Tag Archives: Greenhouse
The EcoQube Air is the littlest and most effective greenhouse for your home
April 6, 2016Growing pants indoors isn’t a walk in the park. Unless of course, you have an incredible green thumb, you couldn’t really ensure the finer aspects of horticulture as you would in a greenhouse. So, why not get a greenhouse home? … Continue reading3
Leave a commentSingapore’s Gardens By The Bay – The World’s Largest Climate Controlled Greenhouse
January 18, 2013Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay opened in the summer of 2012 and was quickly recognised for its innovative design. Awarded World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival 2012 and best display buildings for the Cloud Forest and … Continue reading3
Leave a commentWorld’s largest greenhouse in Cornwall, the Eden Project is truly green
February 14, 2011If you’ve been around Cornwall in the United Kingdom lately, you might have come across some massive bubbles, and if you really haven’t figured out what they really are, you’ve just had a look at the world’s largest greenhouse! Designed … Continue reading3
Leave a commentA swimming pool converted into a solar powered food-producing-greenhouse
August 19, 2010This family sure isn’t having any happy times by their pools side. They prefer using it for something green instead! Living in Mesa, Arizona, the family of four has converted an old swimming pool in their backyard into a greenhouse, … Continue reading3
Leave a commentUrban Space Stations, farming pods for building-top greenhouses
June 10, 2010At first, this one sure seems to resemble a giant maggot asleep on a building top. It’s much more than a colossal worm though. These are farming pods, an answer to roof-top farming, by artist and scientist Natalie Jeremijenko. The … Continue reading3
Leave a commentItalian greenhouse produces food and electricity too
May 3, 2010A greenhouse producing food as well as electricity is what the renewable energy company Solar ReFeel and Solyndra together cam up with. Using an integrated photovoltaic system, the greenhouse building will produce electricity. Tests are currently being carried out at … Continue reading3
Leave a commentManmade emission-Black Carbon may be responsible for Himalayan melt!
December 16, 2009The beautiful and massive Himalayas that spread across 1,550 miles through Asia harbor 10,000 glaciers. These majestic rivers of ice hold the third largest amount of fresh water on earth, and are source of water for the hundreds of rivulets … Continue reading3
Leave a commentCopenhagen summit’s greenhouse emission is equal to that of an African country!
December 8, 2009It may sound surprising and ironical but according to estimates by the United Nations, this years climate change talks in Copenhagen will result in the production of carbon dioxide that equals that produced by an African country! The 12 day … Continue reading3
Leave a commentNew York’s eco-friendly Greenhouse Nightclub to party in a green style
March 16, 2009Now here’s news for those environmentalists who have stopped partying cause the atmosphere has nothing eco-friendly in it. Antonio Di Oronzo, principal of bluarch architecture, has designed the Greenhouse Nightclub in New York City. It will be the first LEED … Continue reading3
Leave a commentEco-partying at Greenhouse- Worlds First Eco-Friendly Night Club
November 14, 2008NYC 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 … Continue reading3
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