South Korean designers Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon have finished an extraordinary umbrella -”Air Umbrella.”

This umbrella has no canopy, instead, a slim pipe blows enough air to keep the rain away. The user can control the length of its stem and the scale of air cover at will.This cool, creative design brakes the traditional thought on the shape of umbrellas. It is also eco-friendly as it reduces the use of plastics.[1]

This wonderful suspension bridge made of grass located in Peru. Its length is 36.6 meters and it is made of special herbs Qoya.

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Polar bears and penguins committing suicide is the focus of a series of provocative art installations by Taiwanese artist Vincent J.F Huang. Dubbed the Suicide Penguins, Huang’s art explores the negative effects global climate change is having on the animals of the world, in particular the creatures living at the North and South Poles.

The Suicide Penguins art installation, located under Millennium Bridge in London, England features two glass penguins and a stuffed polar bear hanging from nooses.

Suicide Penguins by Vincent J.F Huang.

Visit: http://www.vincentjfhuang.com/

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A lot of time and money has been put in developing these electric cars and make them more lucrative to the buyer.

UK is coming up with a Electric car which will be a four seater, can run up to 70 miles without bothering to be recharged. It’s a Citroen C1 based car, which is joint venture by Peugeot, Toyota and Citroen. It shall take only six to seven hours to charge and can be charged in a 13a normal socket. Subsidies are also being discussed with British government to encourage people to go in for a Citroen C1. By 2011 Citroen C1will hit the market.

Up till now the designs of any of the previous launched electric cars have not tempted most of them to buy one. They are expensive no fancy features or designs and they could not accommodate large families either. Hope fully the scenario will change in the near future.

Another such product, which is with an electric motor running on three wheels, is an Aptera. It’s quite pleasing to eyes and pollution free.

Aptera 2e is originally manufactured in California, USA. Mostly to be launched by the end of 2009. Aptera 2e can run 100 miles without bothering to be recharged. This is a two seater car with comfortable space for luggage. A Navigation system, an air conditioner, Side and front airbags, Power locks and electric windows are few features of the Aptera2. You can go 0 to 60 in less than 10 seconds which is commendable for an electric car. Such features are not present in any of its present counterparts. You can plug it in to any normal outlet of about 110v which will be cost you about 50c. A test drive of the Aptera 2e shall be an experience you had been waiting for.

Aptera 2e will be launched in California initially then Florida followed by Texas. Only by 2010 or2011 it will be available in other parts of the US. With all the state of art facilities, saving a lot of your hard earned money on fuel and being an eco friendly vehicle it will surely be a treat to drive.

Our future lies in these cars. They only do well to the environment and also to your pockets. You might feel it on an expensive side initially but the amount of money you shall be saving on fuel in the long run is remarkable.

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About a hundred years ago  greenhouse effect and global warming is conveyed planet to such a state that Niagara Falls froze and could not resist the ice.

Eco 7 Folding Bike, a revolutionary concept design by Victor Aleman in Mexico. The Eco 7 is designed to be taken on planes and other transportation where space is a significant problem. The bike is designed in such a way that every part of the bike is collapsible, including the main frame, the handle bars, crank, brakes, wheels and chain.

Brazilian artist Nelly Azavedo had a very interesting action in Berlin. He made a thousand little men from the ice, and then left them to melt on the steps of Berlin’s Concert Hall.

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Nepali environment experts on Wednesday expressed their views at a talk program on “Increasing danger from the glacier and the measure to be taken to minimizing the glacier burst” held in capital Kathmandu.

At the program, Udaya Raj Sharma, Secretary at the Ministry of Environment, said that the problem of the glaciers bursting has not become an issue for other nations who possessed big industries that produced harmful gases. These nations have not shown any interest in addressing the problems of glaciers’ eruption.

Therefore, Sharma urged the government to take necessary steps to inform the big nations about the Nepal’s problems. From the government level, the big nations and their big industries should be told to decrease the production of greenhouse gas.

If the glaciers of Nepal burst, it would be Tsunami for Nepal, Sharma added.

According to the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), more than 40 glacier lakes in Nepal are under the risk of eruption due mainly to the ill effects of climate change.

At the program, Pemba Dorje Sherpa, the fastest climber to climb Mt. Qomolangma, requested the government and other agencies to save the land of Sherpas and their heritage for the future generation by taking effective measures to stop glaciers from bursting.

Sherpa said that though the climbers had found it easy to climb mountains because of melting of snow, an glaring example of effect of the climate change but the same effect can lead to the glaciers burst and will put the occupation of the Sherpas at high risk, Sherpa said.

Prakash Mani Sharma, one of the members of the organizers informed that his organizers has presented a memorandum to the UNESCO office to requesting the UN agencies to extend its assistance in saving the glaciers from the ill effect of the climate change and the global warming. They made the request to control the production of pollutants and harmful gases from the big industries around the globe.

Sharma added instead of providing funds for planting trees, the international agencies should help by helping Nepal in controlling pollution.

source: http://english.sina.com/