Tag: Construction - Page 5
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Celebrate Earth Day with Leonardo DiCaprio via eBay
Photo by squarehippies If you've ever tried to figure out how to support important projects like green schools while combating climate change AND meet a movie star all while shopping online, wonder no more. eBay and Global Green USA is holding an
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Architecture For Humanity UK Completes First New Build Project in London
A few weeks ago, just in time for Architecture For Humanity's 10th birthday celebrations and before Cameron Sinclair brought his verbal whirlwind to London, AFH's UK chapter rather quietly completed their first
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miniHome Hitting California - Get Your Perfectly Petite Prefab Here
The miniHome is one of our favorite tiny house designs and we've watched it continually evolve over the last few years. Sustain was at a workshop this week in San Francisco held in conjunction with Dwell, where Andy Thomson and Trevor McIvor presented
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Cool Green Job Watch: Green Renovations
What a great sign, what great marketing; laying out for all to see what you are doing inside. It is another entry in our Light at the End of the Tunnel Dept: the kind of business that gets people working on sustainable, valuable jobs. Nobody puts up
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Le Corbusier's Summer Cottage is Reconstructed
One day in 1951, Le Corbusier sat down and in 45 minutes designed a summer cottage as a birthday present for his wife. Called Cabanon, it was built beside the sea, near Nice, France, where he ultimately drowned ten years later. Now its actual
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On Strike Over Battered Fisheries in Bahrain
Grouper, mackerel, and other local fish are off the menu indefinitely in many Bahrani households, as almost 1,700 of the Gulf state's
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Kinder, Gentler Demolition: A Bright Idea from Japan
The implosion of a Las Vegas hotel is, like everything else in Sin City, a spectacle, with fireworks, multi-story countdown lights, crowds gathered to watch, and a big, cool
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Pre-Fab Paper House for Sale
A new paper house has been developed that can be used for people in disaster areas, the urban poor and refugees. The Swiss inventor says that the "the number of migrants, refugees living in improvised housing, is going to grow with
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Got a Good Off-Grid Story?
As the world seems to spin at an increasingly fast pace, there are also increasingly more stories of folks opting to "take it down a notch", slow down, and choose simpler pursuits. Author Nick Rosen has taken on the task of
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The TH Interview: Stacey Frost of Urban Re:Vision
"A block is to the city as a cell is to the human body." Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, she became
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London's Lost Rivers to be Restored
We all know about the Thames--the ancient river flowing through the heart of London. But there are many more "lost rivers" which have been built over, buried , covered or turned into concrete channels throughout the years. London has
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New Cement Eats CO2 - Fights Global Warming
Cement: From Carbon Source to Carbon Sink? Lloyd has written before about cement as "the unheralded polluter" - in fact some estimates suggest that cement manufacture may be responsible for more global greenhouse emissions than the entire aviation
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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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ReIY: Building Material Reuse Centers for the UK
Image Credit: Hyder Consulting Construction Waste Diverted from Landfill Walk past your nearest construction site, and chances are you'll see piles of materials that may or may not make it into the final building. As with many industries, the level of
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Re:Visioning Urbanism: Sustainable City Block to Rise out of Parking Lot Behind Dallas City Hall
After a full year of design competitions aimed at stimulating discussion about the nature of sustainability in cities, San
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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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Daniel Libeskind Goes Green and Somewhat Restrained
Like every New York tower that is not yet up to the third floor, Daniel Libeskind's new 54 storey tower at One Madison Avenue will probably never see the light of day. Too bad; unlike so many of his other buildings, it has some green features and a few
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part Two)
In part two of our interview with the author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, we continue our tour of the coolest, most promising, and most necessary green technologies alive today. Get ready for electric cars, carbon capture, and (I know it's
