published April 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Kohn Shnier Prefab Cottage for Two Families. image: Lloyd Alter Every year the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canada Council give out the Governor General's Awards. She says "The Canadian architects we are honouring have the gift of designing not only buildings, places and monuments, but living spaces that give soul to our cities, villages and communities." ...
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published April 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Matt Smythe with his rejected iPhone app Joe Gibbons/The Telegram When a Newfoundlander says "lets go clubbing" they are not talking about hitting the bars. They are instead pursuing a tradition that dates back commercially to the 1700s, protecting our fisheries by removing an excess population that is dining on cod and in desperate need of culling. St. John's ...
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published April 27, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Owen Renn via flickr. All I can say is wow! Mongabay is highlighting a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which reveals that between 2000 and 2005 over one million square kilometers of forest were chopped down worldwide, with both the United States and Canada losing a greater percentage of forest than the ...
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published April 27, 2010 and has No Comments
OK, there is nothing new about power bars with a switch on them, except people rarely turn off the switch. And even if they have a switch, it may not have a light so it is not exactly in your face reminding you. Enter the OnPlug. This seven dollar unit has a switch on the top and a bright ...
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published April 26, 2010 and has No Comments
Image by Martin Hartley via Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 "Today I was caught out on the thin ice with my feet between two ice islands. I started to lose my balance, but as quick as a flash Charlie grabbed my harness and pulled me back." These are the words of Ann Daniels, one of the intrepid explorers currently trekking ...
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published April 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Building one's own energy-efficient home from the foundation up can seem like a daunting task, especially with the huge range of options out there. Some fundamental questions include: what are your needs and budget? How will you site your home? What materials will you use? And of course: to go off-grid or to not go off-grid? A large part ...
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published April 11, 2010 and has No Comments
"What breath of fresh air" by Algis Kemezys Photographer, filmmaker, and sculptor Algis Kemezys was inspired to make a series of surreally altered pieces of environmental art by an incident that would have left many people too bereft to have done much at all: a catastrophic fire that burned down his family home and destroyed much of his previous ...
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published April 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Scott Bauer, ARS.USDA Piglets Inherit Genetic Modification Canada has approved limited production of animals dubbed "enviropigs™," a genetically modified breed of pigs producing up to 65% less phosphorous in pig poo and urine. The pigs pass the genetic modification along to their young, as well. The very idea that a genetically modified animal rates the moniker "enviro-" points ...
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published April 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Scott Bauer, ARS.USDA Piglets Inherit Genetic Modification Canada has approved limited production of animals dubbed "enviropigs™," a genetically modified breed of pigs producing up to 65% less phosphorous in pig poo and urine. The pigs pass the genetic modification along to their young, as well. The very idea that a genetically modified animal rates the moniker "enviro-" points ...
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published March 30, 2010 and has No Comments
photos by Lloyd Alter unless noted So many of our smaller towns and cities are in trouble; just a few weeks ago I wrote about one that was demolishing an entire street of empty buildings . Others pull themselves together and reinvent themselves. Guelph, Ontario is such a place; a few years ago citizens formed a Civic League to ...
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