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Green citizens just can’t get enough of verdant architecture. However while we’ve been concentrating on greening exterior surfaces of buildings, innovative companies have taken their grass inside. These 'green walls' adds a welcome ecological element to sterile office environments and improves air quality while taking up less floor space than potted vegetation does.
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| These textile walls are constructed with individual foam fabric tiles which connect together using an ingenious folding system. This scheme allows for a great deal of flexibility with an infinite degree of permutations. Moreover, the simple assembly allows the walls to be easily reconfigured, creating a most spectacular architecture with color and simplicity, using textiles based on innovative and experimental design.
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| A waterless washing machine called Airwash, removes stains from garments in a few minutes. Developed at the National University of Singapore, the appliance uses negative ions, compressed air and deodorants to clean clothes.
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| For decades, the wallpaper industry has standardized a wall covering made entirely of, or at least coated in, toxic vinyl (PVC). Mod Green Pod returns to a rich tradition of artisan quality hand silk-screened wallpapers without employing vinyl. They use a water-based, non-toxic inks in their silk-screening method. A non-toxic, water-based glaze makes the wallpapers sponge wipeable.
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