[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Huge Post Office green roof offers Manhattan views. Photos by Sigal Ben-Shmuel/EKLA
When the sun beats down there will be no tar up on this roof: the U.S. Postal Service created a 2.5 acre oasis in Manhattan this week with a green roof on its Morgan mail processing facility. The garden-like space will help reduce the […]
Images via Marten Wallgren
The Future City Mobility competition enticed designers to envision how London’s transportation could look in 2030. Marten Wallgren, a Swede studying at the Royal College of Art, along with three cohorts, took the SeymourPowell award for their concept dubbed London Garden. The scheme incorporates a network of electric buses, taxis, and scooter-bikes, […]
Image via: osamu_ito on Flickr.com
Ever wonder how your solar panels are held together, just silently doing their job day in and day out, taking a beating from all of the seasons, while up on your roof? Sundar Damodaran, Global Business Manager for Tapes & Adhesives under the Renewable Energy Division, lets us in on the […]
Images via Marten Wallgren
The Future City Mobility competition enticed designers to envision how London’s transportation could look in 2030. Marten Wallgren, a Swede studying at the Royal College of Art, along with three cohorts, took the SeymourPowell award for their concept dubbed London Garden. The scheme incorporates a network of electric buses, taxis, and scooter-bikes, […]
The swine flu epidemic has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people over the next two years, says the WHO.
Photo via -{ Ariful H Bhuiyan }-
In June, we had a chance to sit down with Drew Clark, IBM’s Venture Capital Group Director of Strategy. He let us know about some great ways IBM is filtering money into projects that go directly toward water and energy efficiency, particularly in making water management look more […]
photo: Istvan Vass via flickr
Nearly a year ago a “Great Green Wall” of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England, architect Magnus Larsson proposes anothe…
The swine flu epidemic has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people over the next two years, says the WHO.
Garrison Creek, Now Buried
Every time it used to rain in Toronto, the combined sewer system would overflow into Lake Ontario and all of the beaches would have to be closed. The engineers as is their wont, proposed concrete: a giant interceptor pipe big enough to drive a bus through, that could hold all the water […]
Photo credit Mark Craemer
Recently we showed you images of one of the largest conflict mineral mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photographer Mark Craemer showed us what it is like to work in such a place, and gave insight into the awful workings of conflict mineral mines, the product of which goes into […]