Stunning Sustainable Building ...

Sep 14, 2012 by

Stunning Sustainable Building is a … Hydroelectric Plant?

In the South Tyrol province of Italy, Monovolume Architecture has completed a hydro-electric power plant….

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Photos of Abandoned Olympic Si...

Aug 22, 2012 by

Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites Around the World

Every country hosting an Olympics always claims that they will re-use the buildings afterwards

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Next-level sh!t: Bill Gates ha...

Aug 17, 2012 by

Next-level sh!t: Bill Gates has seen the future, and it is craptacular

The first thing that strikes you about the “Reinventing the Toilet” fair …

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Lower Manhattan to get $47K re...

Aug 16, 2012 by

Lower Manhattan to get $47K recycling bin

Now that they’ve popped up across London, Renew Recycle Bins..

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Go Green

Aug 15, 2012 by

Go Green

Trying to change an architectural blueprint is a bit like asking the Titanic to make a U-turn..

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Urban Heat Island Effect And C...

Aug 15, 2012 by

For scientists who worry about climate change, cities are just plain annoying.

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President Obama and the forgot...

Aug 14, 2012 by

President Obama and the forgotten urban agenda

It’s safe to say that Barack Obama came to the White House with more street cred than any president in recent memory.

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The Bully and the Business Man

Aug 5, 2012 by

The Bully and the Business Man

[Translate] Monika Mitchell CEO, Good Business New York Posted: 08/03/2012 4:18 pm This weekend in Manhattan, a small Scottish storm...

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New Bladeless Wind Turbine Cla...

Aug 4, 2012 by

New Bladeless Wind Turbine Claimed to be Twice as Efficient as Conventional Designs

[Translate] Derek Markham Technology / Wind Technology August 3, 2012 © Saphon When it comes to the future of wind power, one company...

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Could These Spider-Like, Human...

Aug 3, 2012 by

Could These Spider-Like, Human-Sized Webs Refine Rainforest Research?

[Translate] Kimberley Mok Design / Green Architecture August 3, 2012 © Yi Yvonne Weng Unsurpassed in its biodiversity of medicinal...

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Creating 1 Million Energy Effi...

Aug 3, 2012 by

Creating 1 Million Energy Efficiency Jobs is “a No-Brainer”: Bill Clinton

[Translate] Brian Merchant Business / Corporate Responsibility September 26, 2011 Photo: Paul Morse, Clinton Global Initiative via...

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How Smaller Cities are Taking ...

Aug 2, 2012 by

How Smaller Cities are Taking the Lead in Sustainability Innovation

[Translate] AlterNet / By Sven Eberlein Big cities get all the attention – but smaller, more agile towns are turning out to be...

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When New Prefab Meets Old: A M...

Jul 30, 2012 by

When New Prefab Meets Old: A Missed Opportunity

[Translate] Lloyd Alter Design / Modular Design July 30, 2012 © Sears Archives Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck sold over 70,000...

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Furniture to Philanthropy: Sho...

Jul 26, 2012 by

[Translate] Adam Steel Producer/Writer at Change For Balance Productions and Executive Director of the Gen Why Project ANEW (Full...

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Every Building Should Be Susta...

Jul 13, 2012 by

Every Building Should Be Sustainable, Not Just Green

[Translate] WorldWatch Blogs Green Economy 2012-07-13 In a sustainable world, the built environment would be in balance with the...

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Tiny Modern Seaside Hut Built ...

Jul 9, 2012 by

Tiny Modern Seaside Hut Built On Sled So That It Move With Shifting Sands

[Translate] Lloyd Alter Design / Green Architecture July 9, 2012 © Jackie Meiring for AR While most of the attention around the...

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Green Bathroom Makeover —...

Jul 9, 2012 by

Green Bathroom Makeover — Quick and easy “green” bathroom updates.

[Translate]   bobvila By Maureen Blaney Flietner Bathroom > Bathroom > Green Bathroom Makeover Green Bathroom Makeover...

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Is the High Line Park “A...

Jul 4, 2012 by

Is the High Line Park “A Tad Fatuous” or “A Gorgeously Executed Gem”?

[Translate] Lloyd Alter Design / Urban Design July 2, 2012 Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 When I tried to walk the High Line on a gorgeous...

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Beautiful Boston Hospital Faci...

Jul 3, 2012 by

Beautiful Boston Hospital Facility Glimmers With a Recycled Copper Facade

[Translate] by Helen Morgan, 07/03/12 inhabitat The Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is shining bright with with a brand new...

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Living Building Challenge Aims...

Jul 3, 2012 by

Living Building Challenge Aims to Revolutionize Green Architecture

[Translate] e360 digest 03 Jul 2012: Living Building Challenge Aims to Revolutionize Green Architecture In June, the U.S. Green...

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Connect: Homes 2.0 Is a Contem...

Jun 29, 2012 by

Connect: Homes 2.0 Is a Contemporary Customizable and Sustainable Prefabricated Home!

[Translate] by Leon Kaye, 06/29/12  Connect:Homes seeks to transform contemporary prefabricated homes, and based on how the company’s...

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Twilight Epiphany Skyspace by ...

Jun 29, 2012 by

Twilight Epiphany Skyspace by James Turrell Suspends Time and Space With LEDs in Houston

[Translate] by Tafline Laylin, 06/29/12 James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany Skyspace is a breathtaking design that suspends time...

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Mobile Pizzeria is Built Out O...

Jun 28, 2012 by

Mobile Pizzeria is Built Out Of A 20′ Shipping Container

People are doing wonderful things with shipping containers, but this is a whole different way to slice it, a conversion of a 20′ shipping container into a big honking mobile pizzeria, complete with wood fired brick oven.

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New York’s Giant, Beauti...

Jun 27, 2012 by

New York’s Giant, Beautiful New Park, Built Atop a Landfill, Makes New York City Millions

[Translate] Alex Pasternack Editor, Motherboard.tv Public parks don’t tend to be cash cows, not unless they get advertising or...

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A Bucolic Vision of An Agenda ...

Jun 26, 2012 by

A Bucolic Vision of An Agenda 21 Future, And More Agenda 21 Updates

[Translate] Lloyd Alter Design / Urban Design June 25, 2012 Instead of a “white picket fence and home” dream, the United...

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Get a Sneak Peek of HWKN’s Gia...

Jun 26, 2012 by

Get a Sneak Peek of HWKN’s Giant Blue Smog-Eating Wendy Sculpture Before It Opens Next Week

[Translate] by Yuka Yoneda, 06/25/12 inhabitat Are you as excited about seeing Wendy as we are? The 3,000 sq. ft. spiky-armed,...

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Biosecurity Facility In New Ze...

Jun 26, 2012 by

Biosecurity Facility In New Zealand Is Not What One Expects; Instead of a Bunker, It’s Beautiful

[Translate] Lloyd Alter Design / Green Architecture June 25, 2012 When one thinks of a building that’s part of a National...

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PICS: Foster & Partners&#...

Jun 26, 2012 by

PICS: Foster & Partners’ Beautiful Green Renovation of Berlin’s Old Reichstag Parliament Building

[Translate] by Ana Lisa Alperovich, 06/25/12 inhaitat   If you’re ever in Berlin, we definitely recommend booking a free...

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UNStudio Center for Virtual En...

Jun 25, 2012 by

UNStudio Center for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) Earns Gold Sustainability Certification

Today the German Sustainable Building Council (DNGB) will award UNStudio’s Center for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) their gold certification for sustainable building at its official opening.

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Ed Mazria, A.I.A. 2030 Challen...

Jun 25, 2012 by

Ed Mazria, A.I.A. 2030 Challenge

[Translate] I was able to film and interview Ed Mazria for my film “Why Now? Not Later” for which we are seeking...

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