1. EcoARK: The innovative and very impressive EcoARK in Taiwan is a monument to recycling. The three-story tall building, complete with an amphitheater and exhibition hall, was constructed using 1.5 million plastic bottles. Embedded solar power helps to run the building’s magnificent LED light displays at night. The Far Eastern Group, which commissioned the building, wanted to highlight the…

Some twenty years ago, mogul Ted Turner sought to create an animated series that would capture the imagination of the youth of the early 1990s by appealing to what he hoped would be their growing sense of responsibility to clean up a world that increasingly needed cleaning up. Turner’s target audience, a group of kids already primed by highly promoted events like…

1. Put those car keys down and give walking a go. Whether it is to work, the school run or simply to the shops, walking has a host of health benefits as well as being good for the environment. 2. Make sure you recycle tin cans, bottles and paper by using the containers the government provides. This means materials can be used again and again rather than taking up space in a landfill. 3. Save the…

With the failure of green energy poster child Solyndra – after the California-based company that received a $528 million taxpayer investment — the question being asked in many circles is whether the green industry is a smart investment for either the public or private sector. Scottsdale-based reNature, which recently received a grant from Arizona State University’s Edson Entrepreneurship…

If you want to introduce environment and other automation into your building, hotel or serviced apartment, traditionally you had to dig deep into the infrastructure of your building. With IP based solutions, meaning you are using the internet to manage your smart accommodation, the introduction of this technology is not as complicated as it once was. Energy management software and hardware can be installed into…