[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Andrew Maynard plug in housing
When I asked Is Home Ownership a Good Thing? a few months ago, the consensus was very much yes. Now some thoughtful people are coming down on the other side. Richard Florida:
Our reliance on single-family homeownership is a product of the past 50 years – and the experiment has outlived its […]
(Image from Japan Car: Designs for a Crowded Globe at Flickr)
London’s Science Museum, Design Platform Japan and a host of others are presenting a rather different take on the cultural aspects of state-of-the-art automobiles, including kei cars, in a clever exhibition that started on November 29, 2008.
Japan Car - Designs for the Crowded Globe is […]
photo: Native American Biofuels
Considering that many of its higher profile vehicles really suck fuel like there’s no tomorrow, you may not think that the US military concerned itself much with reducing fuel usage, but based on a recent announcement that’s apparently not the case.
According to Army Times, the Army will be deploying 800 Neighborhood […]
photo: The Guardian
If you live in the United States, you may have missed the announcement made last Thursday, that the world’s fastest all-electric superbike has been unveiled. Making its first appearance at the 2008 NEC Bike Show in the UK , the TTX01 isn’t commercially available yet, but it is street legal (in the UK […]
photo: Mini USA
You probably heard or read about last week’s announcement that applications for the Mini E field test had been opened and that 500 people in the Los Angeles and New York metro areas would be participating. Maybe you ever applied to have the honor of paying for a year-long lease on one of […]
Pop-out to a pop-up has got to be London’s theme this month. Everywhere temporary shops selling Christmas goodies are appearing…and then disappearing. Last week’s was an eco delight with ecological and green gifts for everyone and this week’s caters to the design crowd. Brought to you by Designersblock, the group behind the […]
Lots of companies have “guides”- that simply take you around their own products. EcoTimber, (seen on TreeHugger here) which has been selling sustainably harvested wood since 1992, has produced a wood guide that is well laid out, fairly complete, and as they say on Fox, “fair and balanced”- a really useful resource if you […]
Old Thomas Alva was no slouch with the elbows in the corners when it came to patent battles or discrediting competitors, and neither are his successors at General Electric. While we generally admire the company, we were not impressed with their announcement a year and a half ago that they were working on more […]
They are just so cute, those kids on the cement promotion site. The concrete manufacturers advertise themselves as green, and whenever we go to the trade shows, all the insulated form manufacturers are calling themselves “green”- there was a whole row of them at Greenbuild. My usual complaints are the amount of Carbon Dioxide […]
My favorite talmudic anecdote is from the Rabbi who noted “my life has been blessed, because I never knew I needed anything until I had it.” I know exactly how he felt; How have I coped without this One Click Butter Cutter? No wonder North American kitchens are so big, they have to accommodate […]