Eco Business Park, Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City, China

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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment and Development Co., Ltd (SSTEC) will be developing the first eco-business park of its kind in China, in Tianjin Eco-City’s Start-Up Area.

 

 

 

The Tianjin Eco-City is a landmark bilateral project between China and Singapore, located in the Binhai New Area, the focal point for the acceleration of growth in the Bohai Rim, China’s powerhouse for business, science, technology and culture in the 21st century.

 

With its strategic location, the Tianjin Eco-City is poised to realize its vision to be a centre of excellence for eco-activities and businesses that will involve companies that provide services in green financing, energy efficiency consultancy and eco-solutions.

 

Tianjin Eco-City, will also be an oasis of quality eco-homes and a prestigious address for high-value added services such as education, healthcare and urban solutions.

 

The Eco-Business Park, will occupy approximately 30 hectares of land and is expected to be the base for global eco-businesses in Tianjin and serve Northern China’s growing need for clean technologies and sustainable urban solutions.

 

 

SSTEC expects the business park to create over 15,000 white collar jobs which will attracts new residents and generate more economic spin-offs.

 

 

 

via s-archetype.blogspot.com

TianJin Eco city marks a new era in the way which people will live. Am looking forward to more interesting concepts while I get the feeling that most of it are based on an mainly 'expansive' ideas. Regardless, what I really like is that they utilise solar and wind energies and pay emphasis on harmonious living. Will have to see the final output when the entire project is totally completed by 2020. The first phase will be completed in 2 years time occupying 3 sq km. The whole project occupies 30 sq km and will house some 350 000 inhabitants.

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Airspresso

Pictures of Airspresso via My Cuppa 

There are many expresso machines in the market but what stands out from this one is its brewing techniques. You could  just have a cuppa at about any place using hot water and air pressure off from any bicycle pump. Only 250 gams in weight, yet robustly constructed of anodised aerospace aluminum, engineering plastic and brass; the Airspresso should be seriously seen as a green product.The idea appears to come from the traditional Italian coffee maker-- the Moka, making use of current materials and technology to remould into another clever product.It may not go well at luxurious gala dinner parties but it serves as a smart product to own for eco-conscious coffee lovers.

 

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Scubster, muscle-powered submarine, sous-marin à propulsion musculaire, sous-marin personnel, sous-marin de loisirs, sous-marin jaune, submarino, u-boot

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Interesting Packaging / mooncakes Design for (Mid Autumn Festival 2010

Interesting packaging made of wood and done in the form of a Chinese lantern. Simple and considerate thought for the environment where the packaging is a durable and functionable lantern after the mooncakes are taken out. The price is much less than what I was thinking. Around the price of S$60 including 3/4 mooncakes.

Haagen Das' innovative use of ice-cream and chocolate turns these mooncakes into another dimension.

Delightful colours makes these 'mini cakes' looks absolutely tantalising - Japanese style.

Regent Hotel's mooncake packaging design for their own mooncakes. The flower shaped plastic piece is used as a decoration that perks up the entire plain coloured packaging. It doesn't waste resources and both packaging and the plastic piece could be shifted and use in other packaging uses, should the need arises.

                                                                   
Authentic piece ....

Confectionaries to go with the mid authum festivities. Showing above are French pastries, cakes, tarts...etc

These are not a chest of drawers, the furniture style. These are chest of drawers made of card and plastic 'jade' for mooncakes..

All the above ar behind this entrance with the Chinese character 'Autumn'. (Qiu) Enjoy !

Bicycle-powered stand serves up coffee hot and cold - Springwise

OK, so pedal-powered coffee retailers aren't entirely new—we saw one back in 2008 in the UK, after all—but we can't resist sharing one more, spotted this time on the streets of New York City. Brooklyn-based Kickstand Coffee uses two bicycles, a fold-up stand and a hand-cranked grinder to serve up sustainable hot and cold coffee at events around the city.

The brainchild of three baristas, Kickstand Coffee relies on two 160-pound rolling carts that are each towed to location by a custom-built bicycle, according to a report on NYDailyNews.com. Once there, the carts unfold and attach to create a 9-foot-long bar that includes everything the trio need to make coffee. Beans are hand-ground on a cup-by-cup basis, and the iced coffee is cold-brewed; only Kickstand's hot coffee—brewed on location using specially adapted Chemex glass beakers—uses any propane or electricity. The company is working on a mini folding bicycle that customers will be able to use to grind their own beans. Pricing for Kickstand's coffee is USD 2.50 per cup, hot or cold.

With bicycle culture on the rise and coffee going strong, it seems perfectly natural to combine the two for a more sustainable cup of joe. The variations on this theme are virtually limitless—as are the opportunities. Time to get pedaling yourself...? (Related: Solar-roasted coffee.)

Website: www.kickstandbrooklyn.com
Contact: contact@kickstandbrooklyn.com

Spotted by: Verge Manuel / Images by: Big Waste of Time

via springwise.com

Human powered coffee making machine -- Would you care to peddle for your cuppa? If you care for the environment and your health, you would. Find the whole concept very interesting. Would love to get hold of the whole product to study in detail. Looks like a wonderful mechanism!

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Pictured: The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees | Mail Online

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Actually this floating concept isn't exactly new. The first time I saw a similar concept was about 5 years ago at an conference, designed by the Germans. I will try to see if they put it up online. Their structure was simple, large yet very sophisticated. As sea level rises, the auto response to the problem is to think off land. But the design process leads to varied versions. What they should have designed is a system that allows people to escape the ultimate climate collapse. The weather that we have now may well prompt drastic and sudden disasters. In such events, where could victims go? I have thought of it and am working on one. Not an easy project but I try it in my own spare time.

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Remaking Our Heartland | Realise | Rejuvenate | Regenerate

via heartland.hdb.gov.sg

Punggol is one of the heartlands in Singapore which is located in the remote eastern part of the country. The area is now developing a new concept for residential housing, notably the waterfront housing concept. Hopefully these projects will help to decentralized the main activities from the city centre which is really very busy at the moment. If we want 5 .5 million residents to live comfortably, housings these days need to combine nature within a man made enclosure.

PDFs of projects that you may be interested:
- Terraced Residence By The Water
- Model of the Terraced Residence By The Water

CES 2010: Green Gadgets Unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show! | Inhabitat

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Interesting gadgets off CES especially the battery chargers that run on solar power. One of the pictures in particular, which is on the site, strike me most: The iPhone was placed on one of these products reminds me of the poor battery life on the phone. Always wonder about it though the iPhone is a hot selling product here in Singapore too. They really should make the battery last far longer. Most people are charging the phone almost everyday despite light usage.

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LAVA wins first prize for masdar - world's first sustainable city in UAE

via designboom.com

The world's first sustainable city will be ready by 2016. The natural circulation within the city via its 'sunflower concept' cools the area naturally using Photovoltaic roof technology. The layout is very interesting, laying 'sunflowers' in the centre of a large hi tech 'garden'.

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Vertical Farming Skyscrapers

April 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 am

Vertical Farming Skyscrapers

in: Ecological Products, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference, Photo Perspectives

Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet’s population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and even animals are grown in … skyscrapers. Some serious work is going into this. More photos and video after the jump.

Architect Pierre Sartoux of Atelier SOA has put together this video about his vertical farming skyscraper design.

The Skyfarm
Architect Gordon Graff design for the city of Toronto – 48 floors and millions of square feet of growing space.

Architecture firm Mithun developed a vertical farm building to incorporate various green building strategies in a mixed-use residential and commercial complex designed for downtown Seattle.

The structure is designed as a kind of built organism – completely self-sufficient and adaptive to its surroundings.

The vertical farm project above was undertaken by Chris Jacobs in cooperation with the grandfather of skyscraper farm concepts: Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University.

All-in-one eco-towers would produce more energy, water (via condensation/purification) and food than their occupants consume.

More information at WebUrbanist

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Look at the video that is on the original site. Shows the various angles of the green building. Very interesting and highly useful concept to have agriculture done vertically.

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Peak Energy: Green Buildings In Singapore

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Singapore's plan to be a green city is emerging. This is one of them by Foster + Partners. Many of the new public housing and private buildings now have sky gardens - a feature that is very useful in a highly populated country.

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Green Planes - winner

Continuation from Green Planes & other design issues of real want and need.

Quick post on the winner for the Green Plane competition which was announced on the 19 June 2009 online at GreenAirOnLine site


The Team that won the first prize came from Australia's University of Queensland with the runner up from Singapore's National University of Singapore.

Extract from GreenAirOnLine site :

Team Australia:

The ‘COz’ team has a multinational make-up with
team leader, Michael Heitzmann, of Swiss origin and Alex Ng, originally from Hong Kong. Both are PhD students in mechanical engineering at the University of Queensland. Third team member is Benjamin Lindenberger from Germany, an aerospace engineering student who is undertaking his University of Stuttgart diploma thesis at Queensland.

“We wanted to demonstrate that composite materials made entirely with castor plant fibre can reduce the carbon footprint of aircraft and enhance environmental protection. We are extremely proud to have convinced the jury with our project and we hope it will have a future in aviation,” said Heitzmann.

WINNER:
Video Of Univ of Queenland's Castor plant fibre technology:
http://www.airbus-fyi.com/static/videos/_australia.300.flv

The runner-up was the ‘Solaire Voyager’ team from the National University of Singapore for its proposal to use solar cell technology integrating photovoltaic cells aboard aircraft to generate electricity.

RUNNER-UP:
Video of Solaire Voyager from the National University Of Singapore
http://www.airbus-fyi.com/static/videos/_singapore.300.flv

The rest of the other finalist videos can be found online here.

Earthship and biotechure

I've just made replies on definition of research in Chinese, made a quick visit to Twitter and surf back to facebook to find this interesting status remark by Prof Birgit Jevnaker of Oslo, Norway; who is currently working at the Design Institute there. I went to surf on line and find this interesting and related to my current post focus on green design. Here is a video about the topic for now:

Green Planes & other design issues of real want and need.

Would you choose to cut down carbon foot print by the process of elimination or by designing a another product ? I have always wondered about these 2 issues for various products. Every product has a different user culture and need. However, what intrigues me is the definition of 'need'. It determines whether we need to design another new product or a new policy that won't silently kill us all of our future.

A few issues to kill some brain cells:
If we cut down down gas emissions, but we end up having more flights, would that increase the net output of carbon gases into the atmosphere ?

This could be quite a debate.

Then here's another :
In the process of making the plane itself, we need to consume energy. Wouldn't that increase the carbon footprint as well ?

Now we are really thinking...

If we could make an optimal number of flights every year without increasing flights and even manage to reduce it; then the green technology on aircrafts would prove to be a positive output.

Would the above statement be true ?? I'll let you kill more brain cells to answer that...while I shall continue. For better or for worse, Airbus has conducted an international tertiary competition for designing the best 'green planes' of the future. 5 universities got into the finals :

• The “Big Bang Team” from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain for its windowless cabin proposal for a new eco-efficient aircraft design.

• “COz” from the University of Queensland, Australia (including an overseas student from the University of Stuttgart, Germany) for its proposal on the use of bio composite cabin materials made from castor plant natural fibres.

• “Kometa Brno” from Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic whose team developed a project on aircraft taxiway movements using electro-motors.

• “Solaire Voyager” from the National University of Singapore, selected for its solar cell technology project integrating photovoltaic cells aboard aircraft to generate electricity.

• “Stanford ADG” from Stanford University in the USA for their proposal on inverted V formation flight, building on the model of migrating birds to reduce energy consumption.

Finally when you see a green plane up in your blue skies, do drop the minphf a note here at blogger. Cheers !

[1st image : Concepts from Boeing, http://www.yourcarbonprint.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=15]
[2nd image : Design from the CleanEra project, http://gizmodo.com]


Other references:

• ethics : http://www.iisd.org/ic/info/ethics.htm
• Poitics of green design: http://multispective.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/the-politics-of-sustainable-design/
• technical comments from the TU Delft http://cleanera.weblog.tudelft.nl/

References:

• http://www.greenaironline.com/news.php?viewStory=433
• http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_373775.html
• http://www.yourcarbonprint.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=15