Tag: Italy - Page 6
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Solar Powered, Driverless Cars To Drive 8,000 Miles from Rome to Shanghai
If you're planning on driving from Rome to Shanghai this summer, you might encounter two small, orange cars along the route. Covered with seven cameras and four laser scanners each, they'll
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Melting Glacier in Italy Gets a Giant Thermal Blanket
In hopes of slowing the rate at which ice is melting in the mountains of northern Italy, officials have begun covering one their most threatened glaciers with insulating fabric, creating what is essentially a giant security blanket
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Italy Installing More Solar Power in Two Months Than California Does in a Year
We already knew that Italy was the world's second-largest solar power market in 2009 (the United States was fourth, by the way), but according to a new piece in Wind-works Italy is installing more solar power in two months
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Come On In, The Water's Fine -- Unless You're In Italy
If you're planning to spend some time this summer lazing on the beach and taking refreshing dips in the sea, you might want to consider giving Italy a miss: The country had more coastal bathing sites banned due to poor
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McDonald's Goes A Little Bit McLocal
In January, McDonald's Italy announced the launch of its McItaly menu. The burger giant has always offered different menus throughout the world to cater to local tastes so it's no
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Rome's Trashiest Hotel Built With 12 Tons of Litter
It may look like the perfect vacation getaway for say, Oscar the Grouch, but the first trash-built hotel is attracting some upper-crust, non-muppet clientele. Constructed on the banks of the Tiber in Rome, just across the river
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Sustainable Eating Brings More Pleasure
Now that's what I'm talking about! Only yesterday I was musing over how sustainability has to be more interesting than business as usual if we are going to get out of the mess we have created. So I was delighted to discover an
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Eco-Friendly Hotel Goes Underground in the Alps
Italian architect Matteo Thun, whose Milan-based firm is known for a range of elegant architectural works, attractive interiors and stylish, flexible product designs (like this Transformer couch), has come up with a wonderfully
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Urban EVs Get Cuter! Pininfarina Shows Nido Prototype
A few months before its Bluecar EV is launched, Pininfarina is unveiling another electric car, the Nido EV. It's a smaller urban 2-seater, but it's also a new platform on which other bigger vehicles
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Sparkling Chair Made of PET and Air, Just Like a Water Bottle! by Marcel Wanders
The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels, an inflatable house
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Glowing Tomatoes, Couches to Kick, and More Wacky Green Ideas From the Milan Furniture Fair (Slideshow)
I went to Milan and what did I find? The world of the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 is like no other -- In fact, it's probably the only place in the world where punches are thrown at couches, tomatoes
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What A Difference Design Makes: Ross Lovegrove Reinvents The Sun Tunnel
TreeHugger has been showing light tunnels or solar tubes for years; they are one of those great ideas for bringing natural light into interior spaces, part of the comeback of daylighting.
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: "Eruption" Blanket Predicted Volcano Woes in 2005
I can't get over this blanket by Icelandic knitting factory Vík Prjónsdóttir shown at the Milan Furniture Fair last week. Yes, they
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Stone Houses, Solar Flowers, and More at Interni Think Tank
Rendering of "T-Garden" by Luca Trazzi. Photo via Interni Philippe Starck -- one of the participants in the FuoriSalone 2010 Interni Think Tank exhibition held at the same time as the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 -- is one
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Design Academy Eindhoven is asking questions!
One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven's Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate. With
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Live Bio-resin Performance by Breaded Escalope (Video)
There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that served fresh... bioresin products! The 3 designers
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: A Room Made of Cardboard...Can You Tell?
Cardboard is one of those underrated materials, often with a short and meaningless lifespan that ends when your package is delivered. Unless you are cardboard in the hands of io10design's cardboard fiends
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Saved by Droog (Part II)
We were very curious to see what the 14 designers, invited by Droog to save 5135 items from liquidation sales and other leftovers, came up with at the Milan Furniture Fair. So we hiked out to their temporarily exhibition space
