Posts Tagged ‘sustainable city’

Water Building Resort Converts Air into Water

Saturday, June 13, 2009 22:27 By Jaiyant Cavale

With the help of the Teex Micron equipment, Water Building resort will become the world’s first building to ever convert air into water with the help of solar power. This would help future buildings to come to terms with water shortage and magically create water from thin air.

Humid air would be converted into cool and [...]

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Sustainable Urbanism: Stockholm, Sweden is EU’s 2010 Green Capital

Thursday, April 9, 2009 21:34 By GSerrano

The air is clean. Traffic is minimal. There are no coal-fired boilers. 70 percent of households receive a water heating system that comes from a large centralized plant that uses electricity.
The European Commission has recognized Stockholm as Europe’s most sustainable city. The Swedish capital has achieved a record in energy conservation and quality of life. [...]

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