Chris Jordan: Visualizing the 2.4 million pieces of plastic that enter the world’s oceans every hour. “All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.”Close up of the dark area of the wave:
via MUG.
October 28, 2009
Apple-Licensed iPod Solar Charger Case
Coming soon and … mildly useful. Maybe if you live in the south or work outdoors.
(Via texturism, biteofpythias & evangotlib.)
September 3, 2009
That’s more or less the premise of the “Eco Assist” dashboard features on the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid. Much the way many video games have heads-up displays that change color according to the condition of a character’s health; the Insight’s speedometer readout has a crescent icon that changes hue based on the driver’s acceleration/deceleration rate, glowing green when it’s most fuel efficient, but turning blue as it becomes wasteful. Like a role-playing game, the driver’s behavior is also tallied over time, and displayed symbolically — here, in the form of an ivy-ringed trophy achievement that a driver can gradually unlock with green-friendly driving. It’s sort of like Wii Fit, but for cars.
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Upcoming Honda Insight Turns Eco-Friendly Driving Into Game (via @arainert, dpstyles & mattlehrer).
The coming electric cars might just be cool enough to make this NYC girl want to drive again.
August 22, 2009
Rest for the weary (and feathered): check out plans for a rooftop aviary for migrating birds on the Goldman Sachs Headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
(Via Sallan Foundation.)
June 24, 2009
Rebel Green’s packaging aesthetic is so fab, no? And the products are kind to the earth. As they write in their mission statement: “we are dedicated to creating goods that are as much a fashion statement as they are a principled choice.” (Via Double Takes.)
April 20, 2009
Eco-Dilemma: When Organic Eggs Are Sold In Styrofoam
Any way you cut it, egg packaging just kind of blows. So much waste. I’d like to see clever industrial designers go to task on less-waste versions, or some kind of new system that allows consumers to bring their own baskets to the market… (Pipe dream, perhaps.)
No kidding. The only solution I have is that I bring back my egg cartons to the Coop and get a tiny refund (they reuse them). But that doesn’t work for most sellers/consumers.
April 15, 2009
Empire State Building Plans Environmental Retrofit
I learned today from someone from the Clinton Climate Initiative, which helped to facilitate this project, that the paper of record did an excellent job covering this story except for one not-so-small detail: the retrofits will reduce energy consumption a total of 38% by 2013 … not 38% every year, as they reported (which, not incidentally, makes very little sense).
Oh, grey lady, you are rather grey around the temples, aren’t you?
Anyway, here’s the start of the otherwise excellent article:
Once the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building is striving for another milestone: It is going green.
Owners of the New York City landmark announced on Monday that they will be beginning a renovation this summer expected to reduce the skyscraper’s energy use by 38 percent a year by 2013, at an annual savings of $4.4 million. The retrofit project will add $20 million to the $500 million building makeover already under way that aims to attract larger corporate occupants at higher rents.
April 10, 2009
The soap in my hotel room was designed to reduce waste by not having a center - which is often thrown away. Clever!
Every little helps.
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