[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
In October 1958 the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a small conference on urban design at the University of Pennsylvania, attended by Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Louis Kahn, I.M. Pei, Kevin Lynch and other notable architects, planners and journalists. It sparked a revolution in urban planning and changed the face of our cities.
Fifty years later, planners, architects […]
At least that is what the media releases are saying. Late last month, the Australian Solar Sailor company announced they’d signed a deal with China’s biggest shipping line, COSCO, to fit some of their jumbo jet sized solar-powered sails to a tanker and bulk carrier.
The 30 metre long sails, festooned in photovoltaic panels are […]
We’ve given kudos to the Bicycle Film Festival for years, for spreading the word about this most miraculous of vehicles, so why should we stop now. Although, admittedly, we have arrived less than early to the party. But the annual festival still has four gigs before it slams on the brakes for yet another […]
While California voters rejected Propositions 7 and 10—which though on paper would’ve expanded renewable energy mandates and given tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles, were seen by many as being so poorly worded as to be counterproductive—they did approve Proposition 1A: The Safe, Reliable High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act. As you might imagine […]
Photo of Palace of Fine Arts via 23am
Out of 43 great innovations submitted to the California Clean Tech Open, a small handful of winners were chosen last night at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts to receive a “start-up-in-a-box” prize, which includes the equivalent of 0,000 in cash and business services to help get their […]
It is no secret that Windows Vista has a whole lot of hate aimed at it by its (often unwilling) users. Even “I’m a Mac” commercials put it as the punchline. Windows 7 is Microsoft’s answer to the demand for a better operating system, and there is an improvement that makes it way cooler than […]
While it’s not exactly an answer for a question I put to Al Gore in a recent post, more details have come out about how the clean energy vision Gore articulated in his Repowering America speech can be made a realit…
GoodGuide has already made its way onto our top lists for greening our shopping. But its newest prize proves that environmentally friendly shopping is a high enough priority to get some serious attention. …
photo: Wikipedia
Straight away let me say that I wouldn’t get my hopes up that this will solve our carbon capture and storage problems, and even if it went a long way to, there are plenty of other problems with obtaining and burning fossil fuels beyond their carbon emissions. Phew… There’s my preface to what’s a […]
Seaweed farms on Bali, photo: Hassan Abdel-Rahman.
Italian biodiesel producers are interested in it; the UK’s Crown Estate has expressed support as well. Now Indonesia is looking to capitalize on its abundant supplies of seaweed and turn it into biodiesel. To do so it’s engaging the help of South Korea, Cleantech reports. While S. Korea has […]