Awesome Green

Peter Byck’s non-partisan Carbon Nation movie presents the solutions and benefits of a low-carbon economy, e.g., strengthened business, national and energy security, and health improvement.

Next month, the Marina Bay Sands Casino and Resort in Singapore will be the proud home of the lotus flower-shaped, eco-conscious and world’s first ArtScience Museum, designed by Moshie Safadie.

A project of the Undercurrents charity, the Sol Cinema is the world’s smallest solar-powered movie house. It can accommodate 8 adults and mostly shows locally made short films. Video here.

Impress the foodies at the office when you bring your lunch in this sturdy, waxed canvas lunch tote, made by hand with leather strap, double stitched seams and hand hammered, solid copper rivets.

Mission Motors’ latest electric superbike has 141hp and 14.4 kWh of energy. Its induction motor provides 115 ft. lbs. of torque, enabling it to go from 0 to over 160mph in a single gear.

Auto Express got their hands on a prototype of Mercedez Benz SLS AMG E-cell. It’s got more torque and less horsepower, but the real loss here is the roar of the stock car’s mighty V8 engine.

Ok, it isn’t new, and at best it’s still a prototype, but still we must give a tip of the hat to Chris Dimino and the way he repurposed a Corona typewriter into a jumbo waffle maker. Because it rules.

Jeffrey Stephenson’s Level Twelve is a teak and bird’s eye maple PC case. The teak support box houses an HDD, optical drive and a USB 3.0 hub, while the maple box holds the main computer.

Google Earth plus Wayback Machine equals Earth Engine. The new technology stores historical and daily satellite imagery and data to allow scientists to observe planetary changes over time.

Adrian Johnson saw a wrecked BMW coupe and was surprised to see that the back seats were in good condition. Now he reuses them by installing the seats in used refrigerator bodies.

We like this fun companion video showcasing Freitag’s F48 Hazzard backpack: it offers portrait and landscape carrying options, quick access toe loop and intelligent storage for all your gear.

Barrett Alley’s beautiful collection of heirloom quality leather wallets and accessories is sewn by hand and made with vegetable-tanned leather, linen thread and repurposed vintage materials.

Christoph Thetard’s concept kitchen removes all need for electricity, powering kitchen appliances with a pedal-powered flywheel. It can blend, chop, grind coffee, and beat eggs at up to 10,000 RPM.

These glass catfish (the rainbows are light reflections) are naturally transparent with the exception of their spines, which helps them hide from prey in the wild. We could use this power too.

Faster than a V12 Ferrari, the Nemesis (based on a rebuilt Lotus Exige) does 0-100 in 8.5 seconds and can reach 170 mph. Earth-friendly bonus: it’s powered entirely by 100% green electricity.

Created by students for Stanford University and Aalto University, the Bloom laptop can be disassembled in two minutes without the use of any tools, making it easy to replace or recycle its parts.

Zero South and Jay Leno added a biodiesel generator that feeds power to four motors, one for each of this H1 Hummer’s tracks. It will be used in an expedition to the South Pole for a documentary.

Nissan’s entry to the LA Auto Show Design Challenge, the iV’s space-age looks belie its earthly origin – its synthetic ivy and spider silk frame is grown like a plant with the help of nanorobots.

Hydrofloors movable flooring systems enable swimming pool owners to preselect water depths and pool areas to be multifunctional. Bonus: a fully closed pool means greatly reduced heating costs.

Besides being aesthetically pleasing, the handles on Wenger’s Evowood pocketknife collection are made of sustainable Swiss walnut wood which would otherwise be scrapped as waste material.

Brammo’s electric motorcycles get more and more practical with every iteration. The Enertia Plus has a top speed of 60mph, a range of 80mi. and a built-in universal electrical adapter.

When departing in the ’90s, the Soviet army burned the explosives out of the mines stored in Mädasadam, leaving multitudes of cases as scrap iron. Mati Karmin repurposes these relics as art.

Patrick Hyland’s Nokia E-Cu (E for environment, Cu for Copper) concept is a mobile phone with copper skin that charges itself by conducting heat to an integrated thermogenerator. (Thanks PistolPete!)