[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Washington, DC, which consistently scores high in sustainability rankings for its excellent public transportation, walkability, and green space, has few accolades in the area of green building. While the majority of the nation’s biggest environmental organizations are headquartered here, some of them with LEED-certified buildings, the priva…
It is really quite clever, if not comfortable; a single U-shaped piece can be linked to other identical pieces with industrial-strength Velcro to make all kinds of combinations….
According to a recent study released by researchers for the Michigan-based Ecology Center, one in three toys tested was found to contain toxic chemicals such as lead, flame retardants and arsenic.
It turns out that researchers tested more than 1,500 popular toys for lead, cadmium, arsenic, PVC and other harmful chemicals and said they found that […]
We previously presented Michelle Kaufmann’s GingerLotus, her green gingerbread house of the season, and compared it to her efforts last year. Not to be outdone in the exploding green gingerbread housing industry, HOK’s Toronto office has thrown the LEED-H book at the problem for a Habitat for Humanity Gingerbread Home design competition. …
The main docks and capitol building-cum-executive residence of Dumpling Island: Google Sightseeing
You can start typing your ‘cut out the misleading headlines’ comments now if you like, but just because no other nation in the world recognizes the three-acre country of Dumpling Island, off the Connecticut/New York coast, doesn’t mean I’m going to knock down island-owner […]
photos by Danny Bright
Nobody does shipping container architecture like Lot-ek, one of the originals. They have designed a demountable retail space for Puma, with “with large double heights as well as with 4-container-wide open spaces to challenge the modular box-quality of the container inner space; offices, press area and storage occupy the second level and […]
The Lesser Yellowlegs is one of the birds endangered by expanded tar sands mining. Photo: Lesser Yellowlegs
We’ve highlighted many times the unmitigated environmental horror of the Alberta Tar Sands, but one aspect which we haven’t pointed out is the impact on migratory birds. A new peer-reviewed report has just been released by the NRDC which […]
Logo images via Fujitsu Siemens
Tired of waiting around for those objective third party green labels to analyze electronics and dub them green or not? Fujitsu Siemens seems to be tired too, so they’re launching their own Green IT label.
Apparently third parties like EPEAT and
Ever get curious? “Where was my computer put together, who picked my coffee beans, what about the gold in my wedding ring?” We recall when Fred Pearce set out to find the answers, a journey that took him around the world seven times. Confessions of An Eco-Sinner is his tale; and what he found was […]
Clearly they have never called MY mom, which is harder than navigating an architects website. They predict that “you will talk to the web and the web will talk back.” Among their other predictions of for the next five years:…