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WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here’s part 3 of our sneak peek at NextFest.
See also part 1 and part 2….

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

If you’ve been wondering where you can spend a semester of college sleeping among the trees and finding a way to discover how much you don’t need to buy to be happy, then St. Lawrence College in NY has just what you’ve been looking for, complete with bleach to treat the water from Lake Massawepie….

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here’s part 3 of our sneak peek at NextFest.
See also part 1 and part 2….

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Urban Re:Design is a San Francisco-based, internationally partnered sustainability group whose main focus is finding fresh ideas and ways to look at building and design, so that we can radically alter how we construct our world and make it sustainable and eco-friendly.
They’ve launched a series of five competitions that look at energy, transportation, economy, […]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

If you’ve been wondering where you can spend a semester of college sleeping among the trees and finding a way to discover how much you don’t need to buy to be happy, then St. Lawrence College in NY has just what you’ve been looking for, complete with bleach to treat the water from Lake Massawepie….

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here’s part 3 of our sneak peek at NextFest.
See also part 1 and part 2….

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Thonet chairs are the classic and quintessential french cafe chair. We have been looking at them in french films, paintings and restaurants forever. Particularly the No.14–it was created in 1862, and by 1930 almost 50 million had been sold. Le Corbusier said “Never has anything been created more elegant and better in its conception, […]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

The Reclaimer provides a modest but very special service to the people of Los Angeles. They avert about 100,000 board feet of quality lumber from landfills each month, and resell the lumber to builders.
LA landfills are only about five years away from capacity. And about half a billion board feet of lumber each year […]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

This year, West Coast Green is focusing intently on the building industry and innovations that green it up. We gave you some sneak peek photos of the house on Wednesday, but now you can check out some great video footage that provid…

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None