Environment

Environment can be defined as a sum total of all the living and non-living elements and their effects that influence human life. While all living or biotic elements are animals, plants, forests, fisheries, and birds, non-living or abiotic elements include water, land, sunlight, rocks, and air. There are two different types of environment: Geographical Environment. Man-made Environment.

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Chase The Blues Away

Light boxes have been used for some time to treat “Seasonal Affective Disorder” (SAD), which is a physiological condition brought on by lack of natural sunlight. The affliction is common in geographic areas where winter months are shrouded in almost complete darkness. The light deprivation impacts people with physiological and physiological need for natural sunlight. …

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Pavegen Tiles Harvest Energy from Footsteps

Pavegen tiles harvest energy from footsteps. Designed for use in in high foot-traffic areas, the tiles convert the kinetic energy from footsteps of pedestrians into renewable electricity, which can be stored in a lithium polymer battery or used to power low-wattage, off-grid applications like street lighting, displays, speakers, alarms, signs, and advertising. Each time someone …

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Hobbit House

Simon Dale, with the help of his father in-law, has single-handedly built this low impact Hobbit house in the woodlands of West Wales. The eco-house, which rose from a muddy hole in the ground and took three months to complete, came in at under US $5,000 (GBP3,000) – demonstrating that you don’t need to be …

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