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I will be posting “Eco Wow” photos at the beginning of the week. Photos that speak for themselves. And if you are interested in learning more (and actually reading! despite American culture’s fixation on just visual imagery today) then just click on the link to the photo caption! Queensland, Australia Oil Spill...
We generate so much trash on a daily basis that it wouldn’t be surprising if future generations mistakenly thought that we actually worshipped all the garbage we toss into landfills. That’s the idea behind Salzig Design’s Temple of Trash, a temporary structure built in a Rotterdam, Netherlands port area as part of the 2007 Follydock Festival. The waste-filled walls of the temple are constructed 100 tons of PET bottlespressed into bales!...
I will be posting “Eco Wow” photos at the beginning of the week. Photos that speak for themselves. And if you are interested in learning more (and actually reading! despite American culture’s fixation on just visual imagery today) then just click on the link to the photo caption! The Future of Solar Power…...
100 child-sized ice sculptures sit in Beijing’s Temple of Earth to represent the 1 billion lives that will be lost in Asia due to water shortages caused by climate change. The art installation marks the launch of the TckTckTck Campaign, a campaign that works to raise awareness of the importance of a fair and ambitious agreement at the upcoming United Nations Copenhagen Climate Summit, taking place from December 7 to 18, 2009, where world leaders will gather to establish a plan to protect the world’s population from climate change Greenpeace China Climate and Energy Campaign Manager, Yang Ailun says, “We are here today...
Whenever we show some interesting piece of transformer furniture, designs that serve a number of functions, the regular comment is “why is this so expensive?” But we often show the cutting edge stuff made in short runs by designers, before the ideas become mainstream. Now, with more people working out of their homes and apartments (whether they want to or not), the big guys are jumping in. As Deborah Fulsang notes in the Globe and Mail: In the past, the suburban dad’s den may have been the home-office ideal, but space is precious in many homes these days. As a result,...
Argentine design studio Gruba has come up with a set of very cool chairs, table and benches made with reclaimed materials that are also entirely recyclable at the end of their (second) lifetime. The first, featured above, is an incredibly good looking sofa chair made with reconstituted wood and recovered with recovered wooden window blinds. The chair is also easy to disassemble and its materials, recyclable....
In one of the most ambitious examples of speculative architecture of the year, Paris-based OFF Architecture recently unveiled an incredible eco-bridge spanning the Bering Strait from Russia to the United States that would facilitate international trade, protect wildlife, mitigate global warming, and promote peace. Every bit as beautiful and eco-conscious as it is quixotic, the project stole the show at the Bering Strait International Ideas Competition. OFF Architecture’s proposal for a structure spanning the Bering Strait includes the obligatory bridge and park, but also adds a self-contained ecosystem powered by geothermal technology and ocean current turbines. The design also features...
In what is set to be the greenest development in Turkey, Istanbul recently unveiled the VARYAP Meridian Project, a mixed-use super-development that will house the city’s new financial and business district. Set in the Atasehir District at the crossroads of major highways, subway lines and near the airport, the new project will be a model for future green development. New York and Istanbul-based RMJM are designing the project to LEED standards and have carefully analyzed the site to take advantage of the surrounding topography, climate and context HIT FROM : INHABITAT.COM...
Big Ben, the famous clock at Britain’s Houses of Parliament, has shown up in a cornfield. Rre-created from more than 500 bales of straw, the 70 ft. sculpture weighs over 20 tons and has a working clock . And it can be recycled when it is taken down after Christmas. What is happening here? It turns out that the local ice cream company, Snugburys, has created the clock to commemorate the creation of the original Big Ben 150 years ago. They are even selling Big Ben shaped ice cream cones to celebrate the occasion. HIT FROM: TREEHUGGER.COM...
Singapore’s Telok Blangah Hill Park is a dreamscape for city-bound nature lovers. A sleek fly-over infrastructure of bridges and platforms elevates visitors above the forest floor to give them a “monkey perspective,” with minimal effect on the greenery below, writes Pop-Up City. The views also include a 360-degree panorama of the city, a reminder that the city isn’t — and needn’t be — far away from the country. Dooooope. Used as an important trading spot beginning in the early 19th century, the park has now found a more stable balance between the goings-on of the city and the buzz of the wilderness....
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