Tag: environment
Green Tech: First Ever Bio-Adaptive Algae-Powered Building Opens
If you like green tech, this building in Hamburg, which is powered by algae, is going to inspire you. It's the first building like it in the world, and it's basically a self-sufficient living building. If you don't know what algae is, here is a Google Images link so you can see what it looks like. A ...
4th Grade Students Crowdfund A Solar-Powered Classroom On Kickstarter
Modern technology opens up so many new doors for teachers to be able to educate children in more fun and inspiring ways. Apple has sold more than 4.5 million iPads to schools in the United States since its launch in 2010. However, using technology in schools goes far beyond just replacing heavy text ...
Virtual Environment Treadmill Is Our Next Gen Gaming Accessory
Now that virtual reality is once again on an incline, we are starting to see a whole lot of accessories that will help gamers and virtual realists emerge themselves into the virtual world in a more realistic way. There have no doubt been plenty of innovations that have tried to become an all-family ...
![Highest Paid CEOs In Charity: Some Of These Are Shocking [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/highest-paid-ceos-charity-infographic-optimized.jpg "Highest Paid CEOs In Charity: Some Of These Are Shocking [Infographic]")
Highest Paid CEOs In Charity: Some Of These Are Shocking [Infographic]
A few months ago, at the end of year, Charity Navigator released their 2012 CEO compensation study based on the CEO salaries of U.S. charities that rely on public support and donations to provide a public service. There was some shocking information in that report, specifically with regard to the hi ...
Moveo: The Portable, Foldable Electric Scooter That Rolls Like Luggage
With the direction design seems to be headed lately, it seems like a lot more than just our devices and apps are going mobile. We apparently want to take everything with us, including our houses. Yup, recently I wrote about a house big enough for 2 people that is portable and can fit on the back of ...
![Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rise-of-smartphone-recycling-infographic-optimized.jpg "Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]")
Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]
I remember back in 2012 when I read an article on Mashable about how by the end of the year, there would be more smartphones than people in the world. The study used to back up that statement was the Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update 2012 - 2017 by Cisco. Now that we are into 2013, I'm sure ...
Disappearing Package Design Creates No Waste…It Just Washes Away
Every single year, Americans alone put over 140,000,000,000 pounds of packaging in the trash. Packaging waste makes up a lot of what we throw away, and when you think about how much packaging you toss in the garbage can each day, it might surprise you. Wouldn't it be nice if a package design was cre ...
Live Like An Elf In An Extraordinary LOTR Treehouse
How would you like to live like an elf? We've featured a lot of exquisite treehouses on Bit Rebels, and each time when I think I've seen it all, I find another one that blows my mind. Hanging out in a tree has progressed a lot from back in the days when we used to throw some blankets over some barel ...
The 10,000 Year Clock Inspires Us About The Future Of Humanity
It’s the year 4012, and there’s a ringing in the middle of a mountain. It’s a song no one on Earth has heard before, and it’s a song that no one alive will ever hear again. The 10,000 Year Clock is a project to capture the imagination. It’s also a project designed to inspire questions. Why would you ...
Trash Bags Art: Illuminated Garbage Lights Up The City
We often talk about the environmental effects of all the plastic grocery bags that are produced each day, but what about plastic trash bags? We can't really recycle or reuse those bags since we ultimately fill them with all our garbage, but what does that mean for the environment? What happens to th ...
Leaf Carvings: Cars, Trucks & Airplanes Cut Into Leaves
There's been a lot of leaf carvings featured around the Internet over the past few months. When I first started seeing them, my brain didn't really get it. Leaves are so fragile, and I just couldn't comprehend how someone could possibly carve so delicately into a leaf without breaking it in order to ...
Starbucks Location Built From Recycled Shipping Containers
Not only is Starbucks my favorite place to get coffee (Caramel Macchiatos to be exact), but this is also my favorite architectural design I've seen this year so far. What you see in these pictures is a Starbucks drive-thru created from four huge shipping containers. The containers are recycled and r ...
3D Printed Eco-Friendly Houses: The Future Is Now
This is going to blow your mind. Are you ready? Did you know that digital 3D printing of eco-friendly houses is a reality now? In other words, it's not something that could happen in the future (which we've read about before), but it's happening now. The whole concept of 3D printing is completely ba ...
The Twitter Environmental Effect: A Unique Doomsday Infographic
Yesterday my son asked me why so many people say the world is about to end. That is a loaded question when you think about it. He even mentioned a date when it is all supposed to end, which is tomorrow (January 2). I even found a countdown to the end of the world on My Countdown. At the time I'm wri ...
Mama Birds Feeding Baby Birds: 8 Heart Warming Photos
I remember earlier this year when the webcam recording that family of bald eagles in Iowa went viral. Back then we were all waiting for that third egg to hatch, and at any moment there were between 100,000 and 150,000 people watching the nest live. That experience taught us a lot about the behavior ...