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← Older postsDutch Solar Bike Lane generates enough power to charge electric cars, power up homes!
November 30, 2015There’s often a complaint that solar panels are space consuming and accommodating them anywhere requires ample surface area. So why not use the roads? Those ever-expanding patches of open land that are exposed to the sun more often than other … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged "solar enegry", Bike, Home | Leave a commentDiogene, a 7.5 sq m micro-home with eco-friendly features
June 21, 2013Previously, he has been glorified for designing the tallest building in Europe, better known as London’s Shard. Italian architect Renzo Piano has done the opposite recently and has pulled the veil off this extremely tiny home, a project he has … Continue reading3
Posted in Other Stuff | Tagged Eco-Friendly, Home | Leave a commentDubai to play home to Emirates’ first sustainable building
August 21, 2012Dubai will soon play home to 340,000 square feet worth of pure green architecture, the first sustainable building to show up in the Emirates. Commissioned to be used by the water and civil division of the Dubai Electricity and Water … Continue reading3
Posted in Architecture | Tagged Dubai, Emirates, Home, Sustainable-Building | Leave a commentHome with old recycled computer parts for walls, by Marek Tomasik
June 16, 2011We’ve been waving the recycling flag since quite a while now, and we’ve just found yet another flag bearer for the same. A home made from old recycled junk, which at some part of its life was a technological breakthrough. … Continue reading3
Posted in Recycle | Tagged Computer_accessories, Home | Leave a commentPhilippe and Thao Jeanty’s dream home is self designed with Google
April 11, 2011You know just how successful a company is, when its name changes from a noun to a verb. Such was the case with search engine biggie, Google. Fairview based couple Philippe and Thao Jeanty have completely designed and constructed an … Continue reading3
Posted in Architecture | Tagged Home, Solar_Power | Leave a commentLuxury home chiseled out of recycled shipping containers by designer Debbie Glassberg
April 5, 2011Containers being turned into full-fledged homes aren’t so much of a magic trick any more. A short while ago, we came across containers being used as homes in disaster hit areas. This container-home isn’t just an emergency roof though. It … Continue reading3
Posted in Architecture | Tagged Container, Home | Leave a comment1970 Airstream Trailer recycled into a home and work space
March 7, 2011Trailer parks aren’t usually the most comfortable place to live in. Matthew Hoffman, a practicing architect from Santa Barbara, California, however proved this fact wrong. The architect took an old rundown 1970 Airstream trailer, sprinkled on a bit of magic … Continue reading3
Posted in Recycle | Tagged Home, Trailers | Leave a commentEco-Temporary Refuge is a green prefab home to live up in a mountain
February 21, 2011We’ve seen a quite a few portable homes before, like the recycled-steel made Homestead House. These homes are built to live off-grid, and are self-sustainable. No all of them can live up a snow clad mountain top though, the way … Continue reading3
Posted in Architecture | Tagged Home, Self-Sustainable | Leave a comment90-year-old home made from recycled newspapers stands the test in time
October 18, 2010Using recycled materials to build stuff isn’t the brainwave of the recent decades. That’s what we figured out after having excavated this 90-year old house made from recycled papers, that’s still standing strong. It hasn’t budged, shifted, caved in or … Continue reading3
Posted in Recycle | Tagged Home, Newspaper, Paper | Leave a commentClayton Homes lures eco-dwellers with new i-house 2.0
August 26, 2010Clayton Homes’ i-houses apparently didn’t hit it off well last year and hence the company is back with an upgraded version dubbed, i-house 2.0. This new “plug and play” dwelling spreads out over three bedrooms, two bathrooms and flexible indoor-outdoor … Continue reading3
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