[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Roofs are for people, and should be green and accessible. That is what is so exciting about New Heden in Gothenberg, Daniel Andersson’s final thesis at Jönköping University, with Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky of Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects. as tutors. The form of the buildings, “built as sliced hills with grass roofs that can be […]
Photo by Robert Thornton III
That is a headline that we hope will be repeated many times, and describes the purchase of Chicago’s Republic Windows.
Of course, whenever we write about the need to rebuild the rust belt for the new green economy, we get told in comments that it will never happen, the unions […]
Swedish bicycle path directions by bjaglin @ flickr.
Bike transport innovations just never get the same mainstream media coverage - or popularity, even on TreeHugger - that car news enjoys. Yet so much is happening as bike sharing booms in cities and on college campuses across the world, ridership increases, and the bike industry is one […]
Hondas at Swindon; Andy Rain/EPA
The Guardian photo essay notes: Carmakers around the world are cutting production as inventories build up to unprecedented levels. Storage areas and docksides are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand slumps.
Ryan Avent wonders: How we choose to deploy valuable resources. What else might they have […]
Image from Sara Golemon
Chalk up another one for human “ingenuity.” Efforts to reverse the proliferation of invasive species on Macquarie Island, a 50-square mile piece of land located approximately halfway between Australia and Antarctica, have taken a disastrous turn for the worse–with the likely end scenario a complete “ecosystem meltdown.” The sole last resort, scientists […]
Jobs in Renewable Energy: What Does it Take?
The US is not the only place where talk of a Green New Deal has sprung up as a result of the economic crisis we find ourselves in. The UK too has seen a healthy does of discussion around stimulus plans that might simultaneously
In her book Bottlemania, Elizabeth Royte quoted a Pepsico marketing VP in 2000 talking about water: “when we are done, tap water will be relegated to showers and washing dishes.” About four years later, universities started looking at banning bottled water from campuses. By 2007, cities like San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto were considering it. […]
(Photo: Tabibito-banban)
Yesterday train aficionados went to Takasaki, north of Tokyo, to bid farewell to the EF 551 train engine, affectionately known as “Moomin” because of its resemblance to the cartoon character. A few of my friends regularly meet up for such events, taking photos and blogging about the trains. But the event yesterday was special: […]