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Archive for September 22nd, 2008

Sustainlane ranks Greenest US Cities

crazy graph is presented for each city. More little triangles near the bullseye means higher score.
Sustainlane, the “people powered sustainability guide” benchmarks the performance of the top 50 cities in the United States in 16 areas of urban sustainability including air quality, innovation, commuting, local food and agriculture and more. The list reveals “which cities […]

Big Step in Building: Use Green Gravel To Make Concrete

We go on about the problems with concrete, and how it is responsible for 5% of global Carbon dioxide production. There is a lot of research going on to deal with the carbon dioxide produced in the making of cement, which is the main problem. However there is another issue that is often overlooked- the […]

Condo Design Jumps the Shark

Back in the days when I was an architect/developer, I put together a little condo project in Toronto. It had some funny overhangs and terraces and cleaning windows was a challenge. Once just after occupancy a window washer dropped a line over a handrail. When he put load on it, it bent the handrail in […]

Toyota iQ Urban Car Exposed at the Royal College of Art

Toyota iQ: Museum Quality
The Royal College of Art in London is “the world’s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution,” and apparently they like the Toyota iQ (which Toyota calls the smallest four-passenger car in the world).
The Toyota iQ will be exposed at the RCA between September 19 and 23 to “provide the inspiration for […]

Video & Photos: 2008 Park(ing) Day in New York City

Park(ing) Day New York City 2008
Lloyd wrote a post earlier today about Park(ing) Day in NYC. If you are not familiar with the concept, check it out.
The video below was made by our friends at StreetFilms. They went to the ‘liberated’ parking spots around New York to show what imaginative citizens did. Looks like they […]

Toyota iQ Urban Car Exposed at the Royal College of Art

Toyota iQ: Museum Quality
The Royal College of Art in London is “the world’s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution,” and apparently they like the Toyota iQ (which Toyota calls the smallest four-passenger car in the world).
The Toyota iQ will be exposed at the RCA between September 19 and 23 to “provide the inspiration for […]

More Fallout from Bob Lutz’s Interview on the Colbert Report

Bob Lutz’s Global Warming Controversy Continues
Last week we posted about an interview that GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz gave to Stephen Colbert. His most controversial statement was about not believing in the “CO2 theory of global warming”, which generated a lot of comments from TreeHugger readers, most of them falling into three camps:
1) Those who […]

Ecopods Re-think The Box

Dwight Doerkson has developed “an affordable eco friendly building that’s transportable and doesn’t need to be hooked up to the grid”- out of shipping containers. He cuts out an entire wall and hinges it, so when you want to leave your ecopod you simply flip a switch and a solar powered winch pulls up the […]

Beeologics To Save US Honeybees With New Anti-Viral Medicine –– Have a Colony To Share?

In some circles this is breaking news –– Israeli-US scientists say they have found a cure for honeybee collapse disorder (Colony Collapse Disorder –– CCD), a condition which TreeHugger has been following extensively over the last couple of years. While different theories abound as to why honeybee populations have collapsed, the scientists from Beeologics […]

Toyota iQ Urban Car Exposed at the Royal College of Art

Toyota iQ: Museum Quality
The Royal College of Art in London is “the world’s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution,” and apparently they like the Toyota iQ (which Toyota calls the smallest four-passenger car in the world).
The Toyota iQ will be exposed at the RCA between September 19 and 23 to “provide the inspiration for […]