Tag: Taiwan

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  Eco-Art Installations Sprout in a Taiwanese Village

  Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

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  Could Cities Benefit from Small-Scale, Local "Urban Acupuncture" Projects Like This? (Photos)

  Woven from bamboo, this inviting structure transforms an empty lot in busy Taipei into a haven where neighborhood residents can relax and gather over a fire.

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  Recycled Play Structures Bring Joy to Schools in Rural India

  Artist Shilpa Joglekar works with rural communities in India and Taiwan to create much-needed play structures out of natural and recycled materials.

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  Food in Focus at New Wetlands Art Show

  This year's Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project is asking artists to create sculptures using local materials such as oyster shells and bamboo to spark dialogue about healthier ways to produce food in Taiwan.

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  Vincent Callebaut Designs "Bionic Arch"- A Green Skyscraper For Taiwan

  When Jerry wrote about Vincent Callebaut's proposed vertical farm for New York City, he called it a Locavore Wet Dream; I called it one of the silliest, most overwrought jump-the-shark vertical farm ideas ever

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  Ultramarathoners Running 10,000-Kilometer Silk Road Route to Raise Awareness About Water Shortages

  Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the

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  Artists Turn Taiwan Wetland Into Ecofriendly Gallery

  In the remote villages around the Cheng Long Wetlands in Taiwan, engagement with environmental issues is on the rise thanks in part to a community-based program that is turning the wetlands into a 'gallery' for ecofriendly art.

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  Study Shows That If You Shop Daily, You Live Longer

  We have made the case that small fridges make good cities; now a new study indicates that small fridges make healthier people.

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  Integrated "Shopping" Bag In Award-Winning Bicycle

  Whenever my husband asks me to "pick up a couple of bottles of wine" while shopping, I get surly. My favorite bike panniers are, without exception, NOT well equipped to handle heavy, glass bottles that may shift in

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  Potty Trained Pigs Cut Waste Water by 80%

  Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration has announced that, following the success of some trials in 2009, it is looking to have pig breeders 'toilet train' their porkers, in a

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  Experimental Furniture Made from Waste Sugar Cane Fiber Bagasse (Photos)

  We're intrigued by these experimental furniture pieces recently seen on Designboom. Made by Taiwanese design students Chen Wei-Che and Chung Yo-Hsun this chair and table are made from the waste sugarcane fibre bagasse. Now

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  Birth of Adorable Liger Cubs Lands Zoo in Hot Water

  If being adorable was a crime, these liger cubs would clearly be in a great deal of trouble -- but that's not why they were seized recently by authorities in Taiwan. In Taiwan's "World Snake King Education Farm" a lion and a

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  Woman Kills Over 4 Million Mosquitoes, Wins a Prize

  If mosquitoes have nightmares, odds are Huang Yuyen will be making an appearance in them. Yuyen, a pig farmer from Taiwan, may soon find a place in the record books for killing the most winged-bloodsuckers in a month -- over 4

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  Meet Po the Snake: He's Addicted to Cigarettes

  With habitat loss and climate change threatening ecosystems across the world, animals have enough to worry about, but now it seems some are picking up on our unhealthier habits as well. Sure, we've seen alcoholic monkeys tipping back a

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  New Strawberry Crab Discovered Off Coast of Taiwan

  Marine biologists from the National Taiwan Ocean University discovered a new species of crab off the southern Taiwanese coast. With a

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  The Best of Fast Company: BP's Bid to Move Beyond Petroleum, Growing Algae in Abandoned Mines, and a Green Makeover for the Humvee

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next-generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.

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  Jango Flik: The Folding Bike You Can Ride, Push or Stow

  Two years we noticed that Mercedes were selling a cute folding bike. Now it's resurfaced again. Though this time by the name of Jango Flik.

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  Dead People Are Cool: Crematorium Heat Powers Air Conditioning

  Our second crematorium posts in weeks, but this one is a bit more uplifting than Mike's story about unfortunate Canadians breathing dead people soot. In this instance the Taipei Second Funeral Parlor in Taiwan plan to harness waste heat from their