Monthly Archives: August 2010
2010 is likely to be the warmest year on record
According to scientists July 2010 is what global warming “looks like”. If you check out the last global map of surface temperature anomalies (which is attached to this post), relative to the average July in the 1951-1980 period of climatology [...]
Zero race
Four teams are competing in a race around the world in 80 days as we speak. The fabulous thing about this race is that the teams are actually racing in vehicles powered by electricity from renewable energy, hence the name [...]
World Tap Water Week
A special week has been selected by Green Thing to be the annual World Tap Water Week. From this year on, on the third week of August we will be celebrating how great our pure, simple tap water is. The [...]
A full self-sufficient institute in Costa Rica
This house is located on the Peninsula de Osa (Costa Rica), a place where the 5% of the world biodiversity is embodied. Probably is the best location for the new ISEAMI Institute headquarters, a center devoted to the investigation of [...]
NYC residents find out how much water they use
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”, this is the key point for being efficient in the use of any resource. This applies to the water use too. Traditionally, consumers receive monthly or quarterly water bills, long after [...]
Edible Walls
A technology that has been around for many years already is only starting to flourish nowadays. Lush plant-covered walls are being grown with more frequency each day. These vertical gardens started off as a resource for people without gardens to [...]
A new mushroom-based biopackaging is growing
We bet you didn’t know that packaging could be grown. We didn’t know it either. The mates from Ecovative Design are responsible of that. They got a new packaging material, EcoCradle™, made of mushroom roots and agricultural waste that lowers [...]
How to play soccer on a volcano
Probably this new Mexican volcano-like soccer stadium is going to host hot games. The city of Guadalajara is unveiling his renewed estadio Chivas, created by French architects Jean-Marie Massaud and Daniel Pouzet, of studio massaud, a stadium designed to resemble [...]
Pumped Hydro: a new way for an island to be green
Among the different ways to store energy, pumped hydro probably it is not the most known, but it is real and in use around the world. Basically pumped hydro works as a good complement of wind and solar energy, allowing [...]
Fuller Wind Turbine
The Fuller Wind Turbine was developed about 5 years ago with an investment of £215,000. It harnesses the viscosity of air over the rims of thin discs to generate energy. This way, a housing is able to swivel in a [...]
Zephyr, an unmanned solar-powered plane
We have already told you about the Solar Impulse, the first solar plane able to flight at night. Now we want to introduce you an even more amazing project: an unmanned solar-powered plane. It is called Zephyr: a super-lightweight, carbon-fiber [...]
Project Firefly: the all-electric helicopter can fly for 15 minutes
You may have wondered why electric plains were built but never an electric helicopter. The truth is it has been a concept that has been studied for years, but never applied. Until now. The main reasons it took so long [...]
