We got a lots of good response from last Monday’s topic “10 innovative products working without electricity“. Hence in today’s post, we will continue our “Green” exploration and present you with more Eco and Innovative Designs. They either provide a good solution to save energy, or make a nice utilization of wind/solar power, or helps to purify polluted water, save the trees and reduce the plastic wastes. I am really glad to see more and more those Eco products.

1. SunFlowers, An Electric Garden [link]

These awesome, 12-foot-tall, sunflower-inspired solar panels are part of a permanent (and functional) art installation in Texas.

Massachusetts-based art duo Mags Harries and Lajos Heder were commissioned to design an installation, and the result was SunFlowers, a series of fifteen solar towers that look like flowers. They soak up enough sun during the day to power the on-board LEDs at night, and excess juice goes back into the grid. Everyone wins, including the environment. Suh-weet!

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Today is “Earth Day”, so we go on some “Green Topic” – Recycled Art.

When I talk about recycled art, I am not going that extreme like artist Nick Demarco from California College, to put a sofa filled with rubbish at home.

I still hope the recycled items have decent looking and without weird smell.

Flower Branch made of Toilet rolls [link]

Toilet rolls sprouting spreading branches are hung to create a “forest” hanging on the wall or hanging down from the ceiling. There is a moment when the hanging cut-out-parts start holding their branches and leaves on their own strength.

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