It’s common knowledge that everything is moving towards the green trend – some faster than others. Frank McKinney, a real estate “artist” and fan of the pacific influences, created a green home which is to date the largest eco-friendly residence in the world. Located in Palm Beach County Florida, this is the most responsible way to live a very good life....
Apr 19, 2012 | Categories: Green Living | Tags: 11 baths, 2 glass elevators, 3 laundry rooms, 4-car garage, 7 bedrooms, Acqua Liana, Air conditioning, Aquarium wet bar, Automated bio-feedback, Bali, Electrical consumption, Environmentally conscious lighting, Fiji, Fijian, Fire spa, Florida, Frank McKinney, Garden, Green home, Green trend, Guesthouse, Hardwoods, Hawaii, Home Automation, Home cinema, Insulative characteristics, largest eco-friendly home, Liquid serenity, Mansion, Ocean view, Pacific influences, Palm Beach County, Purification systems, Real estate artist, Reclaimed wood, Recycled, Reflecting ponds, Renewable wood, Resource consumption, Roof, Runoff water, Solar panels, Swimming pool, Tahiti, Tahitian, Three-storey, Ultra-high efficient appliances, US Green star rating, Water features, water flower, Water gardens, Water wall, Waterfalls
This product was brought to my attention last week, and I found it so fascinating that I actually considered how I would express the innovation and fascinating uniqueness of the product without having something for readers to see and feel....
Apr 02, 2012 | Categories: Green Living | Tags: 100% polyester, Appearance, Clear textile appearance, EnviroScreen 805, fabrics, Greenhouse effect, Innovation, Metallised fabric, Patterns, Reduction of CO2 emissions, Reflective, Reflectivity, Robust, Sample, Screen-like construction, Texture, Transparent, Trevira CS, Vacuum-bonded aluminium, Visual and thermal comfort, Warmth
On Monday, Eskom issued the warning that many had been expecting - that the risk of load-shedding was high as demand outstripped the parastatal's capacity to supply power. As early as last year,CEO Brian Dames warned of the potential risks of keeping the lights on across the country....
Jan 11, 2012 | Categories: Green Living | Tags: Brian Dames, Conserve energy, December-January issue, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Eskom, Financial Mail, Lights, Load shedding, Parastatal capacity, Peace of mind, Peak shortfalls, Rolling blackouts, SA Home Owner, Weather strips
When I’m driving to work in the morning, I like to listen to the 5fm Breakfast Show, it’s a great laugh and happens to be quite informative most of the time. This morning, the COP17 conference was the early topic of discussion, and the hosts were discussing recycling and the green movement....
Nov 28, 2011 | Categories: Green Living | Tags: 5fm Breakfast Show, Benefits of recycling, COP17, Follow by example, Four dustbins, Glass, Going green, Going green in the home, Green house emmisions, Leigh-Anne Mol, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Precious resources, Recylcing, Save our planet, Separate dustbins, Severe warnings, Space saving, The green movement, UN climate experts
Speaking at the awards presentation for the World Architecture Festival, Paul Finch, festival director of content, said that the building that won this prestigious title was “a magnet for people with a whole range of ideas”. "It won," he said, " for the scale of its ambition, and because it was a symbol of an imaginative feeling for a city”. ...
Nov 07, 2011 | Categories: Green Living | Tags: 22@ district, Architects, Clean energy, Cloud 9 office building, CO2 reduction, District Cooling, Dynamic ETFE sun filters, Energy efficiency related to smart sensors, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Environmental revolution, Global warming, Green credentials, Imaginative feeling, Large office space, Media-TIC building, Net zero building, Paul Finch, Photovoltaic roof, Public space, Space for start-ups, Sustainability, World Architecture Festival
