some time with Emily Young, General Manager for Sony Europe, Eco Communications, regarding Sony's eco activities in 2009 and its plans for 2010. We wanted to know what Sony thinks about the future of our planet and what green means to them. Check it out below.
Eco Fashion: The One Where Roadkill is Style
Here's how the story goes; people like wearing fur, they kill animals/ get animals killed so they can wear fur, and when not doing that they are killing animals with their impressive driving skills. Okay, the last one is mostly due to accident rather than intent, but still, many animals breathe their last on the road. James Faulkner sees the ...
A San Francisco Freeway Transforms Into a Farm
Seoul's move of reclaiming its old stream from a freeway and converting the same into an urban garden gathered a lot of applause, and it seems San Francisco is on a similar route, or more appropriately, a freeway. A number of the city's freeways were left structurally unsound after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the teardown of such structures ...
Detroit Plans to Downsize, Add Farms
Detroit is no more the industrial city it once was, and there can be no better proof than thousands of empty houses that litter the city. The city has over 33,000 empty houses and 90,000 vacant residential lots. As is clearly visible, those are huge numbers, and the city now plans to use such abandoned properties to create an urban ...
Diamond Lil Restaurant Roams Around, Stays Green
The Diamond Lil is a restaurant that comes to you rather than having you going to the restaurant. Created by restaurateur Kai Schoenhals, the restaurant is a 1957 GMC Greyhound bus that was salvaged and its fate turned around from rotting to becoming an eatery on wheels. Schoenhals, along with his partner Daniel Isberg thought that a little inspiration from ...
Seoul Shows the way, Removes Freeway to make way for Stream
It is common for growing ciites to destroy or remove, or at least, subdue any natural element that would come in its path of "development." This is more or less true for every single city in the world, even Seoul. The only reason we single out Seoul here is because it has recently taken a commendable step, that of reclaiming ...
Nanofiber Lamps show up to Heat the Lighting Wars
Incandescent bulbs have been in widespread use for as long as one can remember, without reaching the age of candles that is. Now, as the world becomes more aware of the environment, these low efficiency bulbs are on their way out; on an average, incandescent bulbs convert a mere 10% of the energy they use into light, the rest is ...
French Town Heats Pools With Sewage
The town of Levallois-Perret, near Paris in France has come up with a new way to heat water in pools; they use heat from sewage to do that. Sewage in the town's pipes averages to a temperature of nearly 68 Fahrenheit, and Sophie Deschiens, the town's Environment Councilwoman thought it was a bad idea to let all that go waste. ...
New Coding Could Boost Internet Energy Efficiency by 99 Percent
A huge amount of energy is required to keep telecommunication equipment, and by definition the internet running. Right now, it would be very difficult, if not impossible to actually replace the equipment currently in use, because of the prohibitive costs involved, and the huge amount of investment already made to setup the said equipment. Researchers at Bell Labs however, seem ...
Jeweler Creates Rings Embedded With Live Plants
The ring collection from Jeweler Hafsteinn Juliusson wouldn't quite qualify as eco-friendly, but it does come across as a great way to spread the green message. Rings in the jeweler/ designers collection come with a stainless steel base, but have the biggest jewel of them all, nature embedded at the top. These rings have Icelandic moss plants as their crowning ...
