Tag: South Korea - Page 2
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South-Korea to Invest $8.2B In Massive Offshore Wind Farms
Image: Creative Commons You Don't Need a Weatherman... If there's one thing that South-Korea has a lot of, it's coastlines. Offshore wind power is a great fit for the country, which is probably why the government and private companies have decided to
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India, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea All Soon Clobbering the US on Renewable Energy
Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to
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Xylophone Bridge: Seoul's Interactive Music-Making Bike Path
From recycled dividers to DIY 'contrails' and contraflow bike lanes, the bike path is something that is constantly evolving. In collaboration with the Seoul Design Foundation, this year's Seoul Cycle Design Competition offers a Pavlovian take of
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Designing Their Way Out of a Dam Mess
From educating people about food miles and food security to encouraging them to use less paper, the Korean group Slowalk puts its graphic-design skills in the service of do-gooder causes. The
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Rare Glimpse at the Wild Nature Inside Korea's DMZ
Environmentalists cheered the March announcement that North Korea and South Korea would work together to create an ecological corridor out of the Korean Demilitarized
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Battlefield Battery Can Be Powered With Pee
In the quest for alternative, small-scale energy producing technology, one company has invented a device that can power electronics with something you've been just flushing down the toilet all this time--your pee. The
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Korea's DMZ Will Soon Be Open For Ecotourism
In 1953, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was established to provide a buffer between the conflicting Northern and Southern nations--and today it is the most heavily militarized border in the world. But amid this icon of
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28 South Korean Universities Sign Green MOU
The Presidents of 28 South Korean Universities this week all signed MOU's declaring their intention to make campuses around the country more green and eco-friendly, reports the Korea Herald. Fortunately, there are
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The Incheon International Design Award 2009
The Korean city of Incheon and designboom have linked up to create a design competition that covers a broad swath of sustainable subject matter. The Incheon International Design Awards are open to anyone, and the three categories (green design for
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Global Car Survey Finds Six In Ten Say Green Is The New Dream
Global market research firm Synovate has released a study showing that six in ten people "would choose to buy a green car over a dream car, even if money was no object."
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Food Crisis: "Today It's Oil, In Ten Or Fifteen Years, Food"
We read in Financial Times this week that we may be heading for a new global food crisis. Of course that depends on where you live, and where you get your food. How are we doing, dear readers...? Should we be
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50 Million Acres in Africa Snapped Up in 'Massive Neocolonial Grab'
Every couple of months the spectre of neo-colonialism in Africa raises its hideous form in the context of land being taken by foreign countries for food or biofuel production. Relating an article from Business Week,
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South Korea To Build World's Longest Superconductor Electric Distribution System
It will only be a half mile long, but Korea Electric Power Corp has taken the first step in building what will be the world's current longest . To do so they have placed the world's largest order for high temperature
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Cut Your Carbon Emissions in Half Overnight: Move to the City
While cities certainly use a lot of energy in a concentrated area, the per capita emissions of their residents are often well below national averages, a
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Canada Ships Recyclables to China and then Ships Them Back Again
We've reported in the past how the US and others ship waste (especially e-waste) to China for demolition and recycling. Add Canada to that list, who shipped over 20,000 tonnes of mixed paper each year for the last two years,
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Dear Mr. President, Why No Secretary Of The Environment?
Back in November, 2008, we asked why the United States still has no Department of the
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Ultracapacitors Getting Tested on South Korea's Subways
When I was little, my sister and I would wake up super early on Christmas morning and sit impatiently in our beds waiting for our parents to wake up. By about 6 am, we'd poke our heads out of our bedroom door and
