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Boxed Water

What a great idea. I look forward to the day this becomes the standard.

Boxed Water Is Better: "

With Boxed Water Is Better, the only thing you're really consuming is the water itself. A new brand—and concept—Boxed Water has successfully taken the bottled water phenomenon to eco-friendly heights.

(Via Cool Hunting.)

A bus sculpture made from 50 scrap cars

A sculpture to remind people to take the airport bus and save the emissions of 50 cars. Great idea and apparently it's created quite a buzz.

[from creativity-online] Acne Advertising created a sculpture from of 50 scrap cars to look like the airport shuttle service's coaches alongside the highway to a Swedish airport. Fifty cars represents how many fewer cars are on the road when one airport shuttle bus is full of passengers. The campaign website hosts a live feed from the installation and counts all the cars en route to the airport in the video. Counters exhibit the number of cars next to the equivalent number of buses that would be on the road if those car passengers had taken the shuttle service. via creativity-online

Peapod Eco Car with a smile

An electric car that was just announced by Chrysler. The specs seem to be more like a suped up golf cart than a real car but you can't help but smile at it... as it smiles back at you.

via Peapod

Oyster Wave Energy Converter puts climate change to good use

I've always wondered why waves weren't used to good use. This seems to give a lot of clean energy to a lot more areas. Nice.

Oyster Wave Energy Converter puts climate change to good use: "

One of the Holy Grails of green power is hydroelectricity, and we've certainly seen our fair share of research in that department. The newest guy on the scene is called Oyster, a collaborative effort between Queen's University in Belfast and Aquamarine Power Limited that sees something called an Oscillating Wave Surge Converter placed offshore (in depths around 10-12 meters). When moved by waves, the device's double acting pistons push seawater ashore via high pressure flow lines, where it is converted to power using tried and true hydroelectric generators. Since the hydroelectric plant is located onshore, it is accessible for maintenance 24-7. According to the company, peak power should be around 300-600 kw, depending on the unit's configuration and location. The first prototype is to be deployed off the coast of Orkney this summer, where we'll see if it can transform high tides and abnormal weather patterns into juice for your Xbox. One more pic for you after the break.

[Via Renewable Energy World]

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Mikel Uribetxeberria, photographer

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[written by Shape+Color] I love it when my expectations (and my notions of what belongs where) are shattered. And when it’s done by a beautifully-honed image, then that’s even more kick ass.  It’s the sort of unassuming subtlety of these shots by Basque photographer Mikel Uribetxeberria that gets me. The locations are sort of banal and sterile, while the animals don’t appear unnerved; they’re almost pensively bored more than anything else. It’s the apparent, unapologetic normalcy of such an incrediblly abnormal situation that makes these shots so interesting.

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Muji Straws made out of actual wheat straws

Here's a brand new product with an idea that's thousands of years old. A perfect product for a eco friendly, minimalist and utilitarian brand (non brand) - Muji. Made from wheat straws and nothing else. What a great idea.

[from influxinsights.com]:could muji be the global brand of the moment?: "Perhaps there's never been a better time for Muji.

The Japanese brand has been around for decades and has slowly come out of its shell to expand into international territories, but it's global footprint is pretty tiny. With the world looking for more sustainable and affordable products, Muji seems well placed to be a leader in this space and it's something that the brand truly owns as it comes from its original DNA.

There's no other retailer of its scale that comes close to Muji's philosophy and ideology.

One great example of this in action is the recent prize it held for new products. Asking for solicitations and ideas from the outside world.

The winner was a straw straw that was developed by a Japanese designer. The concept so perfectly fits the brand and its ethos, no wonder it won. No flash, no frills- just a clever idea that reminds us and re-introduces us to the original straw, complete with its inbuilt recyclability.

The straw straw is so timely and so Muji.


Posted by Ed Cotton"

(Via http://www.influxinsights.com/influx.xml.)

The Giant Crystal Caves of Naica: The Documentary

The Giant Crystal Caves of Naica: The Documentary: "
(For its November issue, National Geographic journeyed to the ‘Sistine Chapel of crystals.’ The one and only thing we'll point out is that documentary filmmakers were photographed there, obviously hinting that a documentary is in the works, most likely for television broadcast. We are now on the lookout for it. Photo by Carsten Peter, Speleoresearch & Films. Source.)

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(Via Pruned.)

Rotating Architecture: 16 Sweet Spinning Structures

When I was a child, it was a dream to live in a house that rotated. Perhaps, it can still become true?

Rotating Architecture: 16 Sweet Spinning Structures: "

Architects have always aimed towards building bigger, wider and higher (and, recently, more sustainable as well). Now technology has made a fourth design dimension possible: movement. These 15 amazing structures shift their shapes, put a new spin on style!

(image via: Everingham Rotating House)

(Via WebUrbanist.)

Dan Burn_Forti, Photographer

Beautiful and contemplative shots. More portraits and landscapes by clicking the image below.

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