NYC boasts of night clubs at almost every corner of the streets. So how does one more opening of a club in NYC make a difference? The owner Jon B has cashed on the latest fad of eco-friendly lifestyle to open the doors of the world’s first eco-friendly club. Located at 150 Varick St. in SoHo, Green House is the coolest green club where clubbers can party hard in a green style. The club will serve green liquor, the eco-friendly 360 Vodka, which is made in a green distillery and shipped in reusable bottles. Spread over 6,000-square-foot space and stretching up to two levels, this club is supported by walls made of sustainable bamboo. While the whole of the club is powered by 100 percent wind-powered along with the sound system, the green set up is lit up by LED light bulbs.
E-waste heaps are rising sky-high and daunting our environment by releasing toxins in the air. An estimated 133,000 computers are discarded by homes and businesses every day in America! To tackle this menace of reckless e-waste dumping, a 16 foot tall and 60 foot long man-made monster is set up in Islandia, N.Y. This mammothic shredder at e-Scrap Destruction chews on to all the cast off computers and its peripherals, printers, fax machines and also cell phones with its steel blade jaws. The components are reduced to rubble that contains pieces lesser than four inches. This shredded material goes back on the belt, where an overhead electromagnet removes material containing iron as the waste moves along. Trace Feinstein, the founder of e-Scrap Destruction was determined to handle the scrap more responsibly. The folks at e-Scrap also respect customers’ privacy and ensure that no personal or confidential data can be recovered from hard drives or memory.
Aircraft emissions have been estimated as the prime source for the escalated CO2 levels in the air. But that cannot stop people from traveling across states and countries for business as well as pleasure. However we can look forward to reduce our carbon footprints in the air by flying on jets powered by green fuels. Recently, Green Flight International flew BioJet 1 across the U.S. by filling its tank with an eco-friendly, Biofuel. This green jet completed the flight from Reno, Nevada to Leesburg, Florida in just over 11 hours at altitudes ranging from 13,000 to 17,000 feet.
Green waves are coming from Middle East as Sharjah is moving ahead with its eco-friendly waste treatment plant. Leading master developer SNASCO, has teamed up with prime utility service provider, the Sewage Treatment Plan Company (STP), to put up this green waste treatment unit for the colossal Sharjah Investment Centre (SIC) project. This sewage treatment plant is meant to deliver reclaimed water for non-potable utilization, such as providing an alternative supply for cooling and irrigation works to centre. In an attempt to guarantee superlative ‘green’ services for development, the SIC sewage treatment plant aligns itself with the regional developer’s aims of ensuing sustainable development.
Every geek and blogger can also be labeled as an irresponsible human in the eco world due to the criminal wastage of energy while their PC is on a standby mode. As most of us believe that by simply switching to stand by mode we are saving on our energy consumption and electricity bills too. However Hong Kong firm, TrickleStar, has come up with the world’s first power-saving device. Well the company claims so but folks on Everything USB assert some other company has already presented such a green gadget. Anyways, it doesn’t matter who came first as long as the device can help us to reduce our electricity bills. The TrickleStar PC Standby Power Saver can reduce the burden on our monthly budget by as much as 12%. Roll over to understand how this green gadget functions.
Most people excuse themselves from their responsibility towards our planet by believing that one person’s deed cannot change the world. I am annoyed by such a callous attitude and certainly believe in Mother Theresa’s words – “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. And Louis Palmer from a town Lucerne, in Switzerland, too holds the same thought. Since the young age of fourteen, Louis has been nursing this dream of being the first person to travel across the globe in a solar powered vehicle. Last year, 3 July 2007, he managed to materialize his dream and set off in his solar taxi. Since he didn’t come across any such commercial vehicle in the market, the guy built his own version to fulfill his dream and make a point to the world. Fitted with highly efficient solar cells and its ZEBRA High-Energy Battery, the Solar taxi hits the road powered in broad daylight.
Many of us would love to swap our current dependence on the electric girds with the free solar energy. However the cost to set up a system big enough to power a whole house with sun’s energy is daunting and cripples the idea of getting liberated. But when the government steps in to assist such a cause, the citizens can boast of solar powered dens without much economical fuss. Located in midst of strawberry fields, one of Japan’s sunniest spots, Ota City’s tiny Pal Town received free solar panels from 2002. The government sanctioned a 9.7 billion yen for a study on how to ensure a steady supply and avoid blackouts. Dubbed as Solar City, about three-quarters of this town’s homes are covered by solar panels.
Sine water conservation has become as essential as energy conservation; we can see an upsurge in gadgets that help us to keep a tab on the volume of water used while soaking under the shower. Designer Jia Yi Lin has conceptualized an exceptional product, dubbed Liquid Tree, to present the real data of water waste. Users can interact with the Liquid Tree display, and receive the feedback from it. Inspired by Brendan Dawes’s Book “Analog in, digital out: Brendan Dawes on interaction design”, and the art of ink bleeding on the paper, Jia was also inspired by form of iPod to shape up this water saving device. As of yet, it is designed to measure the hot water wastage only. However in the future, it can be tweaked to measure cold water too.
Times are changing and so are the trends. Moving over the two and four-wheelers, the future of the roads is going to be dominated by three-wheelers. Though we don’t see many of them in the present, companies like Piaggio promise a clean green three wheely ride in the near future with their latest plug-in hybrid three-wheeler. The Italian manufacture’s hybrid MP3 scooter will churn out up to 141 mpg (that is 60 kilometers on a liter of gas). Powered by a 125-cc gasoline engine along with an electric motor, it is powerful enough to zoom from 0-60 mph in about 5 seconds.
The used, empty soda cans in my house find their straight into the dustbin. However sometimes I save up one or two for my toddler’s ‘Best out of Waste’ project. She loves to decorate such cans into pen stands or comb stands with all the craft material. Pushing aside such kindergarten-aged recycling attempts, Designer Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch has moved up further to shape a set of adult lingerie from recycled soda cans. Inspired from a very young age to do something green, Ingrid presented the most unusual eco-friendly set of underclothes for a eco-diva. If filthy rich women can display their wealth by flaunting gold and diamond studded under garments, then eco-conscious babes can stand up to flaunt their love for our environment with such a recycled set. I am sure such a green set of underwear isn’t actually wearable. But the red and silver combi certainly kicks out a hot and bold ‘green’ style!
