Eco Friendly Guide

The stormy rainy season leaves countless umbrellas in a dilapidated condition each year, increasing the load on the landfills by a few more tons. Diverting a decent amount of waste from the landfills and encouraging people to take up recycling is a…

Every day we waste a large amount of water for daily activities like showers and toilet flushing. So, wouldn’t it be great to have a device that drastically reduces the quantity of wasted water? The Toauh Shower is a system that can be fitted into..

Bringing environmental issues to the fore using art a group of volunteers under Angela Haseltine Pozzi, artist and Executive Director of Artula Institute have tried to put the problem of plastic pollution in perspective. Working under a project called..

After enjoying a lavish lip-smacking meal, doing the dishes is the last thing anyone would want to do. What if you had something that would do the cleaning act for you? Well, the Pure Washer – Eco Automatic Sink promises just that. Brainchild of…

We have already seen sustainable skyscrapers behaving as a contemporary housing for the urbanites, but now it’s beautiful birds and animals turn. Designers Hila Davidpu, Tal Gazit, Eli Gotman, and Hofi Harari have proposed a green tower for the…

After a heated six-hour meeting, Wilkinson Eyre’s controversial Tesco development for Sheringham in Norfolk has finally won planning permission. Defeating its rivals the Norwich-based LSI Architects, who proposed a Waitrose-led eco supermarket…

Imagine powering your Lego Mindstorms NXT robot using nothing but the sun. Well, a new solar panel from Dexter Industries promises just that. The dSolar System includes one 9V solar panel, providing approximately 250mA, enough to power the NXT and a..

Originally developed as a competition entry for the Athens Olympics, The Tower of Winds is a sort of mobile tower for cleansing urban polluted air. The massive cooling tower, conceived by Working Architecture Group in conjunction with engineers…

‘I always resented the daily waste of newspapers after people read them for a few minutes’. This was what went through a Swedish immigrant Ellis Stenman’s mind around 90 years the moment he saw newspapers heading for bins once the reader had…

Nearly five months ago, we ripped veils off the IT focused, non-profit Computer Aid International’s plan of installing a new solar-powered, shipping container based Internet café in Kenya. The cyber café has now started operating in Nairobi….