Inhabitat's Week in Green of November

We should admit that street lights are an important part of our life. They light our way home to safe at night but spent lots of electricity power in the whole night at the same time. So if we can create a kind of trees can light like Avatar could be multipurpose.

A group of scientists who may be the big fans of Avatar in Taiwan recently discovered that placing gold nanoparticles within the leaves of trees causes them to give off a luminous reddish glow. The idea of using trees to replace street lights is an ingenious one – not only would it save on electricity costs and cut CO2 emissions, but it could also greatly reduce light pollution in major cities. What’s more, we can save the power of street light, create romantic atmosphere in park and reduce the probability of crime and risk, just really looks like playing the roles in Avatar. If those awesome trees planted in the front of an abandoned factory, how do you feel about it? Killjoy! We need some architecture which full of High-tech feeling. So, what about the Park Hotel in Hyderabad?

Described as a 'Modern Indian Palace', the Park Hotel is distinguished by its impressive facade of perforated metal, which serves as a sun and rain screen that protects the building’s high-performance windows. Day lighting, orientation, solar gain and local climate were all taken into account during the design of the building to maximize light and minimize heat gain. The mostly square volume wraps around an elevated large courtyard that provides protection for the hotel’s pool, restaurants, bars, retail shops, and other mixed-use programs. This hotel totally is designed as a full-functions city with lowest energy consumption. Mention to energy consumption, I should introduce you guys “the world’s first carbon neutral zero-waste city” which plan to de created by Foster + Partners, is slowly becoming a reality of epic proportions. The prototypical sustainable city, Masdar, is currently under construction twenty miles outside of Abu Dhabi. When finished, the city will be powered entirely by renewable energy, making it one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments.

Well, I know those aforementioned stuffs are still in the long future. Maybe one of them will be delayed or cancelled tomorrow. But I believe that you must be interested in the existing stuffs just like multitask's ios 4.2, full-featured video converter or labor-saving machine – Tiger-Stone.

Tiger-Stone, an existing automatic Dutch paver laying machine, rolls out a beautiful and sustainable hardscape, creating an instant road anywhere it travels. This machine consists of an angled plain that workers feed with paving stones or bricks. As the electric crawler inches forward along a sand base layer, the bricks are automatically packed together by gravity. A small telescoping forklift feeds the hopper, allowing the Tiger-Stone to lay out an impressive 400 square meters of road day, and the span can be adjusted up to six meters wide. We can see the road from this machine is attractive, durable and practical. But I believe this kind of machine will not be widely used in some countries for the road is really durable and practical. Without pot-holed roads, some departments will live hardly.