What a brilliant idea to repurpose plastic drink bottles into low-tech, low-energy air conditioners! If it works as claimed, it could also be applied in other areas to cut current electricity demand. Source: Bangladeshi Inventor Creates Electricity-Free Air Conditioner Out of Plastic Bottles
George Friedman, a geopolitical forecaster and strategist, and founder and former chairman of Stratfor, a prominent consulting firm to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, has some sobering predictions for us…and it doesn’t sound good. Source: GEORGE FRIEDMAN: A crisis is brewing that will tear the global system apart – Business Insider
Round homes were the preferred choice of our ancient ancestors. Could they be making a comeback as we become more conscientious about efficiencies? Source: “Mr. Fuller, Why would you build a round house?” : TreeHugger
This is about a family that lives in a bubble…a house inside a greenhouse to be exact. What a great idea! This is a project I’ve fantasized about building for years but I’m happy to say this family has beaten me to it. With a durable enough greenhouse, the internal living quarters could be anything, even just […]
David Attenborough, acclaimed nature documentary-maker, calls on the world’s governments to spend a fraction of their defense-related R&D budgets on making renewable energy so cheap that, in ten years , nobody will want to use fossil fuels anymore. According to Attenborough, capturing only 1/5000th of the solar energy that falls on the earth and moon […]