Janis R.
Photo: Flickr, CC Negawatts Strike Back The immensely popular LCDs screens that are found everywhere in the modern home (television, computer, laptop, cellphones, etc) use less energy than CRTs, the previous technology, but they are still far from being...
Farmers Market, Union Square, New York City: Photo by Lloyd Alter On the pretext of reviewing five books on food and food politics, Michael Pollan writes a long and interesting essay in the New York Review of Books. He writes that “Cheap food has...
Bustler Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater is now an institute, and needed lodging for participants in its educational programs. They recently held a design competition to build six units that was won by British Columbia’s Patkau Architects....
Photo via Deutsche Welle In its new online short-film documentary series Global Ideas, Germany-based news broadcaster Deutsche Welle draws attention to smart sustainability projects all over the world: island conservation in Micronesia, reforestation...
Image courtesy of MoMa MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) has selected a collection of cork accessories by Pelcor , a global cork fashion brand based in Portugal, as the main draw for their “Destination Portugal” exhibit, opening this month. Pelcor...
A lot of lessons have been learned over the last decade as architects and manufacturers try to make modern green prefab affordable and accessible to a wider audience. A new entry into the market is Challenger, a modern architect-designed line of houses...
Image: Kevin Redding, Arizona State University It is one of the mysteries that makes life on earth possible: plants can grab energy out of sunlight and convert it into chemical energy. This energy works its way up the food chain . Without it, we could...
Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome. (Dwell magazine, November 2009) We are big fans of Dwell Magazine and show a lot of great green design from their pages,...
Photos: Emilio Ambasz (architect). This is what the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art could look like in one year and a half time, when the restoration and extension works that are taking place in the building finish. Green walls and balconies will give...
