Heart damage prevention hope
US researchers have identified a protein which reduces the extent of damage caused by a heart attack.
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Archive for September 11th, 2008
Huge split in child death rates
Unicef says progress in reducing death rates among children under five is still ‘insufficient’ in some parts of the world.
The Net-Zero Energy Now House is Really Boring.
I mean, really. Except for the metal roof, the Now House looks just like every other sixty year old postwar veteran’s house on the street in suburban Toronto. Everybody knows that a zero-energy house has to look all heliotropy and be covered in green gizmos.
And everybody knows that these old 2×4 houses are not […]
Tiny Homes: The Next Little Thing
Steven Kurutz of The New York Times gives good exposure to the small house movement, “whose adherents believe in minimizing one’s footprint — structural as well as carbon — by living in spaces that are smaller than 1,000 square feet and, in some cases, smaller than 100. Tiny houses have been a fringe curiosity for […]
LiveRoof at the Canadian Green Building Festival
We have mentioned LiveRoof, the green roof for people with short attention spans before; it is the “prevegetated modular green roof system” that installs, complete, in hours rather than years. While visiting the Green Building Festival, I found that Terry McGlade of Gardens in the Sky is now growing them in the Toronto area. He […]
Transformers: Flipp Table by Daniel So
While flipping through the always wonderful Australian Dyson Student Design Awards, we find the Flipp table by Daniel So of the University of Technology in Sydney. There are lots of extending and leaf tables about, and the description is a little over the top:
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Floating Homes Made From Coffee Cups with Green Walls
Since 2000, about thirty floating homes have been built out RexWall, a composite fiberglass panel; we have shown a few of them on TreeHugger. Now Michel Kreuger of Amsterdam’s Studio Noach has put together a team with Kohler Prize winning architect Anne Holtrop and Le Mur Vegetal inventor Patrick Blanc to build the ultimate floating […]
Who’s Afraid of a Car-Free Day? The Competitive Enterprise Institute, Apparently
TreeHugger likes all initiatives that put people - and smart people-moving transport - over cars, that’s nothing new. But not even we, and presumably none of the people who valiantly organize Car-Free Days in cities circling the globe, imagine a world without any cars - the motto seems a little more ‘less car’ than ‘car […]
Reduce Global Fuel Consumption by 75% Tomorrow By Cutting Speed in Half
That’s what Kris De Decker over at Low-tech Magazine claims. He writes:
If we cut the average speed of all vehicles by half, fuel consumption would decrease by a whopping 75 percent. We quote:
“Breaking speed records was an almost daily happening throughout the 20th century. Cars, ships, planes and trains became faster and faster, year after […]
Kona Donates AfricaBikes to Africa
Image source: Kona Bikes
Kona not only sells good bikes, sponsors riders to jump off things taller than our heads, and promotes recreational and functional biking, but it also is putting those bikes to work all over Africa. Their AfricaBikes program not only helps HIV/AIDS workers deliver medicine, but now the bikes are also being used […]
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