Tag: Norway
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Philippines Mining Activist Awarded Goldman Environmental Prize for Stopping Norwegian-owned Nickel Mine
Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island
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Gorgeous Norwegian Outdoor Fireplace Combines Reuse with Local Traditions
Simple but effective, this lovely structure uses salvaged materials in a way that's inspired by old Norwegian turf huts.
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Prefab, Glue Laminated Timber Ribs Form This Inspiring "Low-Energy" Library
This Norwegian library is a lovely specimen of engineered wood arrayed in a rib-like concept.
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Why Can't Our Public Toilets Be Like The Ones They Build In Norway?
It is about time that we recognized that every form of building is architecture and deserves attention and care.
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Woody35 Cabin: 350 Square Feet Never Felt So Big
The Tardis of Cabins, it feels so much bigger than it is
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The Architecture of Necessity: Talking to Andreas Gjertsen of Tyin Tegnestue (Video)
Over the last few weeks we've been writing about the amazing sustainable design work that went on at the WOMAD festival this summer, in the UK. Peter Gabriel's DJ Booth
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xbo Mobile Unit Sticks Is A Minimalist Classic
One of the wonderful things about Architizer, the " open community created by architects for architects", is that so many projects turn up that one may have missed the first time around. A good example is the
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Global Oil Consumption Hit Record High in 2010 - Demand Outpaces Supply Increases By One-Third
Some illuminating new stats on global oil production, consumption, and the shifting landscape of oil producing nations: Upstream Online reports that global oil consumption was up in 2010, bucking the trend for
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Norway's Doomsday Seed Vault Has Third Anniversary, Welcomes Thousands of New Deposits
The Doomsday Seed Vault (more
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Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All
Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan,
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Playing Megadeth Song Saves Boy From Wolf Attack
Despite being an endangered species, wolves in Norway face serious threats from gun-totting farmers looking to protect their livestock by way of a bullet -- but it turns out that another kind
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High-Tech Hidden Cameras Film Polar Bears Close Up
Trying to get up close and personal with the world's largest land carnivore can be a tricky, and dangerous, endeavor. Even some of the hardy high-tech cameras the BBC dispatched to the frigid reaches of Norway
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"Rolling Master Plan" Is Coolest Prize Winner in Competition
It is often the case that the most interesting and innovative entry in a competition comes in second or third, while the more practical and realistic entry wins. That appears to have happened in a recent competition
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Climbing a Tree Every Day for a Year. With Interesting People.
We like trees here at TreeHugger. And we like to do interviews too. So it's only natural that UpTrees caught my eye. It's a project by Norwegian Henrik G. Dahle, an artist and "social engineer", who has decided to climb a tree
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In Norway, a Landscape Hotel Surrounds Its Guests with Nature, But It's No Cheap Trip
The Juvet Landscape Hotel in Gudbrandsjuvet, Norway is accurately named. Its seven rooms (each a separate building) offer spectacular views of the surrounding area: mountains, streams, valleys, and, no
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More Nations Pricing Biodiversity: India & Norway Will Publish Natural Wealth Account Data
Slowly, the notion that all those ecosystem services like mangroves protecting coastal towns from hurricanes, rainforests helping bring more rain, and trees scrubbing away air pollution, are actually worth something
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Norway to Ship Iron Ore Across Arctic to China - First Non-Russian Carrier to Use Northeast Passage
With both the northwest and northeast passages open thanks to Arctic ice melting due to climate change, it was only a matter of time before this happened: For the first time a non-Russian flagged commercial bulk carrier will
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TYIN Tegnestue - Rustic Yet Sleekly Modern Humanitarian Architecture (Photos)
A few weeks ago I was walking around the WOMAD festival munching on Riverford Organic brownies and sipping from a Frank Water refillable bottle when I stumbled across the Roots Architecture camp and was immediately struck by the beauty
