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'Pocket Library': Book Storage for Small Places, by Ariel Jacubovich
From our great archive of ideas that show less is more you get it: we love small spaces. Especially important in times of economic stress, they make us think about what we really need, give maximum usage to what we have, and
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Plug and Live System: 18 Boxes from Brazil to Argentina, from Waste to Art
Argentinean architects Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi took 18 wood boxes that were waste from the Brazilian automobile industry and transformed them into the Plug and Live System: a collection of modules to build
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Public Transit: Buenos Aires Could Welcome Metrobus System next May
(Photo: Metrobus in Mexico city. By World Resources Institute.) With the goal of improving public transit in the city, Buenos Aires could have its first bus rapid transit system, also referred to as 'Metrobus', in May 2009.
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Ban Against Plastic Bags: Buenos Aires Province Joins
(Photo: s2art.) The government of Buenos Aires province (a territory separate from Buenos Aires city but accounting for about 37% of the country population) has approved a law to ban shops and supermarkets to give polyethylene plastic bags in its
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A Train to Cross all South America? Venezuela Wants to Push the Idea Forward
(Photo: sonofgroucho.) At the beginning of August, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his colleagues from Argentina and Brazil spoke about Latin American integration and Chavez threw an ambitious idea out: a train that would connect Venezuela's
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Argentine Law Could Fight Sweatshop Labor
The Argentine government is pushing a new law that, they say, will help regularize the situation of workers from the textile
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Buenos Aires Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2009
(Picture: Juana de Arco's show at the Buenos Aires fashion week. Via event's website.) The latest edition of the Buenos Aires Fashion Week (which took place from August 20 to 21) showed more environmental awareness than its predecessor, the winter
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New Air and Noise Control Devices Promise Better Life-Quality in Buenos Aires
Seems the Buenos Aires government is busy with environmental control. After announcing a new garbage management plan and reaching to an agreement to take out 40 thousand billboards from the streets of Buenos Aires, it has just put to work 42 new
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Buenos Aires to Remove 40 Thousand Billboards to Fight Visual Pollution
(Photo: alex-s.) The Buenos Aires government and a group of advertising associations have agreed to remove 40 thousand billboards that are infracting the city's code, Clarin newspaper informed. This represents about 60% of the total amount of
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Hybrid electric bus with Argentine technology to hit Buenos Aires this December
Hybrid vehicles are not widely available in Argentina yet, but the country's capital will have its first hybrid electric bus with national technology and auto-parts this December.
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New Garbage Management Plans for Buenos Aires to Involve Cartoneros
(Picture: Cartoneros in Buenos Aires. Credit: dandeluca.) After trying two different garbage separation and recycling plans that didn't work, the Buenos Aires government is finally launching a new plan that involves cartoneros: a group of people that
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Argentine Glacier (Perito Moreno) Breaks in Winter for the First Time Ever
(Picture: Santa Cruz tourism office via La Nacion newspaper.) The Perito Moreno is one in a group of 48 glaciers located in the Andes, near the limits between Santa Cruz province and the Chilean frontier. Its break is a periodic event caused by the
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Low Cost Energy Efficient Home for Families in Need, Project in Argentina
Our previously featured Argentine architect Carlos Levinton has just finished his latest project: a construction and home improvements project to reduce energy consume and improve the life quality of a number of families in a poor neighborhood in
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Solar Jacket and Tech Clothes, by Indarra DTX in Argentina
(Photo: courtesy of the firm.) Indarra DTX is a small design firm based in Buenos Aires that's experimenting with technologies applied to fabrics and different kinds of materials in modern clothing.
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Anti-Plastic Bag Campaign, now in Buenos Aires
A small communication firm called El Viaje de Odiseo has started Buenos Aires' first informal campaign to promote reusable bags and reject plastic ones (used extensively everywhere in this city and usually in large quantities since they're thin and
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Art Exhibit and Festival See off Earth Week in Buenos Aires
(Picture: one of the art pieces at the exhibit. National pride, by Angles Alvarez Colombo.) In the first year Earth Day (April 22) has gained some notice in Argentina, late celebrations continued during the weekend in the country’s capital. On Friday,
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Green at Puro Diseno Fair 2008, Buenos Aires (Part II)
Buenos Aires biggest annual design fair (Puro Diseno) took place from April 8 to 13, and yesterday we showed you the first part of our coverage on the presence of green in the event.
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Green at Puro Diseno Fair 2008, Buenos Aires (Part I)
From April 8 to 13, Buenos Aires had its biggest annual design fair, Puro Diseno. And as we announced last week, we were glad to see a lot more green design expressions than last year.
