Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Dante Bini is a visionary in the Bucky Fuller mode, an engineer experimenting with different technologies, construction techniques and scales, including vast cities in towers and in space. In the sixties, his ideas for building domes by spraying concrete on top of inflated balloons competed with the geodesic dome for mindspace among those experimenting with "organic architecture". In Australia ...
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We have previously shown the Casulo apartment full of furniture in a box and beds in a box; now the Office for Design and Architecture tosses in the room too. It is a "modular dwelling system that can be retrofitted to existing spaces. Designed to be an adjustable yet tailored solution, the ROOM consists of three elements: the Pod, ...
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The AIA (American Institute of Architects) and COTE (AIA Committee on the Environment) once again publish their selections of the top ten green projects of the year, and it is an interesting mix of the high-tech and the simple, elegant, low-key solutions. Some TreeHugger regulars are there, and some we have never heard of before. Metrics used to make ...
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All photos by Tom Arban George Bush once said "I don't do nuance" and most big name architects don't either, subtlety not being a virtue among the stars of the profession. This was never true of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg , who manage to weave their interventions tightly into the existing fabrics of historic buildings and districts. Their new ...
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Image via Sustain Design Studio The miniHome is one of our favorite tiny house designs and we've watched it continually evolve over the last few years. Sustain was at a workshop this week in San Francisco held in conjunction with Dwell , where Andy Thomson and Trevor McIvor presented the newest miniHome model. ... Read the original: miniHome Hitting California ...
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Cameron Sinclair ready for battle Leonora previously posted about TreeHugger hero Cameron Sinclair dropping a bomb in the Barbican Debate in London, "equating asking Zaha Hadid to talk about about ethics in architecture with asking "Robert Mugabe to talk on Human Rights" But it wasn't just a bomb, it was a MIRV , with another warhead landing in the ...
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We often show ingenious ways of hiding the bed. French architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec offer a new one: turn it into a sculptural element, in this case a box hanging from the ceiling. ... Read the original: Another Way To Hide The Bed: Put It In A Box
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Images via: Architecture For Humanity (left) Zaha Hadid Architects (right) There were so many apologies for Zaha Hadid's and her proposed stand in Patrick Schumacher's absence from The Barbican Debate in London last night that Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas didn't even get a name check, even though he too pulled out at the last minute. So what was it ...
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Images: Mitsumasa Fujitsuka It is in a lovely little 800 square foot house in Tokyo by Teruo Miyahara. ... See more here: What's Behind That Wall?
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Dwell magazine covers a terrific renovation in Toronto, where Christine Ho Ping Kong and Peter Tan didn't miss an inch of possible storage space, including this stair.... Here is the original: Stair of the Week: Courtyard House in Toronto
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
