Tag: One Planet Living - Page 3
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ETech 2009: Eco Cities Are Already Here, We Just Need to Cut & Paste
Here's an interesting question: If you could cut-and-paste anything into or out of your city, what would it be? In designing the eco-cities that we have to create in order to survive on this planet, we get to ask this question,
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ETech 2009: Population Boom, Wealth, and 6 Ways to Stave Off Environmental Collapse (Video)
As the developing world increases in both population and prosperity, we face an impending global meltdown. Why? Because they're emulating the Western world, specifically Americans, and we've set a really bad example for how to
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Allan Chochinov's 10 Steps for Sustainable Design
Allan Chochinov, editor-in-chief at Core 77, was a speaker at Compostmodern on Saturday, and presented some great steps for designers. He calls them "Denting an Impossible Design Problem in 10 Sustainable Steps."
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Michel Gelobter on Designing Our Way Out of Global Warming (Video)
Michel Gelobter is a climate strategist, founder of Cooler, and is a big name in activism for global climate solutions. He was also a speaker at Compostmodern on Saturday. Click through to hear what he has to say about the policymakers in Washington,
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Joel Makower Says We Have Just 5,000 More Days (Video)
At Compostmodern, Joel Makower stressed the importance of designing differently by noting that we have just 5,000 days to completely change the way we operate in this world. Click through to watch the video.
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Eames Demetrios Discusses Looking Beyond Sustainability (Video)
Compostmodern kicked off on Saturday. In case you missed our previous excitement about the event, Compostmodern is a conference bringing together the best minds in sustainable design to inspire those working in the industry to switch up how they create
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Researchers Say Hippy Reasons for Living Sustainably Beat Out "Hope for Future"
For many of us, we try to live in sustainable ways because we hope to avert a global climate disaster, because we hope to give our kids a future on a clean earth, and because we hope that what we do will make a positive impact
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John Bielenberg Gives Designers 48 Hours to Change the World (Video)
John Bielenberg has a mission: Change The World. And there is one method that keeps that lofty goal from being mission impossible. Bielenberg formed Project M - a design program that challenges participants to quickly and with little or no resources
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Free NY Event: Buddhism and the Environment
If you're in the New York area and want to hear an interesting talk tonight, we have just the event for you. Our very own Jessica Root is giving a talk about Buddhism and the Low-Impact Living. Read on for event details. The free
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Can Potty Poetry Reduce Wasted TP?
We've all been in bathroom stalls where poetry (at least by a loose definition) has littered the walls. But who'd have thought that poetry in the potty could make you use less toilet paper? A study by the research
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Further Proof of Life on Mars
For awhile now there has been talk of humans becoming the future inhabitants of Mars before the centuries end. With this in mind, recent evidence now shows that Mars may have indeed had life on its surface at some point in
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Humboldt Squid May Become Easy Calamari Thanks to Climate Change
Humbolt Squid May Become Easy Calamari Thanks to Climate Change Just last year we talked about the invasion of Humboldt squid off the California coasts. Over the past 17 years, the aggressive predator has
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What Will You Do If Mt Fuji Erupts?
We mostly tend to think of sustainability in terms of short-term targets, like will there be butter in the supermarket or gas for the car - tomorrow. We wish companies to have CSR reports and countries to abide by global environmental protocols. We
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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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ECOlogical Calendar App Arrives Just In Time for New Year Calendar Hunting
Early last month we let you know that the ECOlogical Calendar, a very cool iPhone app, would be available soon. Well, it's here, and just in time for end-of-year calendar hunting.
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Can You Survive the Heat Death of the Universe?
Environmentalists are known for taking the 'long term' view - our sons' sons' sons' well-being, that kind of thing. This was ok with me until I got strange-tangled up with a physicist, a non-water related one,
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UK's First 'One Planet Borough' Launched
Image credit: Southern Railway London Suburb Announces One Planet Living Plan It's not just their involvement in everything from localized closed-loop paper recycling to decentralized supply chains to massive sustainable housing developments across
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Children Drawings Tell Stories Of Deep Concern For The Environment
Asking kids how they feel about environmental problems can be a wake-up call for many adults. A child's sadness and anger at pollution issues and worries about the future can be deep and profound. Collaborating with well-known manga artists, Japan's
