Dubai is quickly emerging from the desert sands and more people are moving into the famed city. With limited land available for agriculture already, Dubai may soon be in need of an alternative solution for growing food for its residents. One solution could be this Oasis Tower vertical farm designed by Rahul Surin. Covered in ETFE and powered by renewable energy, this farm could grow enough food to feed up to 40,000 people while providing housing for some Dubai residents.
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Our modern kids certainly don’t need to subscribe their imaginations to antiquated Victorian dollhouses. So why not replace those uptight, dim monstrosities with something a little more in-tune with the times? With six spacious rooms spread across an open floor plan, the uber-modern Emerson House designed by Brinca Dada hosts a living room, kitchen, library/office, master bedroom, bathroom and child’s bedroom. You can also find awesome features like mitered glass corners, solar panels, LED lights and more! Being an eco-kid has never been so cool!
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Photo: Flickr, CC Your Solar Roof or Micro Wind Turbine Produces Excess Power?
The Californian legislature just passed a new bill that would increase the amount of power that utilities can buy from people who produce power at home (mostly solar panels, and small wind turbines). The current law limits this to 2.5%, but once the governor has signed the new law, this will be raised to 5%. “The Assembly adopted the bill on a 53-1 vote. Rachel Arrezola, a spokeswoman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said the governor intends…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The big brains at the California Institute of Technology (every time I hear about Caltech I think of Richard Feynman…) have figured out a way to create solar panels that have at least three very desirable characteristics: 1) They are very good at absorbing light, 2) they are mostly made of cheap plastic and only use a very small amount of expensive semiconductors, and 3) they are flexible. How do they do that?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Located far from power and water infrastructures, farms and settlements in Israel’s sparsely populated south are betting on a new cash crop: renewable energy. With the sun shining year round and an abundance of fallow land, fields of solar panels are gradually emerging on roofs and on the edges of agricultural fields. Government incentives and a new regional master plan are in place, contracts are being signed and a first batch of projects is already sprouting. With its goal of achieving energy independent while creating thousands of new green jobs,…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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