Lifetent: A Portable Emergency Shelter That Folds Into a Backpack

Core77 ’s latest 1 Hour Design Challenge asked designers to create solutions for pop up emergency shelters to aid those afflicted by a natural disaster such as the Haiti earthquake . Winners were just announced , and Dan Ostrowski took home the honor with his Lifetent, a portable shelter packed into a backpack that also can carry a water supply

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Lifetent: A Portable Emergency Shelter That Folds Into a Backpack

Lifetent: A Portable Emergency Shelter That Folds Into a Backpack

Core77 ’s latest 1 Hour Design Challenge asked designers to create solutions for pop up emergency shelters to aid those afflicted by a natural disaster such as the Haiti earthquake .

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Lifetent: A Portable Emergency Shelter That Folds Into a Backpack

NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space

While everyone else is commuting home from work today, a NASA rocket will be making another, longer, trip–taking the agency’s newest weather satellite into space ! After the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) journeys to its orbit 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will use the data it gathers to support scientists’ work. Though satellites have been around for a while, newer satellite technology like this will undoubtedly play more of a role as climate change alters environmental conditions

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NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space

NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space

While everyone else is commuting home from work today, a NASA rocket will be making another, longer, trip–taking the agency’s newest weather satellite into space ! After the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) journeys to its orbit 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will use the data it gathers to support scientists’ work. Though satellites have been around for a while, newer satellite technology like this will undoubtedly play more of a role as climate change alters environmental conditions. Read the rest of NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: climate change and storms , climate change and weather , Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite , GOES-15 , GOES-P , nasa , NASA launches new satellite , NOAA , satellites

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Amazing House Built From 6 Million Beer Bottles

If you read Inhabitat, chances are you’re a pretty avid recycler – but we’re pretty sure that you’re no match for Tito Ingenieri , who takes his recycling a bit further than your average sorting between paper, glass and plastic. He’s spent the last 19 years building a giant house in Quilmes, Buenos Aires out of over 6 million beer bottles! We can only hope he had a frat house nearby to help him source materials. Read the rest of Amazing House Built From 6 Million Beer Bottles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bottle house , Eco Architecture , eco design , green architecture , green design , house made of 6 million bottles , quilmes , recycled bottle house , sustainable design , tito ingeniero

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Amazing House Built From 6 Million Beer Bottles

If you read Inhabitat, chances are you’re a pretty avid recycler – but we’re pretty sure that you’re no match for Tito Ingenieri , who takes his recycling a bit further than your average sorting between paper, glass and plastic. He’s spent the last 19 years building a giant house in Quilmes, Buenos Aires out of over 6 million beer bottles! We can only hope he had a frat house nearby to help him source materials. Read the rest of Amazing House Built From 6 Million Beer Bottles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bottle house , Eco Architecture , eco design , green architecture , green design , house made of 6 million bottles , quilmes , recycled bottle house , sustainable design , tito ingeniero

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