Random Green Stuff: From Water to Fire
Will this solve all of our problems on earth? Just imagine just to use water to fill up your car.
Will this solve all of our problems on earth? Just imagine just to use water to fill up your car.
Waterless urinals have been mentioned on Green Options before (here and here) but a recent innovation has earned them a brand new entry. As those who've used one can attest to, they usually aren't pleasant to the nose, but now Carome has brought out a new odorless model: the H2Zero. Waterless urinals save the average office 2.3 million litres of water a year, and now people might not [...]
Jumpcut , an internet video platform, asked their users "If you had just two minutes to show someone what to see, feel and imagine about the future of our world and its resources, what would you do? " The contest is closed and the winner of the $1,000 Grand Prize is … oops!
UPM Forest is a website which takes you by the hand and leads you through a virtual forest. Just visiting this flash-generated environment and listening to the woodland sounds will relax you. I've considered opening the site and allowing the birds to chirp in the background.But it's not just relaxing. While walking through the forest, you'll learn about modern forestry, and also be spoiled with loads of information and videos about plants, animals, berries, etc.I'm [...]
It's a good thing that I can't afford this camera. It'd probably be fine here in Ireland, but just imagine using it in NYC or any other big city.
You can now buy a camera that can detect greenhouse gases. Infrared-imaging company FLIR Systems recently revealed the GasfindIR-LW, a thermal imaging camera that can detect sulfur hexalfouride SF6 and 20 other environmentally perilous gasses. If you ever wanted to hunt down acetylchloride; allyl flouride;
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The evaporating clay fridge is clever, cheap and does no harm to nature. Why can't more technology these days follow its example?
This smart preservation device for foodstuffs was invented in 1995 by Nigerian engineer Mohammed Bah Abba. The Pot-in-pot cooler consists of a small earthenware pot nestling inside a larger one with wet sand filling the space in between. As the water in the wet sand evaporates, it extracts heat from contents of
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Editor's note: We're happy to welcome Juergen Horn on board as our newest writer. Juergen is a photographer and blogger who publishes Random Good Stuff and Ireland Blog. A German native, Juergen has recently moved to Ireland.Loreme is a company based in Munich, Germany and if I had only three words to describe them I would choose "Simple, Clever & Fun". With their latest invention "Loremeo" they [...]
