Tag: Wayback Machine
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Happy Eightieth Birthday, Tennessee Valley Authority
It may be old, dirty and coal powered now, but it was once a vision of a brighter future, was a giant stimulus project and helped win WWII.
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There's nothing new about space-saving design
LifeEdited digs into the archives and finds that people have been designing transformer furniture for years.
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Happy May Day, which used to be green instead of red
How a day originally celebrating fertility and life became International Workers Day and something else in America.
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Passivhaus Precedents: Zero Energy House from 1970s recognized with award
The passive house principles didn't just pop out of thin air, but were based on the work of others before it. But why are some precedents missing in action?
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Living With Less, Frank Lloyd Wright style in the Haynes House
How the great architect (with a great client) squeezed so much into 1411 square feet.
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There's nothing new about streamlined aerodynamic transport trucks
A 1935 proposal would deliver an entire house in a super-slick streamlined package
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Happy Birthday, Futurist Manifesto!
104 years ago today, the futurist manifesto was published in Le Figaro by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
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On this day in TreeHugger....
A look back at this day in TreeHuggers past, from tofu to teflon.
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From rotary to Siri: How the phone numbering system came and went
The fascinating story of how we got the phone numbers we have, and how it may soon be no more.
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Happy Birthday Thomas Alva Edison
We round up some of our best posts about the inventor.
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Folding Bathtub from 1915 Would Make Sense Today
Why take up so much space with a tub when you can just unfurl it when you need it?
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Happy George Orwell Day
Forget squirrels and whatever is happening in Washington, It's an important day to celebrate a great writer.
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More Lessons from Grandma on Green Building and House Design
I'm sorry, but we still have a lot to learn from Grandma and her architect.
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Are There Lessons in Life, Finance and Urban Design to Be Learned From "It's A Wonderful Life"?
Or is it a blueprint for doing everything wrong and killing Bedford Falls.
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Motopia: An Idea for an Upside Down City
Le Corbusier started it; Oscar Niemeyer did it in Brazilia; here is another crazy idea for separating cars from people
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Dream Kitchens Of Tomorrow Were Supposed To Do All The Work For You
Why should you have to work so hard on dinner when computers were supposed to do the cooking for us?
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See All Our Posters from the Past That Have Lessons for the Present
From canning to recycling, from women working to waste, there was a poster for everything.
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Photo of the Day: Venice, 1958
I'm arriving in Venice today, following in the footsteps of my grandmother.
