Tag: Boston
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Boston Gardening Initiative to Offer Free ‘TOM-ato’ Plants to Promote Urban Gardening
Boston is hosting a tomato plant giveaway to encourage new urban gardeners.
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No Money? Time Trading Offers an Accessible Alternative
With time trading, people offer services based on an exchange of hours - not money. But it's still economic activity.
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How Does A Building Get To Its Hundredth Birthday? A Look at Fenway Park
By being lovable, durable, Accessible and Serviceable.
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Skoah Skin Care Helps Conquer Vexing Hotel Waste Problem
The Vancouver-based skincare company has teamed up with The Revere in Boston to tackle plastic chaos.
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Boston Metro Area to Get 150 ChargePoint Electric Car Charging Stations
I Wonder What Santa Drives... Coulomb Technologies, the electric vehicle infrastructure company, has announced that it will install 150 'ChargePoint' EV charging stations around the Boston metropolitan area. The money for this comes
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Artists For Humanity Youth Develop Plastic Bag Bar Stools (Photos)
From Artists for Humanity comes an innovative design that turns more than 200 plastic shopping, dry-cleaning or newspaper bags into a colorful plastic bar stool, called
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Too Much Snow? Dumping it in Waterways Is Not the Answer
The Northeastern U.S. has seen more than its fair share of snow this year, and the huge accumulation has
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The Stitching Studio: Beautiful Products With Flawless Fabrics, Helping Refugee Women
Helping refugees from hotspots like Sudan, Bhutan and Iraq that are based in the US with limited language skills and no work is the goal of soon to be launched project The Stitching Studio.
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Top 10 U.S. Cities For Green Job Seekers
Recently, friends and new college graduates have been asking me how they can get into the field of sustainability. When the question has arisen, I have found myself wondering where the green jobs are sprouting. Then,
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MIT Plan to Slash Energy Consumption on Campus Could Save $50 Million
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is partnering with
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Cape Wind Opponents Challenge Project on Constitutional Grounds
First project opponents said Cape Wind would have adverse environmental impacts. Those were
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Cape Wind Opponents Compare It To Boston's "Big Dig" - Claiming Power Twice As Expensive As Planned
So far the claim that Cape Wind will produce electricity at uncompetitive rates is pure speculation, as the final construction bid estimates are not yet in. But that
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From Source to Spigot: Using Art to Illuminate Two Cities' Historical Water Supplies
One city has been drawing its water from springs, streams, and reservoirs in a nearby forest since 375 AD; the other
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Get Set For Earth Hour With Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady
It's shouldn't take a gorgeous super model and her rather handsome NFL husband to convince you to participate in this year's Earth Hour on Saturday, March 27 at 8:30 pm, but it certainly doesn't hurt. From time zone to time zone, the world's citizens
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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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Holding Pattern: What To Do With Stalled Building Projects
What do you do with a building that died? The Boston Globe asked architects to come up with some solutions for stalled projects around town. Höweler + Yoon Architecture suggest turning a stalled Filenes project into a "temporary vertical algae
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Toyota's Solar Wi-Fi Flowers Stalk American Cities
Image via Toyota USA To promote its new 3rd generation Prius, Toyota is planting solar-powered W-Fi flowers in key American cities. These installation-ads give people a place to sit, as well as free wireless internet and a place to plug in a laptop or
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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part Two)
Zipcar has been a game changer, but Robin Chase is already on to other things. The next frontier in transportation is a smart network that has your car, iPhone, GPS, and other gizmos sharing chatter with streetlights, power utilities, your insurance
