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  • Modular Products from Reclaimed Wood: Pop-Up Office

    Built out of reclaimed wood palette boards, separate modules collectively form the modern work place, facilitating both individual work and collaboration. Our designers claim the result is a workspace that is simultaneously bare bones and tailored to the individual. In sinuous forms, the reclaimed boards morph from wall and floor planes into furniture elements.

  • Water Purification Tablet for Developing World: U.Va. Nonprofit Organization – PureMadi

    The design allows a user to pour water from an untreated source, such as a river or well, into the pot and allow it to filter through into a five-gallon bucket underneath. The pot has a flow rate of one to three liters per hour, enough for drinking and cooking. The filtered water is accessed…

  • Low-Carbon Hybrid Energy Systems: China’s Future Energy Solutions

    Coal dominated energy resources and consumption dominate the energy structure in China. This leads to the great challenges for China’s future energy development along with both growing demand for energy and high pressure for CO2 emissions reduction. From the earlier viewpoint, the reduction of CO2 emission could be reached by replacing fossil fuel by low-carbon…

  • Global Warming: Understanding the Causes & Effects

    This article on global warming has been reposted from Planetsave. Global Warming Effects and Causes: A Top 10 List (via Planetsave) One of the biggest issues facing us right now is global warming. Its effects on animals and on agriculture are indeed frightening, and the effects on the human population are even scarier. The facts about…

  • Asia Bioplastics Outlook 2013

    This is the international conference on bioplastics and bio-based business, focusing on the global and regional bioplastics capacity, technology and market. The event is initiated and organized by CBI BIZ, which has over 10 years of experience and knowledge in the conventional plastics industry and innovative plastics market. This year’s conference will present the latest…