This design concept was submitted as part of The Greener Gadgets Design Competition which took place during the month of February, 2008 in New York city.
Sevin Coskun says’
“Wasup” is a conceptual design integrating washing machine with toilette-flush. It suggests a sustainable water consuption by storing the wasted water in toilette-flush tank and reuse it with flushing.” [CORE77]
via boingboing
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Following the footsteps of eco-freak billionaire Richard Branson, who’s fuelling its jets with babassu nut and coconut fuel, the US Airforce’s B-1B Lancer will be propelled with synthetic fuel.
Based on the B-1A bomber, the B-1B was developed by Rockwell International in the 1980s, when 100 of the aircraft were produced to support a nuclear mission and were stationed at Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases. In the 1990s, the B-1B was transitioned to a conventional-weapons mission.
“This week the US Air Force achieved the first supersonic flight using alternative synthetic fuel, booming a B-1B Lancer without problems over the White Sands Missile Range airspace in New Mexico. The supersonic strategic bomber, designed to deliver atomic weapons, will be able to start Armageddon at $30 to $50 less per barrel while helping the environment and without depending on foreign oil. You read that well, you commie hippie treehuggers: war is getting cheaper, and it will help climate change, nuclear winter excluded. Looking at its composition, however, the synthetic fuel is certainly not as harmless as other alternatives.”[GIZMODO]
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Movie and television star, sex symbol and now animal-rights advocate Pamela Anderson (just like Brigitte Bardot) is eco friendly. Ok … what next… organic fake breasts maybe?
“Pamela Anderson is shaking things up in her hometown of Ladysmith, British Columbia. The actress and animal lover has teamed up with former hockey pro Geoff Courtnall to create an environmentally friendly residential development on five acres of waterfront property that her grandparents once owned.
Pamela Anderson is shaking things up in her hometown of Ladysmith, British Columbia. The actress and animal lover has teamed up with former hockey pro Geoff Courtnall to create an environmentally friendly residential development …”[ecorazzi]
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The founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, said global warming is “the greatest scam in history” last November. On March 3, 2008 , while speaking at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change being held in New York City, Coleman took his criticisms further by advocating that all those involved in the sale and marketing of carbon credits, including Al Gore, should be sued “to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming. Global warming alarmists say that the issues are not subject to debate… even if there is scientific countermands.
“Global warming crusader Al Gore repeatedly claims the climate change “debate’s over.” It isn’t, but the news media clearly agree with him. Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the networks, and when their opinions are mentioned it is often with barbs like “cynics” or “deniers” thrown in to undermine them.
Consistently viewers are being sent only one message from ABC, CBS and NBC: global warming is an environmental catastrophe and it’s mankind’s fault. Skepticism is all but shut out of reports through several tactics – omission, name-calling, the hype of frightening images like polar bears scavenging for food near towns and a barrage of terrifying predictions.” [BMI]
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While in Canada many businesses over the past years, magically became “green”, and claim that their products or services are “environmentally friendly” for any reasons, some countries like Australia have tightened the rules. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission put in place strict guidelines concerning these type of claims.
Here in Vancouver, there’s cement companies such as Ocean Construction Supplies Limited, one of Lehigh Cement Company’s ready-mix operations doing business on Granville Island advertising themselves as being green and eco-friendly!
“Australian marketers are being advised to stop making vague claims about a product’s environmental benefits. New guidelines from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission warns companies about claiming products are “green,”“environmentally friendly,” “environmentally safe,” “energy efficient,” “recyclable” or “carbon neutral. Companies breaching the guidelines face fines of up to $1.1 million”[junkscience]
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