Luminous LED Pots Will Make You See Planters in a New Light
Bored to tears by run-of-the-mill, non-glowing plant pots (so very 2009)? Then feast your eyes on these babies. Illuminated by LED lights, these luminescent planters from Rotoluxe are translucent, giving your ferns and ficuses a most ethereal-looking receptacle to reside in.
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Luminous LED Pots Will Make You See Planters in a New Light
Organoclays Could Create Next-Gen Eco Plastics
Clay : it’s good for more than just pottery. A report in the American Chemical Society’s Macromolecules journal claims that natural clay could be used to produce a cheap, flame-retardant substance that might one day replace the main compound used in plastic nanocomposites.
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Sleek Solar Delta Yacht Travels the Seas in Style
July 26, 2010 by
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Sleek, white luxury yachts are so 20th century — today seafarers are looking for something a little different. Enter the Delta yacht, designed by Liviu Tudoran
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LIFE BOX – Brilliant, Seed-Sprouting Cardboard Packaging!
If you ever engage in online shopping (or even if you don’t), you probably recognize how ubiquitous and space-cluttering cardboard packaging is. But what if every cardboard box you got from Amazon came embedded with tiny seeds – so that you could plant your cardboard boxes in your backyard and sprout some CO2 sucking greenery? How awesome would that be
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Lumboo: Dimensional Lumber Made from Bamboo
Green designers are well aware that bamboo is a rapidly-renewable resource whose production has less of an environmental impact than the production of other wood products. Bamboo flooring is well-trod territory now, and bamboo panels are becoming increasingly prevalent, as well
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The Best of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial
June 24, 2010 by
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Read the rest of The Best of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cooper Hewitt , cooper hewitt design triennial , design triennial , green innovation , innovations for the modern world , Sustainable Innovation , why design now
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Eco Friendly Whiteboard Paint Turns Any Wall Into an Artistic Canvas
Turn any blank wall or smooth surface into a white board thanks to Idea Paint ’s new line of Tabrasa water based paint! The paint was on display at MDC Wallcovering ’s booth at this year’s NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago. The water-based paint only requires a single coat application, comes in five different colors, and has a 10 year warranty. The paint was designed for a number of environments including offices, schools, meeting centers, and hospitals, but we’re personally excited about its applications at home! + Tabrasa Dry-Erase Paint + NeoCon 2010 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: green interiors , green materials , inhabitat , Marker Board , neocon , sustainable building materials , Sustainable Interiors , Sustainable Paint , White Board
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Breakthrough Stealth Toilet Cuts Water Use Nearly in Half
Toilet technology is one of the most underappreciated yet important aspects of green building. Niagara Conservation ’s revolutionary Stealth Toilet features a vacuum assist that steeply reduces the water it takes to do your business – it uses only 0.8 gallons per flush compared to the EPA maximum of 1.6 gallons.
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The Green Book: World’s Lightest E-Reader Unveiled
June 8, 2010 by
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Want an e-reader that’s lighter, smaller, and more streamlined than either the iPad or the Kindle? You can have one — if you speak Chinese
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Sticky Rice is 1,500 Year Old Secret to Super-Strong Chinese Buildings
Photo by Bridgette Meinhold Sticky rice, which has been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries, also played a huge role in the construction of their ultra-durable cities and walls. The glutinous side dish has been used since the Ming Dynasty to create a super-strong mortar that has helped keep ancient buildings intact and resisted earthquakes .
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