Tag: Italy - Page 4
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Nice Shades: Brise Soleil Are Making a Comeback
The sun-breakers favored by Le Corbusier stop the sun before it gets in, and are a nice architectural feature as well.
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Floating Solar Trackers Boost Efficiency and Slash Costs
A system of floating solar trackers, designed for citing in disused quarries and artifical water bodies, costs 20% less than an equivalent land-based system.
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Another Way To Hide The Bed: Put The Works In The Drawer
Notwithstanding what American politicians say, we have much to learn about Europeans. For example, how they adapt and stay put.
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Congestion Charge Is Traffic-Cutting Magic in Milan
Stockholm and London are famous for congestion charging to keep cars out of central districts. Now Milan's heading that direction, with impressive results
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FAIL: BMW Brands Freezing Weather Front in Europe "Cooper"
A freezing front named "Cooper" creates chaos across Europe. Photos from Italy where unusually heavy snow damages olive trees.
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Environmental Disaster Looms Over Wrecked Cruise Ship
The ship is said to be loaded with some 2,380 tons of oil which, as the situation progresses, could very likely be spilled into the pristine, ecologically rich waters near the site of the wreck.
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MegaPhone Amplifies Your iPhone Without Batteries
The old gramaphone horn is updated for the latest technology, sounding good and looking better
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How Organic Farmers and Ethical Consumers are Taking on the Mafia
The mafia's stranglehold on Italy is often taken for granted. But organic farming cooperatives are taking on the mafia and even farming their land.
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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we've talked about traveling on a floating cloud.
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Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest Under Construction in Milan
it looks like one of our vertical farm fantasies, but this is for real
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Solar Cheaper Than Coal by 2013 in Parts of Europe
It's little wonder that the oil- and coal-friendly conservative media is continuing its crusade against solar, and publishing deliberately distorted numbers on the economics of clean energy. (One blog referred to the Solyndra bankruptcy using the
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Water Filtration Meets Fine Art at Venice Biennale
Ayşe Erkmen's 'Plan B.' Photo: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). Water-treatment plants might not seem to have much aesthetic potential. But Turkish sculptor Ayşe Erkmen is making a splash at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the
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Italy Now in Second Place in World Solar PV Rankings
Italy continues to shake things up in solar power. New stats from Gestore dei Servizi Energetici being highlighting by Wind-Works.org show that Italy is now the number two nation in the world for solar photovoltaics. Not much to report beyond the
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Zero Food Scraps Cuisine from Italy Turns Pea Pods into Delicious Finger Food
Image Credit: Lisa Casali Lisa Casali is an environmental risk expert by day, and an eco-food blogger by night. Her passion for cooking got her to think about all the stuff that usually doesn't enter the recipe, such as the outer leaves of artichokes,
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Reaching Past Borders to Protect the Mediterranean
Countries around the Mediterranean have been abuzz in recent weeks over currently thwarted plans to sail a flotilla of ships to run Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip -- an
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Naples Brings In the Army to Take Out the Trash, Again
Naples has a major trash problem, and it's nothing new. The City's sanitation department is heavily influenced by mafia control, and as a result its streets are often littered with uncollected trash, and
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Italy's Rare Bear in Losing Battle Against Extinction
In the forests of Italy's Abruzzo National Park live one of the rarest creatures on Earth: the Marsican brown bear. For the last several decades the species has been on the brink of extinction -- with current estimates putting their
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Robots On Steroids: Recycled Trash Sculptures By Himatic (Photos)
Artists who get creative with so-called "junk" never cease to fascinate us here at TreeHugger, and
