How to grow your own fresh air...

Today I saw a short film of the remarkable speaker Makal Meattle (New Delhi) about how to grow your own fresh air.

After profound study he and his team discovered that just by using 3 different, very common plants in your house or building, you could provide yourself with enough natural fresh air to live. Even if you would find yourself is a closed bottle, you would still have enough oxigine to survive.

The natural life-saviours are the Oreca plant, the Mother-in-Law plant and the Money plant. Together they can cause amazing results: an increase of human productivity of 20% and a reduction of energy requirements in buildings by 15% because of no need of fresh air.
The importance of these kind of studies is clear, thinking about the 4% increase of energy requirements by the next decade, the fact that 40% of worldwide energy is used in buildings, 60 % of the worlds population will be living in buildings and there is a growing preference of working in airconditioned areas.

Thank you Makal Meattle!

See the full film on TED.COM using this link