One of the most stunning pieces at this year’s 100% Design was this gorgeous recycled plastic bottle chandelier by Michelle Brand. Composed entirely from cut-off bottle bases, it lit up the floor at (re)design’s Lighten Up exhibition, which showcased a selection of innovative lighting designer-makers who are ’switched-on’ when it comes to tackling domestic lighting design solutions.
Original post by blogs@bobvila.com (Dave)
One of the highlights from this year’s London Design Festival was LIGHTEN UP, an illuminated exhibition that featured 64 innovative lighting solutions from UK designers. Presented by [re]design at this year’s 100% Design, the event focused upon “Looking beyond the bulb” and showcased a variety of ways that “sustainability is driving the evolution of new technologies, aesthetics, materials, and interactions”. Read on for a selection of our favorite designs!
Original post by Hank Green
One of the highlights from this year’s London Design Festival was LIGHTEN UP, an illuminated exhibition that featured 64 innovative lighting solutions from UK designers. Presented by [re]design at this year’s 100% Design, the event focused upon “Looking beyond the bulb” and showcased a variety of ways that “sustainability is driving the evolution of new technologies, aesthetics, materials, and interactions”. Read on for a selection of our favorite designs!
Original post by blogs@bobvila.com (Dave)
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, GM, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, Automotive X-Prize
The Progressive Auto X Prize has gotten over 100 teams that have expressed an interest in competing in next year’s competition. While a lot of these teams are small groups with big dreams, the X Prize foundation has repeatedly said they’d like the OEMs to enter. Early this year, the X Prize approached major automakers but they declined to participate.
Now, with the Chevy Volt, we have a vehicle that might get a 100 mpg rating from the feds. While the government’s rating is not what the X Prize will be using to determine their MPGe numbers, we got to thinking: what if GM enters the Volt into the X Prize? It seems like a good publicity move, but would the General entering the competition be like Goliath crashing David’s birthday party? Would the Volt even have a shot at winning, in your view? Also, there is a risk here, a big risk: what if the Volt were to lose to a high school team, how would that make GM look?
So, that leave us with the original question. Whaddya think?
Gallery: 2011 Chevrolet Volt Live Reveal
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LCD and plasma TVs are actually more efficient per square inch than those old-fashioned CRT screens. But that doesn’t mean they consume less electricity. In fact, simply because they are, on average, so much more gigantic than old CRTs, they consume far more electricity.
Your average 42 inch plasma TV will probably be eating up more power than your refrigerator over the course of a year’s use. And that’s just the use, nevermind all of the mining, packaging, processing and shipping that go into them before they arrive.
But while manufacturers once competed only on price, size and contrast ratio, a fourth important factor is finally emerging among television purchase points: efficiency. GreenTechMedia was in Japan this week covering the Ceatec conference, where efficiency is being touted left and right.
Sony had a 42-inch LCD TV from 2005 sitting next to a 42-inch LCD TV from 2008. The only difference: the 2005 one consumed 131 watts while the 2008 consumed 57 watts. And that’s just the beginning. Manufacturers across the board are planning on slashing power consumption by their televisions.
Sanyo hopes to reduce power consumption in their televisions by two thirds by 2011, and Sharp has a 26 inch LCD TV that consumes only 40 watts of power.
All of this is great news for the environment, but also great news for me. I haven’t yet bought an LCD TV. Though I’ve wanted one for some time, the power requirements have been a complete deal-breaker for me. But now that they’re getting into the range of your average light bulb (and reducing the vampire load) I’m getting pretty excited about my next upgrade.
Via GreenTechMedia
Original post by Hank Green
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