At times, living green can have the simplest meaning and tremendous effects. You don’t necessarily need to have photovoltaic or wind turbines installed in order to enjoy the power of nature. Sometimes just living around green makes your life happier. This common knowledge is now supported by scientific evidence. A new study carried out over [...]
About Itai Lahat
Itai Lahat is an israeli journalist located in Berlin. He is covering among other things subjects like the green revolution, science, technology, art, design, and the fusion of all these subjects. At his free time he deals with projects of art & poetry and technology, besides being a father of two.
A new approach to wind energy
One company from the United States is about to throw a serious game changer to the clean-energy industry. Its new wind turbine produces 600% more power than conventional wind turbines with a new design that uses funnels to channel wind to the ground. Meet SheerWind’s INVELOX wind turbine. It will revolutionize not only the wind [...]
The Energy Groove: using the power of dance to create electricity
What with all of the cocktails, pick-up lines and seductive dancing, a nightclub might be low on the list of places associated with environmental sustainability. But what if with every two-step you took, you were helping to cut carbon emmissions? That was the goal for Temple Nightclub’s founder Paul Hemming. The San Francisco-based club opened [...]
Earth to Earth: making furniture from the ground beneath your feet
‘Rammed Earth’ is usually a technique used for building homes, but Israeli designer Adital Ela has extended its use to create something else. These Terra Stools are made from earth and natural fibers in a unique compression process that was re-developed as part of a longterm study of materials and ancient building methods. Ela is the [...]
Building a New European City
We’ve already positively reviewed a project by the innovative Danish architecture firm BIG. This week the company has won an international design competition for a new green-roofed-metropolis, currently under construction in the suburbs of Paris. Europa City is a massive sustainable project topped off with a huge park that will combine the urban density of Paris with the settings of the [...]
Green Algae: Can it Really Fuel Your House?
If you are visiting the IBA Hamburg next week, you don’t want to miss the world’s first algae-powered building, dubbed the BIQ House. International design firm Arup partnered with both Germany’s Strategic Science Consultants and Austria-based Splitterwerk Architects to develop the BIQ House, which will launch at the International Building Exhibition (IBA). The facade of the building features a series of [...]
Will this kill the hybrid-electric car?
For the past 5 years, in a secretive laboratory, car manufacturer Peugeot has been developing its next line of cars – well more like its new main line of engines. Finally, last month the French manufacturer unveiled its secrets to the world – the first ever hybrid gasoline/compressed-air vehicle. The new engine is a combined, [...]
Is this the material of the future?
Producing clean energy and purifying water; these are the two main challenges that human life is posing to the world. Neither are easy or cheap tasks with today’s technologies, but what if there was an inexpensive, abundant material that could achieve both? What if that same cheap material went even further, and could produce hydrogen gas for [...]
Waste-to-energy plant becomes a ski resort
The Danish architect firm BIG is without a doubt one of the creative agencies in the world today. In the outskirts of Copenhagen they have built a huge B shaped building that acts like a mountain allowing all its inhabitants to enjoy small gardens and the view. In another project they built the Danish pavilion in [...]
Efficiency über Alles
Some say it is too ugly to drive, others think it’s a beauty waiting to be shown to the world. Ugly or not, the new Volkswagen XL1 is going to be the most fuel efficient car in the world. And now, the car manufacturer has confirmed that this concept car has serious production plans. So [...]
Mr. Ghost comes to hunt your iPhone
The world is drowning in electromagnetic fields (EMF). In the last 20 years, there has been an explosion, a million times fold in the electromagnetic fields surrounding us all. And the debate about their effect on our health has only just begun. However, in 205 Draper et al. found a 70% increase in childhood leukemia [...]
Aquaponics for all
Here’s another one for all of you interested in the “grow your own food” movement which is growing rapidly around the globe. These two great guys, Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora, who founded “Back to the Roots”, a company that sells grow-your-own-oyster-mushrooms-kits, are at it again. This time they are finally presenting a product long [...]
