Trees are so 2010. This is 2011 and yesterday’s old-fashioned foliage has been replaced by Treepods. That’s right. Trees are out, Treepods are in.
Trees are so 2010. This is 2011 and yesterday’s old-fashioned foliage has been replaced by Treepods. That’s right. Trees are out, Treepods are in.
Gizmag.com has the anti-foliage facts:
[A]n initiative from Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico of the Influx Studio in Paris, working with SHIFTboston, is looking to roll out a man-made forest of air-cleaning Treepods throughout Boston … which are powered by solar and kinetic energy.
I think that I shall never see, God, a poem lovely as a Treepod (perhaps our best photo caption EVER)
SHIFTboston is an incentive aimed at focusing new, exciting, innovative and environmentally responsible ideas to transform Boston into a more dynamic city. Hoping to help the city of Boston reduce its carbon dioxide, Caceres and Canonico from Influx Studio in Paris have come up with what they describe as a CO2-scrubbing living machine called Treepods, that is said to “embody and artificially enhance the capacity of trees to clean the air.”
The carbon dioxide removal process used by Treepods is based on technology developed by Dr Klaus Lackner, director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University. It enables the energy-efficient capture of carbon dioxide from air. He was inspired by his daughter’s prize-winning 8th grade project which successfully extracted carbon dioxide from the air using a fish tank pump and a battery, and proceeded to create a machine which cleansed the air like a living tree.
Columbia University, the city of Boston and the French. Why are we not surprised that the concept of replacing real trees with ugly, expensive, artificial ones comes from that unholy alliance?
We say it’s a sooper dooper idea. In fact, let’s start bulldozing the Amazon rainforest and installing a bunch of Treepods. Why wait? Let’s start now.
