[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
A great way to start one’s visit to Greenbuild in Boston is at Project Frog, a prefabricated building system that is as far from the standard school portable as a Prius is from an Edsel. (Seen previously in TreeHugger at Project Frog: Too Cool for School
There are certain basics everyone wants in a green building, […]
GreenBuild is just huge, 800 booths, 30,000 people, there probably are more green vendors and green architects in this room than there are green clients in America. One doesn’t even want to think about the carbon footprint of bringing everyone to town for this thing, but they just had to change the name of Architecture […]
Casa Decor, the international interior design show, chose “Pathway to a Sustainable Environment” (or Rumbo Sostenible in Spanish) as this year’s theme for their exhibition in Barcelona. We already wrote about the elegant recycled restaurant by designer Nancy Robbins in a previous article, and we would now like to present you the project Barcelona Forever, […]
If you live in Los Angeles or in the New York/New Jersey metro area and want an electric Mini Cooper pay attention.
Starting today you can apply to be one of the 500 lucky people taking part in a year-long field trial (no, you can’t keep it afterwards) of the Mini E. That’s the good […]
As the ghost of GM’s assassinated electric car haunts a fearful Detroit, another boogeyman is waiting in the wings: the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric car, being readied for its December release — in China.
BYD, a company that first made its reputation as the world’s largest maker of cell phone batteries, has announced […]
Today, the Green Car Journal gave its 2009 Green Car of the Year award to the Volkswagen Jetta TDI at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2009 Jetta TDI is a quiet-running, diesel-powered car. It beat out hybrids and mini-cars to take the title. The Jetta uses a technology called “clean diesel” which actually lives […]
An example of a combinatorial library chip, part of a magnetic smart materials library. Via UMD
A new discovery by researchers at the University or Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering may mean a significant reduction in the use of lead in electronics, without having to devise whole new ways of creating electronics.
The […]
image: Recurrent Energy
The number of companies finding room on their property/roof for solar power systems continues to rise. Outdoors gear manufacturer The North Face has announced that it has completed installation of a 1 MW solar power system at its West Coast distribution center in Visalia, California. All of the electricity from the system, […]
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The Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition (DRAM), a group that works to educate and influence policymakers and the mainstream about smart grid technology, is changing its name to the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG). But that’s not the interesting news. The interesting part is that it has accepted a few […]
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Four big companies have recently churned out reports on how they’re doing with their greener sides. Not only is it fun to check out what they have to say, but it is also invigorating to see so many major companies trying to increase transparency, lighten their carbon loads, and help us do […]