[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
220 Volt Heavy Duty Receptacle. Image credit:Angiogram
This is one of those comparison posts that that could draw many angry comments: like Could Hype Sell An Inferior Hybrid? - Ford Fusion versus Toyota Camry did. Please carefully read the caveats.
Investigators from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburg PA, have made a Volt-type […]
Rail station in Shanghai, China (photo via thetransportpolitic.com)
About a year ago, TreeHugger interviewed Andy Kunz, an urban designer, New Urbanist and rail advocate. Kunz laid out a pretty convincing case for high speed rail as the solution for a number of problems facing American transportation, including outdated infrastructure, peak oil (or “energy independence,” depending how […]
Image via: Getty Images
One of the many other “changes” (benefits?) to come our way, scientists now predict, is the growth in the worlds largest sand dunes, reports New Scientist this week. We’re talking sand dunes that are 500 meters or greater and we’re definitely not advocating for racing quads over sand dunes this tall (or […]
photo: University of South Carolina
I have to admit that I was thrilled to see this story as I am a resident of Columbia, S.C. (home to USC) and we aren’t often the “the world’s first” at much related to the environment. But it’s great to see that USC is making moves toward some greener technology […]
Photo credit: Vivir Mexico
Mexico City’s minister of the environment, Martha Delgado, announced Friday that in August a pilot project requiring students to take school buses instead of private vehicles to school at 10 private schools would commence. The initiative was spurred by the success of a study carried out at the Colegio Oxford private school, […]
A gene linked to a type of motor neurone disease that runs in families has been pinned down after a 10-year search.
Image via: FoxFury
FoxFury, maker of lights of all shapes and sizes, has just come out with their heavy-duty Fire Figher Rated Headlamp. If you’re in the market for a headlamp that is fire resistant, impact resistant and water proof up to 20 feet, then this is the headlamp for you. If you’re more in the […]
4+1=2?
When Steven Holl Architects announced this week that it had won a competition to design a corporate master plan in China’s southern financial capital Shenzhen, near a new tower by OMA, it immediately raised some eyebrows. It wasn’t its “4-in-1″ tower design that was so striking. It wasn’t the sustainable touches. It was the […]
The Bronx NIMBYs went nuts when it was proposed that a water filtration plant be built in a park. So the architects, Grimshaw, followed what is becoming a common strategy: put a green roof on it and show it from the air. Building? What building?
And in this case, it’s BIG, nine acres big, […]
Blair Kamin calls the Sears Tower ” a symbol of Chicago’s urban might, not only because of its dark, masculine color but also because its exterior boldly expresses the structural system of “bundled tubes” that support it.”
It’s not for nothing that Skidmore, Owings and Merrill were nicknamed the “three blind mies”- it has […]