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Share Your Environment

Share anything related to natural environment, cleantech, greentech, eco design, gadgets, water, air, waste management and problem solving - and invite your friends. Pin Etiquette: http://pinterest.com/about/etiquette/

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Container Guest House by Poteet Architects

Shock Facts, Développement, Water Infographic, Daily Water, Conservative Water, Smart Water, Smart Infographic, Saving Water, Sustainable Infographic

Plant a tree. It's the best time! #Eco #Green #Trees

Reception Hall Stilo Creativo | 1001 Pallets

solar boat? Sweetness. Definitely want me one of these.

Pallet wheelbarrow | 1001 Pallets

Giant, fluorescent pink slugs found living atop a mountain in Australia #Eco #Pink #Nature

Cleantech and innovation cycles in #Finland --- Learn more @ Solved.fi: "Cleantech will play a key role and serve as the backbone of the Finnish economy in the future." -> solved.fi/

Biomimicry at its best: The world’s greenest office building, the Bullitt Center, will open on Earth Day in Seattle.

Free Spirit Spheres Treehouses / Vancouver Island, Canada

Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment. TED Talk

Turn Hot Patios Into Hot Water Using Hidden Temperature Converting ThermaHEXX Panels | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

If you have ever wanted to know the lifecycle of a cardboard box with the amount of recycling for cardboard boxes then this site is for you. We show the life of a cardboard box from forest, to delivery, and back again.

Cleantech is all about solving problems... WE KNOW! solved.fi

water spouts

An example of the #paver cooling effect of #ThermaPAVER while heating water with absorbed #solar #energy. The left side of the yellow line is a control zone without ThermaPAVER (138°-150.6°). A ThermaPAVER system is actively running on the right side of the yellow line (113°-118°). Far left and right readings are 16” apart. The middle readings are only 3” apart. #ThermaHEXX

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This #roof top #patio in #Whitefish #Montana is used year-round by Casey's Bar. It has a #ThermaPAVER invisible #solar collection system installed underneath the beautiful #pavers. ThermaPAVER will cool the #paver surface all #summer, and use the absorbed energy from the sun to heat the domestic water for the restaurant below. During the #winter, highly efficient snow melting occurs. ThermaPAVER snow melt system pays for itself.

A bridge that repurposes abandoned viaducts, produces energy AND looks futuristically sleek? Yes, it can be true, and it is Italy’s proposed Wind Turbine Viaduct called “Solar Wind.”

Global Wind Day occurs annually on 15 June. It is a day for discovering wind, its power and the possibilities it holds to change our world. This year more than 230 events were held in 40 countries. Celebrate with us!

PACKARD FOUNDATION OPENS #SUSTAINABLE, STUNNING HQ: The new 49,000 sq ft building is designed for Net-Zero, Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, which means it will generate as much energy as it uses...It also reduces water usage by 40% and captures rainwater from its roofs to two 10,000-gallon storage tanks below...Many other Green innovations include Landscaping with 90% native plants, 'rain gardens' and using Forest Stewardship Council-certified wood etc

Student dorm Puuseppä in Kuopio is the first zero-energy apartment block in Finland. As a national zero-energy pilot project it was built for high accessibility, for inhabitants to be selected by the Disability Services of the City of Kuopio. More info at the linked site.

solar boat? Sweetness