Tag: Buildings - Page 9
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An Unusual Use for Scissors in New Delhi
We have a riddle for you, what is big, boxy, trendy, and makes use of more scissors than you can shake a stick at?
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Natalie Jeremijenko's Urban Space Station (Part Two)
Photo: Mark Mahaney The Rhinoceros Beetle is the world's strongest animal, able to lift more than thirty times its own weight. To Natalie Jeremijenko, this sounded like an invitation to wrestle. Via some clever technology (she is an engineer, after
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Trend Watch: New Skins on Old Icons
It's not for nothing that
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Pam Dorr Builds Sustainable Homes for $20k
Pam Dorr of Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization, or HERO, and John Bielenberg of Project M spoke together this weekend at Compostmodern, presenting a bit about what their projects are about. We recently talked about the amazing, fast-paced
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Natalie Jeremijenko's Urban Space Station (Part One)
Photo: Mark Mahaney If I were in Manhattan, my visit to the Environmental Health Clinic might involve a session afloat Dr. Jeremijenko's raft/office on the East River. Under the circumstances, she treated me over Skype, checking my toxics and
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Efficient Superhome from a Victorian Townhouse: The Nottingham Ecohome
Victorian Home Retrofit Cuts Emissions 38 Fold Green building is a vital tool in our quest for a sustainable future - but while sleek, modern ecohomes make headlines, the question still remains as to what to do with our existing, inefficient housing
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Quote of the Day: Obama on Why Fixing Buildings is Important
President Obama in his press conference Monday night:
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Will Allen's Innovative Aquaculture System Insprires Commercial Application
Will Allen has received a lot of recognition lately. The Milwaukee resident was named a MacArthur genius, and he came in fourth in the voting to become the White House
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At Philips, IT and Lighting Worlds Collide
TVs are the only technology making a big switch. As we head towards more advanced lighting - such as solid state lighting and energy harvesting for powering LED and OLED lights - the industries of lighting and IT collide, in a good
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How to Go Green: Alternative Energy
Photo credit: Manfred Steinbach/iStock Alternative energy sources Powering and heating your home with alternative energy sources sounds like a no-brainer when it comes to going green, but deciding which kind of fuel is right for you isn't as simple.
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Garden Museum is Renamed and Re-done
It used to be called the Museum of Garden History, now it's the Garden Museum. And it used to be a shabby, down-at-the-heels space, carved out of the ground floor of a former church. And now it is a "wow": renovated by London architects Dow Jones.
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Seeger, Van Jones Embrace the Way of the Gun
If you watched the inauguration, you noticed the steady stream of old-timers who did their bit on the stage; at one point, I half-expected The Who to get up there and rip off a chorus of "Degeneration" to scattered applause.
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Ecologist Josh Donlan on Bringing Sexy Animals Back via "Rewilding"
Josh Donlan wants conservation biology to have teeth. He's at the forefront of a hot new discipline called REWILDING. If he has his way, the bump in the night might be a lion or cheetah stalking you for dinner, and deer
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Gaia, Asheville's First Green Community Weathers the Economic Downturn
You can't help but to love Asheville, an eco-fabulous haven tucked into the picturesque mountains that consume the western portion of North Carolina. Recent construction in and around the community, however, has begun to cloud the
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Recycled Hotel Rooms from Wine Barrels for the Oenophile
Today's special is for the wine lovers among us: it is a hotel in Stavoren, a very old port in northern Holland. The rooms where you sleep are in 15,000 litre wine barrels. There are four of them, each created from Swiss drums that used to contain
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World's First LEED Platinum Aviation Hangar Completed
Quite possibly the coolest aviation hangar on the planet, Hangar 25 of the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California is certainly the greenest. Shangri-La Construction will introduce its inaugural project this morning, and will get to
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Book Review: Your Eco-Friendly Home
I have to be honest, when I first picked up the book, I inwardly sighed and thought "not another how to go green book." But, I have to take that back because I was refreshingly surprised with the insights Sid Davis offers in
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Iconic Boston Building Gets an LED Make-Over
We talk a lot about the breakthroughs in LED lighting. Well, take note that the new technology is getting put to good use.
