09 August 2010
In one of the highest points of the Andes in Peru, the government recently inaugurated a building that is helping save thousands of animal lives. How many buildings these days can claim to produce such immediate ecological results?
Posted in Architecture + Design, Planet Earth5 Comments
03 August 2010
Football kits are probably the best representation of a nation's spirit. In a world cup we get to experience this with all its splendor. But which shirts throughout history are considered the best? Well ESPN have an answer. Here is the top 10...
Posted in Green + Cool0 Comments
02 August 2010
Three months ago, Greenpeace started a competition to redesign BP's green sunflower logo with something that would reflect the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. The competition was open to everyone and in the three months in which the world saw with anger how a massive plume of oil gushed into the ocean threatening all kinds of wildlife, millions were also watching the amazing entries that were being submitted as a response.
Posted in Critical issues, Planet Earth1 Comment
01 August 2010
Plastic bottles are a big problem in general but perhaps one that can be avoided with something as essential as milk. How much is the milk I'm feeding my family costing the planet? Can I buy milk and still be green?
Posted in Critical issues, Green Tips, Planet Earth1 Comment
28 July 2010
The Idea was simple......To take the vibrant and often transient art form of Brazilian graffiti out of its predominantly urban context and apply it to the ancient and permanent walls of an historic rural castle in Scotland.
Posted in Art, Green + Cool, Video4 Comments
23 July 2010
Architect Nader Khalili dug from an unexpected source to propose a possible sustainable solution for the housing of the future.
Posted in Architecture + Design, Green Tips, Planet Earth, Video1 Comment
18 July 2010
Some academics have calculated that if the grain fed to animals in western countries were consumed directly by people instead of animals, we could feed at least twice as many people. if this isn't reason enough to turn vegetarian, here are 7 more reasons for you to ponder...
Posted in Critical issues, Green Tips, Planet Earth11 Comments
15 July 2010
Which are the 5 things that will stand the test of time when we think back at the World Cup 2010 in South Africa?
Posted in Green + Cool, Planet Earth1 Comment
29 June 2010
We all know that we can recycle newspaper. It is perhaps the most commonly recycled item in our households. But where does Recycled newspaper end up? Where can you use recycled newspapers? What can you make from recycled newspapers? Find out in this Guide to using recycled newspapers in Construction
Posted in Architecture + Design, Green Tips, Planet Earth7 Comments
17 June 2010
The song that Shakira released for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa has reached every corner of the World, but the catchy chorus has a long past deeply rooted in African Culture...
Posted in Green + Cool, Video5 Comments
07 June 2010
Learn how the constant stream of eco-tourism is greatly affecting the Galapagos islands.
Posted in Critical issues, Planet Earth, Video0 Comments
16 May 2010
Does the Amazon belong to Humanity? It is so often described as the “lungs of humanity", however to a lot of people in Brazil, its a home and a source of national pride.
Posted in Critical issues, Planet Earth2 Comments
12 May 2010
4600 shipping palettes were stacked in a gallery space, adjoining a courtyard of identical shape. Using elliptical geometry an ovoid volume was carved from the palette stack. Simultaneously, the removed pieces were reassembled in the courtyard as an ovoid solid. The work functions as a scale, balancing positive and negative, apogee and centre. A lever of space.
Posted in Architecture + Design, Art, Green + Cool, Planet Earth3 Comments
06 May 2010
It is estimated that one third of the world food production depends on the honey bee and its relatives, but unfortunately for us they are disappearing...
Posted in Critical issues, Green Tips, Planet Earth2 Comments
29 April 2010
By 2030 the United Nations estimates two-thirds of our planet will lack access to clean drinking water. Tapped a new documentary by the producers of the mesmerizing 'Who Killed the Electric Car' illustrates the massive ecological damage that the lucrative bottled water industry is causing to the environment.
Posted in Critical issues, Green Tips, Planet Earth3 Comments
26 April 2010
{ Permaculture… } …expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices. Learning to work with the earth not only creates a healthier environment, it also nourishes the people who live in it. Penny Livingston is a permaculture expert and founder of the Permaculture Institute of Northern California and the Regenerative [...]
Posted in Architecture + Design, Green Tips, Planet Earth, Video1 Comment
26 April 2010
FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream.
Posted in Architecture + Design, Critical issues, Green Tips, Video3 Comments
25 April 2010
Interesting time lapse Video of a rotting apple. Ecological apple (experimental short) from Andreas Soderberg on Vimeo.
Posted in Green + Cool, Video0 Comments
25 April 2010
Cerro de Pasco in Peru is Being Eaten By Open Pit Mine. The city is being swallowed by ever-expanding, open-pit zinc and lead mine. A colonial church dating back to 1748 has disappeared, along with the town's center square. You can see the shocking, Sarlacc-like situation from satellite images, notes theGoogle Earth Blog.
Posted in Architecture + Design, Critical issues, Planet Earth3 Comments
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