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 [...]
This is what brussel sprouts look like!!! This is a great perk. The newest thing to hit business, according to WSJ (apologies for going back on my word, but this is a nice little article), is the community garden at work. Your company invests the money in the landscaping, the employees help to tend [...] 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 [...] I saw this image in a great presentation called “Biomimicry An Action” by Janine Benyus at TED, by Dr. Adam Neiman. It takes a second to understand it, but the image on the left is the Earth with all the water on the planet in its own sphere. The second is the same, but it’s all [...] The difference between ‘old’ environmentalism and ‘new’ is dropping the guilt-laden should, and replacing it with could. Rather then harping on peoples weaker motivations, it’s all about inspiring them to be empowered and think creative, big, fun. Maybe nothing says sustainability=fun more than The PlayPump system. It’s a pump. Boooring. But, it’s also a kid’s round-about. The [...]
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). [...] An interesting article today in the Times says that the incandescent bulb, relatively unchanged since the time of Edison, might not need to be eulogized quite yet. Teams of scientists are racing to revolutionize the old standard in hopes of sparing it from obsolescence because of efficiency standards, set to take effect in 2012. I like [...] 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 [...] |
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