Tag: Belgium
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Best explanation of the Passive House ever. (Mildly NSFW)
The Belgian Passive House Platform tells all, in French with subtitles.
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400 Foot Long Badboot Floating Pool in Antwerp Is A Flash From The Past
Rem Koolhaas once described a floating pool designed by Russian Constructivists. Is it finally being built?
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Finally, LED fixtures that combine good looks and performance.
Using cooling fins as a decorative feature instead of a technical necessity.
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Art Installation Uses 55,000 LEDs To Create Psychedelic Cathedral of Light (Video)
One city's annual festival of lights turns to energy-efficient LEDs to create this breathtaking structure.
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Will Belgium Abandon Nuclear Power Too?
Belgian politicians are the latest to consider a phase out of nuclear power. Is this a good thing?
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Worn Again Equip Eurostar Staff With Upcycled Bags Made From Their Old Uniforms
Good news today as another sustainable design concept becomes reality. Upcycling company Worn Again have equipped 250 Eurostar train managers with some rather smart bags made from old staff uniforms. It's been a long journey
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Massive Solar Tunnel Gives Trains a Boost (Video)
The 2 gigantic solar farms just launched in France are part of a much wider push for large-scale solar and renewables going on in Europe right now. In fact, the same company responsible for these farms has today unveiled a huge
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Solar Airplane Embodies "Use Less and Live Better" at Green Week 2011
As the biggest annual conference on European environmental policy convenes this week in Brussels, the solar airplane Solar Impulse HB-SIA features as the embodiment of the conference theme "Use Less and Live Better." After
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London Design Festival 2010: Buzzispace, Cosy Recycled Space Dividers for Home and Office
As people's ways of working change, so do the places we work at. Teleworking, more collaborative work, easier communication and increased flexibility are demanding a change in the furniture of our workspaces and offices. But
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Water Tower Repurposed Into House With Lots Of Stairs
A landmark water tower in the Belgian village of Steenokkerzeel has demonstrated again that almost any structure can be repurposed; in this case it has been converted into a
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Belgian Undertakers Want to Dissolve & Flush Dead Into Sewers
A group of undertakers in Belgium are proposing a more ecological (but perhaps creepier) alternative to cremation: they hope to dissolve corpses in a caustic solution and flush the resulting liquid and ashes down the drain, which will be
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Lessons From Apartment Therapy's Small, Cool Kitchen Competition
Apartment Therapy runs the small, cool contests every year, including one for kitchens; cleverly, they break it into categories including owning (American kitchens where people go nuts) renting (where people have more limited options) and international
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Got Allergies? Your Pool Might Be to Blame
According to a recent study teenagers who spend more than 100 hours in chlorinated swimming pools have a six time higher chance of getting asthma and allergies, reports Yahoo! News. For some people, particularly kids,
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Flaxen Beauties: Professional Racing Bikes Made of Flax Fiber
Image: Museeuw Bikes) Finally, a bike made of linoleum. Indeed, flax, from which traditional linoleum is made, is the secret ingredient in the polymer smoothie that makes these ultra-high performance bicycles. Johan Museeuw, the retired Belgian racer and
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The Museum of Old Techniques
TreeHugger often notes that, notwithstanding our love of technology, sometimes the older, slower, simpler ways of doing things, like growing your own food or riding a bike, are better than the high tech processed stuff or hydrogen cars. Now we find
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World's First Wind & Solar Powered Antarctic Research Station Officially Opened
In Antarctica on Sunday the world's first "zero emission research station" was officially opened: The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. Commissioned in 2004 by the Belgian government, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (sounds like a hotel, doesn't
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What the World Needs Now Is Square Trees
Belgian design collective Draw Me A Sheep notes: 'Round' is perfect in nature, but 'square' is perfect for industrial standard. To illustrate, square tree would enable wood industry to lose less material, to cut easier with machines and to
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Sumatra's Remaining Forests Get Government Pledge of Protection
We may be squandering our children's natural inheritance, losing up to $5 trillion a year in natural capital, by chopping down the world's forests, but the Indonesian government has finally done something to stop the
