Green Options » energy efficient dishwasher http://greenoptions.com/tag/energy-efficient-dishwasher Posts tagged 'energy efficient dishwasher' Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Simple Tech = Common Sense Design http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/06/17/simple-tech-common-sense-design/ http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/06/17/simple-tech-common-sense-design/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:55:50 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/06/17/simple-tech-common-sense-design/ At the other end of the design spectrum from the energysucking gizmology that now pervades our lives; simple tech is quietly bringing back simplicity and sustainability as a worthwhile goal for industrial design. Here’s a good example; a low tech kitchen appliance that would go well beyond a simple energy star rating for efficiency.

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This practical and simple energy efficient dish washer/dish storage unit by design students Schwartz and Steiner at the Bauaus Universität Weimar is a great example of the simple tech that the world needs now.

It is a reduction of a machine to its essentials, orientated to user-needs. This dish washer builds on the movements that we already make…

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