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Photo: Digital Lumens A Bright Idea for the Lighting Industry According to the US Department of Energy, lighting represents about 12% of energy consumption for residential buildings and 25% for commercial ones (presumably because commercial buildings...
2008: candlelight dinner with our new puppy Earth Hour is ten days away, Saturday, March 27. That is ten whole days for skeptics to call it a pointless exercise that doesn’t save any energy at all, and that lighting candles is worse for the environment,...
Photo via rumpleteaser China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practice of cutting off just...
Brazilian Architect Felipe Campolina ’s Portable Housing does not appear to have made it to the finals of the Evolo 2010 skyscraper competition, but has shown up in Designboom. It is perhaps one of the most revolutionary; Your home becomes portable...
Credit: Craig Hatfield via Flickr Got plans for Sweetest Day this year, or Grandparents Day , or one of those other random holidays that you only hear about while walking past the greeting card aisle at your local department store? Maybe just getting...
photo: Matthew McDermott A new piece over at the BBC details Lord Nicholas Stern ’s views on the positive and negative outcomes of COP15 . The positive are pretty much familiar: It may not have been quite what had been hoped for, but it was a step...
photo: Traffic As if you needed another reason to not like the military junta in Burma, wildlife trade monitor group Traffic has just released a new report showing how a porous border with China allows for a “door-to-door delivery service for illegal...
All photos by Amarin Printing and Publishing Last year’s container house by Chuta Sinthuphan of Site-Specific was such a hit at a Bangkok home show that the firm was invited back to do another model. This time, Chuta tells us: “Because when...
photo: Danielle Scott via flickr. I hope I need not tell you that the development of the Canadian tar sands is an unmitigated environmental disaster . We’ve gone over that one at least a dozen times. But what we haven’t covered is the fact...
