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Sleek Solar-Powered Camper Elevates Off-Grid Living
Most forms of transportation (think: planes, trains, and automobiles) demand large amounts of dirty fossil fuels, and most travel destinations (think: hotels, resorts, and theme parks) usually leave behind a mountain of waste in their wake. The answer? Take your sustainability on the road.
Hope Floats For Villagers Who Fear Rising Sea Levels
Building levees and canals requires money, infrastructure, and materials these countries don’t have access to, but rising above the increasing water line could be achieved effortlessly if we chance our thinking about what houses and communities look like.
3 Green Shoe Designs That’ll Knock Your Socks Off!
These days, even footwear is getting are green makeover, meaning you can have big style and a tiny (carbon) footprint.
3 Green Tech Designs That Could Change The World
Voting is open for TechBrief’s Create the Future Design Contest 2010, and CrispGreen has scoured the entries and picked the three most innovative designs.
Solar-Powered Plane Flies Through The Night!
Using lithium batteries that store a charge from the 11,000-plus solar cells on the craft, the plane was able to complete it’s flight without the sun.
The Light Bulb, Squared: Illumitex Reveals New LED (Video)
A startup out of Austin, Texas, has devised a square LED bulb that it claims will both cut the cost and improve the quantity and quality of light coming from solid state lamps and ceiling fixtures.
Amazing Video of ‘Private Library’ Writing Studio
When architect Andrew Berman was hired to design a writing studio in the woods of Long Island, New York, he was asked by his client to create a workspace where the writer could get simplicity, peace and quiet. He succeeded in doing that, don’t you think? (Directed & Produced by David Vegezzi)
Engineering a Disolvable Wedding Dress
In an attempt to challenge wasteful “Throwaway Fashion,” fashion and engineering students at the UK’s Sheffield Hallam University joined forces and took on an iconic one-time wear garment, the Wedding Dress. By marrying fashion design and technology they were able to create a wedding dress that will dissolve in water to create 5 new garments [...]
The People's Bike: The Trek Lime
With its big, comfortable spring-loaded seat, curved, adjustable handlebars, three-speed automatic transmission and pedal brakes, the Trek Lime is designed to make riding a bike as enjoyable today as it was when you were a kid.
The Sportiest (and Greenest) Camper Ever: The SylvanSport GO
The GO camper from North Carolina-based SylvanSport is nothing like your parents’ fifth-wheel.
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