[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Photo by Aaram Safari Photography.
Ever wonder just how great the new Audi Q7 SUV is going to be with its new turbocharged clean diesel technology? Well, now is your chance to find out with the Audi Mileage Marathon. Starting October 6th, 2008, this two week marathon will take the new diesel Audi along with a […]
Photo by Roger Wyan
Left to right: Bill Duff, Corporate Manager, Environmental Office, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.; Bob Hansen, President, The Yosemite Fund; Steve Kang, Chancellor, UC Merced; and Mike
It’s nice to hear of successful companies offering their support towards helping to sustain our earth and our dwindling national parks. Toyota presented a check and […]
Greengaged was potentially one of the most exciting parts of the London Design Festival. A whole series of events dedicated to eco-design and sustainability was totally unprecedented on the festival calendar and thanks to the programme curated by three amazing women: Sophie Thomas of Thomas Matthews, Anne Chick of Kingston University and Sarah Johnson of […]
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The Architecture of Purification
The stuff we breathe indoors can sometimes be worse for our health than outdoor air. Taiwanese architect and artist An Te Liu takes no chances. Cloud, his installation at the 11th Venice International Architecture Biennale, is comprised of over one hundred air purifiers hanging […]
Imagine_PS by Humancar
We often hear about hyrbid vehicles, and that usually means gas & electric, or sometimes diesel & electric, but the Imagine_PS by HumanCar is different. It is a human-powered vehicle, but we’re pretty far from the Flintstones. It is also a PHEV that can be charged by plugging it into the grid, you […]
Making Small Cars Safer
Small(er) cars are back in vogue, even in the US, but one problem you face as you go smaller and smaller is safety. Below a certain size, you simply don’t have much crumple zones anymore. You can partly make up for it with better designed structures, advanced materials and with active safety […]
As we head down the rabbit hole of recession, one of the best tools we have for reducing our consumption is transparency; being able to see what we are using and how much it is costing us as we use it. Prius drivers find that the fuel consumption gauges improve their driving as they watch […]
The architectural firm Anshen+Allen knows its way around a hospital room, and has built a demonstration of the “Green Patient Room, benchmarking sustainable designs using green materials and new technologies.” They brought their travelling show to IIDEX in Toronto and I interviewed Suzanne Drake of the San Francisco office. …
We first heard about the Lemnis Pharox a couple of years ago; now it is available in America. It isn’t as pretty as some of the other LEDs we have seen, but screws right into an Edison socket, uses four watts to put out the lumens of a 40 watt incandescent and lasts 30 years. […]
James Dyson “is a man who likes to make things work better.” He is sort of the Steve Jobs of industrial design, looking at problems and coming up with elegant and effective solutions. The airblade is like that; it uses 80% less energy than a conventional electric hand dryer and wipes the water off your […]