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The Live Screen – Vertical Hydroponic Garden
Vertical hydroponic gardens add style and nature to your interior decor. Designed by the Brooklyn based designer Danielle Trofe, the Live Screen is a vertical, self-sustaining planter system.
Source: Danielle Trofe
Kebony’s Sustainable Glowing Kreod Pavilion
This dome shaped architectural sculpture was created by the Kebony, a long time advocate and distributor of environmentally friendly wood. This forward thinking construction was made from Kebony’s Southern Yellow Pine. In hopes to bring awareness to consumers and designers that sustainable and eco-friendly constructions do exist and they can look good. The Kreod pavilion takes into consideration the environment as well as the intimate life cycle of the design.
Source: Kebony
Glowing Plant Kickstarter Project: Can plants replace street lighting?
Street lighting is like a silent energy drain that no one pays attention to except when they are not lit. Street lighting costs the United States and other countries billions a year in maintenance, replacement of old bulbs costs and the energy to run them through the night. Without them our streets could become unfriendly and a place where accidents triumph.
Source: Kickstarter
The GravityLight Generates 30 Minutes of Light in 3 Seconds
The GravityLight was created in an effort to wean Africa and other countries off of the use of unsafe and inefficient fuels like kerosene. In a project that has taken more than 5 years to perfect, this gravity powered light uses plastic gears, a low cost generator and bags for the counter weight. Magically these components all work together to provide a light that operates free of charge.
Source: Indiegogo
Saving Kenya with 1000 MwangaBora Solar Lamps
This 19 year old Kenyan designer new that there was a better alternative than kerosene. In Africa kerosene lamps are still used in many areas and cause great harm to children and adults in rural African villages. Evan Wadongo created the MwangaBora solar lamp as an alternative to the unhealthy and dangerous kerosene lamps.
Source: Friedman Benda
