Introducing STARS, a voluntary points-based rating system inspired by LEED, which will allow transportation professionals to plan and compare their projects using a national sustainability standard. [...]
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Check out this presentation on sustainable architecture over at TED. It’s not only impressive, it’s entertaining, as Bjarke Ingles, the Danish designer giving the talk, has a great sense of humor. The highlights: 07.50 Bike & Swim in Expo Center in China 12:26 Apartment/Parking Building looks like a mountain 15:35 1st Carbon Neutral [...] So, I’m a little late in bringing this up, but recently, there was news around a new type of synthetic tree that will capture CO2 and let humans sequester it where ever we find the space. Many people wrote about this magical “tree” that will cheerfully sit in parks around the world (or tucked away in [...] In a bid to make it ever harder to avoid phonecalls from your friends/girlfriends/boyfriends/parents/unwanted booty calls (“Sorry babe, my phone died…what?…oh, that’s just my roommate talking), a host of European manufacturers have agreed to develop a universal charger size. Beyond the consumer benefit, this is expected to keep thousands of tons of wires and plastic out [...] The fashion world has been taken by eco-storm. With organic cotton popping up everywhere from Banana Republic to Target, sustainable fashion has gone mainstream in a big way. And it’s about time: Conventional cotton accounts for 25% of all pesticides used in the US! With new ideas flooding the market every season, cotton and bamboo are [...] Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Surya in London and Greenhouse in New York both vie for worlds 1st “sustainable nightclub” status. With green mania being exposed in all its verdant vibrancy, the future is now as eco-conscious party goers power the clubs’ electricity on piezoelectric flooring, along with commercial wind and solar elements. Over at [...] Lately, Audi has been doing really big things with clean diesel engines. Similarly, a German auto-nerd has just set a world record for the fastest car driven by bio-gas using… an Audi sedan. This story over at autoblog.com tells a little more as to how Jürgen Hohenester, a German race car drive, tweaked his Audi to [...] World renowned sculptor Mara Haseltine engages bio-mimicry in her inspired, thought provoking pieces. Mara has long been an environmental community activist and combines her knowledge of the planet with her beautiful interpretations of the natural world. She has most recently been working with those in the scientific community to create living sculptures based on bio-mimicry. A [...]
Feed me sun, foggy San Fran! What’s up with waves man? I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of lights’ wave/particle duality (hint: it’s both); And now it’s all about waves wherever I turn, from the idea of wave power to the new Google Wave email system (I watched the video for this btw, [...] |
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