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US researchers have identified a protein which reduces the extent of damage caused by a heart attack.

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Unicef says progress in reducing death rates among children under five is still ‘insufficient’ in some parts of the world.

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

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 […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

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 […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

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 […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

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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Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

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 […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

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 […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

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 […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None