With the use of LED lighting system, we immediately consider a light system eco-friendly. What are the other basis of considering lamps as eco-friendly? Like any other (e.g. home furniture), other factors are also considered before they are considered eco-friendly and being a space saver is one of them as well as the use of materials. The YellowFin lighting system is a unique lamp that you can ever imagine. It works becoming one with the wall as it provide warm, stylish, and elegant illumination without the need to eat lots of your space. In addition, the YellowFin take advantage of the LED lighting system and was manufactured with the minimal use of materials.

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Prefab homes definitely produces low impact to the environment. Designed by Ryan Lingard, another eco-friendly structure was built in the wilderness near Joseph, Oregon. Hailed as the Signal Shed is packed with feature a person may need as they stay on this environment friendly home. It has the wood stove, metal roof, cedar rainscreen, reused windows, portable toilet, and operable shutters, which are good enough to make a resident feel comfortable as safe while staying in this pre-fab home. With roughly $10,000 amount of expenditure to complete this home, many are amazed of the unit’s design and features, but some felt it not worth the price. Take a closer look at the pictures and share your thoughts.

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Will you consider using recycled items while practicing an urban way of living? May be no. However, urban land artist Anna Garforth will make you practice urban living and enjoy the use of recycled items at the same time with her eco-friendly design called the Head Gardener. Head Gardener is a gardening project made of recycled empty milk bottles painted with guerilla images. In this way, the head gardener will not only be treated as a garden but as a character as well with the growing plants that acts are hair. How nice it is to think that trashes will not be landfilled anymore and at the same time additional fresh will be enjoyed through the plants that the gardener have.

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Used chairs, used garments, where did we all place them after finding out that they have no value at all to us already? Well, probably they are landfilled, which is obviously harmful to the environment. With the disposable fashion that we currently have, discarded clothes grow faster than it seems. Aiming to combat the growth of used garments destined to our landfills, Korean designer Soojin Kang created the Patched Chair. The patch chair uses a second hand chair covered with a patchwork of used fabric. The chair can look untidy with all the stitches visible, but it looks unique enough to be on our homes. Being a handmade piece of furniture, the Patched Chair manufacturing process produces zero carbon emission.

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We all know what hybrid cars are. They are powered by a mixture of sources and are designed to combat global warming. They normally produces lesser carbon emission. However, as time pass by, hybrid cars starting to evolve. Many of them looks nice enough to be on our streets, some are powered not only with hydrogen but also by electric and human power. In addition, today’s hybrid cars also produces zero emission just like the concept racing vehicle designed by Ivan Vela. The vehicle is a hybrid car powered by human power with electric assist. This hybrid racing car concept run at speeds in excess of 70kp with the help of its big sprocket feature with a measurement of 40cm in diameter.

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