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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 [...]
Calling it “Version 1.0″, the initial survey that kicks off Wal-Mart’s massively important, amazing, perhaps game-changing sustainability program that we wrote about last week is out! It’s really interesting and, in as nice of a way as possible, tries to nail its 100,000 suppliers balls to the wall (pick another metaphor for non-sports goods). [...]
This is my office home for the next month or so: The City Of Pittsburgh Sustainability Department. It sits right in dahntahn (listen to the link…hilarious…”downtown”, for you non-natives) Pittsburgh, across the street from the much heralded PNC Firstside Center (PNC has more LEED buildings than any other company in the world), [...] There is a movement afoot in one of the classic post-industrial cities of the US which is now becoming the embodiment of a local, green economy. Once known far and wide as “The Smoky City”, Pittsburgh, PA, was the world’s largest producer of steel and had the pollution to show for it: black skies, streetlights on [...] Emily Deschanel in eco-friendly Stella McCartney Emily Deschanel has it going on. We recently came across this vid-bit where the Bones star speaks brightly on her green lifestyle, converting key grips through humiliation & the virtues of vintage clothing! In a quick sit-down interview in the duplex she shares with her sister Zooey, Emily shares personal insight [...] I can’t get over this story… Kibera, Kenya. Africa’s largest slum. Imagine the worst living conditions, surrounded by garbage and raw sewage, you decide to grow a garden. Now imagine not just a small plot kicking down a few weak tomatoes, but a large, thriving, Organic community garden built and maintained by a [...] The time has come for all citizens to unite! Grab your Succulents, compile your Lavender and Thyme, propagate your Juniper!! Yeah, that’s right- now is the time to reface the planet one GARDEN at a time. Welcome to the subversive world of Guerilla Gardening and Xeriscaping; where a little forethought and minimal [...] |
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