Tag: Colombia
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Let's Learn From Medellín, Colombia’s Sustainable Transportation Capital!
Medellín has a great sustainable transportation vision for the future, and so far they seem to be executing it extremely well.
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Medellin to Build Massive 46-Miles Urban Park Surrounding the City
The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.
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Wooden Wall Picture Expands into Dining Table in Colombian Design
In a pretty self-explanatory piece, Bogota-based Unodot studio executes a simple useful idea for small spaces.
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Chiquita Bananas Joins Other Major Brands, Pledges to Avoid Oil from Tar Sands
Chiquita Bananas becomes the latest major brand to avoid tar sands fuel. But will it really help?
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Colombian Studio Shows How to Build Awesome, Cheap Furniture with Pipes, Wood and Wire
In this open source design project, Dos Uno shares cool, easy to make designs for chairs, tables and shelves using cheap readily available materials.
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Bioclimatic No Walls House In Northern Colombia Is Caribbean Paradise
World-renowned for their work in Medellin, especially for the Orchid House at the Botanical Garden, Colombian firm Plan B Architects is busy and keeps coming up with great projects.
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Bogota's Amazing Bus Rapid Transit Keeps Getting Better (Video)
Moving 1.7 People Every Single Day!This is how bus rapid transit (BRT) should be! TransMilenio's 104 stations allow the citizens of Bogota (in Colombia) to get to work, move around the city, run errands... All of that very conveniently and quickly -
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The Environmental Impact of Cocaine
Whenever we talk about the production of cocaine fueling rainforest destruction, or the electricity consumption of indoor marijuana growing, many commenters decry that it is prohibition that causes these negative impacts, not the drug itself. There is,
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Bogota's Amazing Bikeways! (Video)
A Model for the World This video by our friends at Streetfilms is not only great because it shows us a powerful example of bike infrastructure improving a city, but also because it shows how you can change the perception of riding a bike among citizens
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From World's Drug Capital to Green Oasis: The Incredible Story of Medellin, Colombia (Slideshow)
Medellin, Colombia: This city's name used to strike fear in peoples' hearts. In the 80s and early 90s, it was known as the drug capital of the world and the most violent city on the planet.
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From World's Drug Capital to Green Oasis: The Incredible Story of Medellin, Colombia
Medellin, Colombia: This city's name used to strike fear in peoples' hearts. In the 80s and early 90s, it was known as the drug capital of the world and the most violent city on the planet.But Medellin has come a tremendous distance in less than a decad
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Mushrooms Could Drastically Cut Fertilizer Use in Agriculture
Yesterday Mike reported on the use of mushrooms to break down disposable diapers, and the day before I posted a video of how mushrooms can clean up pollution, kill pests and recycle
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1 Million Hectares of Colombia Underwater - Climate Change Making La Niña More Intense
Record breaking extreme weather isn't just plaguing the Midwest: Colombia has had 5-6 times more rainfall than usual for the past ten months--which has killed 425 people so far, covered 1 million hectares with water, and left 3 million people as what
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Families Sue Chiquita for More Than 4,000 Murders in Colombia
Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than 4,000 Colombians murdered
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When Tree-Planting Goes Bad: Twisted, Misplaced Trees of Death in Colombia
Between 1999 and 2004, there was one death a year due to the falling of trees or branches in Colombia's capital city, Bogota. Though general wisdom says trees are good, this city proves that with poor planning, wrong species in the wrong places, and bad
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When Tree-Planting Goes Bad: Twisted, Misplaced Trees of Death in Colombia (Slideshow)
Between 1999 and 2004, there was one death a year due to the falling of trees or branches in Colombia's capital city, Bogota.
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Stunning Library In Tropical Colombia Has Permeable Rock And Wood Walls
Colombian tropical town Villanueva's popular library is an example of non pretentious architecture gone right. Projected by Alejandro Piñol, Germán Ramírez, Miguel Torres and Carlos Meza, it was built with local materials and
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Stunning Public Kindergarten At Neighborhood In Need In Bogota
Do you know how much of the so-called green or cool architecture is often for expensive hotels, government or office buildings? Well, in this case, it's the complete opposite.
