Thursday, October 28, 2010

Some practical green ideas...

Exercise and earn free food...
Hotel offers free meal to guests who are willing to generate electricity:

The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).

Exercise and charge your phone...
Designer creates an iPhone charger powered by a hand grip:

A green idea that gives you a great hand workout as well. Charge your iPhone by a hand grip! This concept is called You can work it out, designed by Mac Funamizu.

For those who spend too much time in the shower...
Designer creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water:

20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water.

Taking it further, out of necessity and to instill good green habits among students...
University constructs a green roof as a gathering place:
Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art , Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore . This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.
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1 comment:

  1. Great ideas.
    Regards
    Manfred NĂ¼scheler Swiss record-breaker
    http://www.goldsprint.com/2010/10/17/manfred-nuscheler-swiss-record-breaker/

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