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Sheila Kennedy and the Portable Light Project
Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is woven into the
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The Open Source House Project, Sharing Eco-Affordable Housing Solutions (Video)
Affordable and sustainable housing for urban, low-income areas is much needed all around the world. In order to improve the overall quality of life in these places, architect Vincent van der Meulen together with Enviu, the Dutch organisation behind the
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Dieter Rams and His Design Ethos at the Design Museum
"Question everything generally thought to be obvious." That's the motto of Dieter Rams. You may not know his name but you have probably owned something that he designed--he was the former head of design at Braun for forty
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The Best of Fast Company: Jellyfish-Infused Space Candy, Household Upcycled Robots, and a High Line for San Francisco
This week at Fast Company, Japanese students crush up invasive jellyfish into candy, Adoptabot upcycled robots make great pets, architects propose a High Line for San Francisco, and PNC Bank finishes the largest green living wall in North
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Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
Back when we had Emily Pilloton on TreeHugger Radio, she got us all excited about the book she was working on. Now it's here. Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People (available from Amazon and Project H) is both visually stimulating and
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Design to Improve Life: The 2009 Index Award Winners
Funded by the Danish government, the Index design award claims to be the biggest in the world, and "improving life" is the name of the game. In the buildup to the announcement of the 2009 winners' circle we've posted on entrants such as the Bambulance,
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Copenhagen Design Week: Prelude to COP15
A stylish chair of recycled paper, tree-free paper, mobile "pocket parks," and an air purification sculpture of Korean oak. With a focus on sustainable design, Copenhagen Design Week
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The Bambulance Goes Where the Ambulance Can't
(Images: Design for Development) The Index Award claims to be the largest design prize out there. Funded by the Danish government, Index shells out 500,000 Euros each year to the winning designers who have creatively demonstrated "Design to Improve
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Eco-Rally to Transverse America
Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start
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Live Local: Finally, a Social Networking Website With Purpose
Live Local is the digital equivalent of hanging over the fence and chin wagging with your neighbour, sharing stories about what's worked for you and what hasn't.
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Dwell on Design Conference: Dispatch from Day One
Gorgeous green homewares, scintillating sustainability forums, abfab prefab displays, green designs and architecture are the focus at "dwell on design," dwell magazine's fourth
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Pawlyn Astonishes Lomborg with Economics of Biomimicry + Restorative Design (VIDEO 3 of 3)
The diligence with which the Exploration team did their research for Michael Pawlyn's debate with Lomborg comes into full effect in this third and final part of the presentation at the British Council for Offices 2009 conference which took place in
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Pawlyn Continues to Amaze Lomborg With Power of Biomimicry + Restorative Design (VIDEO 2 of 3)
In Part 1 of Michael Pawlyn's presentation debate with Bjorn Lomborg at the British Council for Offices 2009 conference, he sets out to dismantle Lomborg's theory that it's impossible to cut carbon emissions and save money. Pawlyn makes a clear and
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Lomborg Caught off Guard by Pawlyn's Robust Argument for Restorative Design (VIDEO 1 of 3)
As you can imagine TreeHugger is always keen to hear of someone taking influential climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg down a peg or two, whether it's Stephen Colbert or Joe Romm or, as happened most recently, the British architect Michael Pawlyn of
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GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods
During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company working hard to promote responsible forestry
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Should the Hydrogen Highway Be Put Out Of Its Misery?
Hydrogen has had its ups and downs in the transportation biz. A few years ago America was going to build hydrogen highways; now President Obama has pulled the plug on it. Smart move?
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Win a Prius: Pledge to do One Thing That's Green Sweepstakes
Okay, we checked the fine print and it seems legit. JetBlue is spearheading this green sweepstakes for the grand prize of a 3rd Generation Toyota Prius along with some other very cool eco prizes. Seems easy enough to click over to the website and make
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Microsoft MSDN Goes Loband
Anyone who has tinkered under the hood of a Windows machine is fully appreciative of the Microsoft Developer's Network (MSDN), a clearinghouse of information for all Microsoft products. Recently - and perhaps through a little
