Bike and generate power! (video)

siva cycleSiva Cycle, is a company which developed the ATOM, a bicycle generator and rechargeable battery pack designed to power virtually any electronic or mobile device via USB. Indicatively, it calculates for every two minutes cycling, the battery is charging an iPhone by 1%.

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World’s greenest building makes official debut (video)

Bullitt-CenterLast Earth Day, 22 April, was the day where Bullitt Center, which is being called the “greenest commercial building” in the world, has made its official debut. The building – a total area of ​​4,645 square meters – covers its energy needs thanks to the huge, almost flat roof which is covered with solar panels.

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International Noise Awareness Day 2013

noiseIn 1977 soundscape artist Raymond Murray Schafer foresaw the problems related to an increase in human population and technology, writing: noise in the sky is distinguished radically from all other forms of noise in that it is not localised or contained … modern technology has given each individual the tools to activate more acoustic space. This development would seem to be running a collision course with the population increase and reduction of available physical space per individual. Raymond Murray Schafer (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composerwritermusic educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).

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