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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Home-brewing gets chic with this pared-down kit that brings wine-making out of the basement and into the living room or kitchen. Read more here: Elegant DIY Wine-Making Kit by Sabine Marcelis (Video)
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Images Credit Dash Marshall From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Children dream about being astronauts. Adults dream about... orderliness. Architect Dash Marshall has managed to merge the two to create the ultimate big-kid fantasy: a super-slick NYC apartment that looks poised for intergalactic orbit. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Five years ago I wrote about my new iPod Nano , the 1 ounce, 8 dram wonder that I called the green product of the year. I wrote that it "demonstrates that brilliant design can let us all live as well or better than we do now in less space, using fewer resources and with a smaller footprint. The ...
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Image credit Gizmodo There is a trend in architecture to try and actively promote health and exercise; The New York Times Building has prominent, bright stairs for circulation; Tom Mayne's San Francisco Federal Building's elevators... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: Slides Help Make Architecture Healthy and Fun
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Broadacre City. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950-1955. [Image via urbannebula.nl.] The politics and planning of our food system is a big topic these days, with urban farming being all the rage. In Design Observer, Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landcape Architecture at Harvard, looks back at earlier approaches to merging agriculture and urbanity, at the way that urban ...
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Preston at Jetson Green and Frida at Inhabitat discuss these lovely looking glass roofing tiles from SolTech Energy in Sweden. It is a solar thermal system, that transfers heat from the air to water that can be used for heating. Frida describes it at Inhabitat: ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the original: Do Glass ...
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Eames Office Every year the Eames Office, heirs to the legacy of the great designers Charles and Ray Eames, celebrates the Powers of Ten on 10.10. This year is special, being 10.10.10. Jamer Hunt at Fast Company suggests that the film is probably more relevant and important than ever, particularly in this era of Google Earth, where everyone with ...
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Herman Miller desk credit imaginary forces Desks, offices and the future of work are common topics of discussion around our virtual water cooler. Our own desks vary widely (see them in a slideshow here ) and sometimes we don't have one at all. Creative agency Imaginary Forces makes a strong case for the desk in a beautiful little film ...
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A lot of people are trying to figure out ways to use up the vast amount of pine-beetle infested timber that is all going to rot away; (Bonnie wrote about it in Turning Beetle-Infested Wood to Good (Design) Use ). Now the University of Northern British Columbia has come up with an interesting idea: Mountain Pine Beetle Wood Concrete, ...
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(All images: SRD Change 2010) For the past seven year now the SRD (Society for Responsible Design) have held their Change design exhibition showing the latest graduate student thinking around environmentally and socially responsible design solutions. And this year its on again. Right now. So, if you want to know where the fresh green thinking is imagining our world ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
