Tag: Singapore

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  Huge Biomimetic 'Supertrees' Taking Root on Singapore's Waterfront (Video)

  These towering, tree-like vertical garden structures are designed to collect sunlight, water, regulate temperatures and "breathe" for the buildings below.

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  Quirky Portraits of People and Their Dustbins Call Attention to Singapore Landfill

  The otherwise cheery photographs have a poignant tale to tell.

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  Urban River Restoration Transforms Singapore Park

  One of Singapore's most popular parks has been transformed into a dynamic natural ecosystem with the restoration of a previously channelized river, creating new recreation opportunities while protecting the city from flooding.

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  Portable Kitchen Can Store In A Drawer

  Clever idea uses "memory alloys" to take up less space.

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  Climate News Recap: Climate Scientists Get A Legal Defense Fund; Warming to Both Help & Hurt UK; More

  Plus, spewing sulfate into sky to stop warming won't fully work (redux); what Singapore's doing to make sure sea level rise doesn't swamp their city. Here's what caught our eye this morning.

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  Singapore Tops List of Asia's Greenest Cities - Karachi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hanoi, Manila At Bottom

  Ranking the greenest city anywhere is a complex thing, with so many factors playing a role, but nevertheless various people always try: In the latest effort by Siemens (and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit) to rank

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  Study Shows That Energy Use Can Be Cut In Half With Individual Controls

  A new study from the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California, Berkeley, confirms what everyone probably knew intuitively: If you give people control of their own

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  Sewage-to-Drinking Water System Readied for Luxury Singapore Resort Island

  Now this is extreme water recycling: Dallas, Texas-based Global Water Group has installed its first sewage-to-drinking water system on the Singaporean island of Pulau Seringat, Greentech Media reports. Originally

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  Enlightened Mosques Switch to Energy-Saving Lights

  Above the thick patterned carpets and below the soaring domes of many mosques, circles of small hanging lights spiral overhead, illuminating often dim interiors with a star-like glow.

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  12 Hip Green Hostels Around the Globe

  Fancy spending some time on an organic farm, practicing yoga and taking long walks through the hills? Or would you rather stay in an art-filled old downtown warehouse, and

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  Singapore's Park in the Sky

  Flickr: alner s Move Over High Line Singapore's Telok Blangah Hill Park is a dreamscape for city-bound nature lovers. A sleek fly-over infrastructure of bridges and platforms elevates visitors above the forest floor to give them a "monkey perspective,"

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  With Green Roof, Nanyang University School of Art Tries to Disappear

  I noted in an earlier post on Zaha Hadid's design museum in Seoul: Green roofs are wonderful things, and they are introducing a whole new design aesthetic where roof meets grade, and a

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  World Population Growth Good News: Asia-Pacific Fertility Rates Starting to Decline

  Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face. At the

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  7 Hidden Eco-gems: Under-the-Radar Cities Worth a Visit

  Scenes from Malmö, Sweden -- a hidden green city gem -- Björn Söderqvist @ flickr. Portland, San Francisco, and New York. These three cities consistently rise to the top of U.S. and even global lists of great green cities. And while these cities,

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  Happy Trails: Green Travel Blogs Pick Their Top Eco Destinations

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  Singapore's Biodiversity Could Provide Potential Cures

  With a paltry 5 percent of its land officially allocated to nature—and that's including golf courses—Singapore isn't exactly heralded as a hotbed of biodiversity. A local drug-discovery company, however, begs to

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  Economics of Scale

  The quotes below, pulled from an news article, may hint as to why the Australian government sees having about 1,400 defence force personnel in Iraq as vital to the country's national security. That's roughly 0.7% of the total troop numbers. (When