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Solar Patio Umbrella Lights Up the Night

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Solar Patio Umbrella Lights Up the Night

Images via Yanko It seems like there’s hardly anything new under the sun when it comes to solar power ideas these days. The Day Shade Night Light is one such design. The patio umbrella gathers sunlight during the day while providing shade, stores the energy in batteries in its stand, and provides a canopy of light during the evening. While not novel, the design does have some improved features over past ideas. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Adora Green underway

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Adora Green underway

Adora Green will offer about 800 apartments at S$450 to S$550 per square foot. It works out to about S$500,000 to S$600,000 for a five-room flat, S$400,000 to S$500,000 for a 4-room unit and S$300,000 to S$400,000 for a three-room. Prices will be finalised in the first quarter of 2011. Adora Green, a project under HDB#39;s Design Build and Sell scheme (DBSS) in Yishun, had its ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday. This is one of many DBSS projects announced this year to help first-timers get f

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Rihanna new Long Haircut picture

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Rihanna new Long Haircut picture

Rihanna has stayed loyal to her rich red hue since dyeing it for a European performance in June, she is hardly predictable when it comes to her length, switching up her style from an on-trend bob to a wavy shoulder length look. But with all of these beauty changes, we think the “Only Girl (In The World)” may have outdone herself with her latest style. No stranger to the stylist’s chair, Rihanna took it one step–and a few inches!–further this week when she debuted new long locks. The singer s

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Super Recyclable Laptop Can Be Torn Down in 2 Minutes Without Tools

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Super Recyclable Laptop Can Be Torn Down in 2 Minutes Without Tools

Photo via Autodesk The bulk of a computer is recyclable. Each of our desktops or laptops is made of components that can be easily turned into a new product at end of life — or rather, it should be easy to turn them into something new. While the materials themselves are highly recyclable, it’s tough work to separate them on the recycling line, which is one of the reasons recycling electronics is so expensive. Manufacturers are very slowly starting to take this in mind in their design phase, and third-party certifiers like EPEAT are giving them extra points for designing for easy recycling. But … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NRDC’s ‘Clean by Design’ Could Save China Textile Mills 16 MMT of Water Annually

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on NRDC’s ‘Clean by Design’ Could Save China Textile Mills 16 MMT of Water Annually

Fabric samples from Redbud factory in China. Image courtesy of NRDC . At the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday, Walmart announced its work with the Natural Resources Defense Council’s ( NRDC ) Clean by Design project–which is aimed at cleaning up China’s tex… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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11 Open Source Projects that Make Free Information Rock

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 11 Open Source Projects that Make Free Information Rock

Photo via Todd Huffman What happens when data is available for anyone to access and use? What happens when projects are open source so people can contribute their skills to improve it? We’re now more than ever connected to a wealth of information stored literally at our fingertips — if we can access it. So the concept of sharing is useful beyond creating tool libraries or Zipcar services. Sharing, when extended to information, can do amazing things, from creating fascinating mash-ups of data to expl… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Safety First With Awesome LED Bicycle Backpack (Video)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Safety First With Awesome LED Bicycle Backpack (Video)

Images via Yanko Design We have a soft spot for anything that makes cycling a little safer, and this concept design by Lee Myung Su, Park Geun Wan & Park Okhee pegs it. The backpack lights up with messages for traffic behind the cyclist, from turn signals to emergency signals, to thanking drivers for keeping their distance. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Samantha Pleet, Bahar Shahpar, and More Design ‘Little Newspaper Dress’ for Charity (Photos)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Samantha Pleet, Bahar Shahpar, and More Design ‘Little Newspaper Dress’ for Charity (Photos)

Bahar Shahpar’s newspaper yarn dress at the ‘Do-Gooder Design Challenge.’ Image courtesy of Yesterday’s News . Fashion designers don’t hesitate when it comes to making a statement in recycled fashion: From Gary Harvey’s ‘Financial Times’ dress to Project Runway winning designer Irina Shabayeva’s newspaper coat , the little newspaper dress–or LNS, for short–is a popular trend in sho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers

All photos by Will Price via KLH Three years ago I wrote about Waugh Thistleton’s Timber Tower , what was to be the tallest wood residential building in the world. It’s up now, and Craig Liddell, commercial director for KLH UK, the builder, spoke at the Green Building Festival in Toronto. The building is a remarkable mix of design and wood technology, all completely invisible to the people inside. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Yahoo’s New Efficient Data Center Modeled After Chicken Coops

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via CNET , Credit: Yahoo The big competitive race for data centers these days isn’t how many servers they can hold, but how efficiently they can hold them. It leads to some pretty cool (literally) architectural ideas, from keeping servers in shipping containers to storing them in cathedrals . But Yahoo has gone a different route. Taking a cue from the efficient cooling of chicken coops, the company has modeled their latest data center aft… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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