Archives for the 'ecology' Category
Year in Review 2008: Best in Health by WorldChanging
WorldChanging brings stories of the most important and innovative new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future. Their articles are just amazing, and for the end of 2008 they decided to rediscovered some of the great events, innovations, interviews and debates that they covered in the previous year. They wrote a series […]
Top innovations of 2008
TIME magazine picked top 50 innovations of 2008. Among them there are some related to medicine. 1. The Retail DNA Test 14. The Bionic Hand 21. The Synthetic Organism 24. Bionic Contacts 33. Biomechanical Energy Harvester 50. A Camera For the Blind
Save water and your life when you shower
Just 2.5% of the planet’s water is fresh and less than 1% is available for human consumption because the rest is stored in the form of ice bergs. Think about this the next time you’re taking a shower. The average shower uses 64 liters of water, but this number can be even higher. Modern power […]
Green Hospital Room
Lloyd Alter of TreeHugger interviewed Suzanne Drake of the architectural firm Anshen+Allen during the IIDEX in Toronto. IIDEX NeoCon is Canada’s largest exposition and conference for the design, construction and management of the built environment. Anshen+Allen presented their idea of the green patient room at the conference. Watch the whole interview here… To learn more […]
