Bird Island: Zero energy home in Kuala Lempur

Bird Island is a stunning urban renewal project that is currently being developed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Designed by Graft Labarchitects for the YTL Green Home Competition, the project comprises a zero energy home made of sustainably-sourced silicone glass fabric. Its lightness and flexibility will allow it to sway organically with the breeze just like a treetop, and slots in the [...]

‘One million jobs in wind power’ by 2010

One million people will be employed in the world wind-power industry by the end of the decade, despite the impact of the financial crisis, it was forecast today.
Amid predictions that the world would need to install one new turbine every 25 minutes to reach global renewables targets, energyexperts at a green summit in Abu Dhabi said [...]

Sweden’s Sweeping Green Roofed Hillside City

by Mike Chino

Nestled beneath an undulating series of rolling green roofs, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects New Heden project transforms a vacant city block is a self-contained sustainable city interspersed with cycling paths and walkways. Envisioned as a “green lung” for Gothenburg, Sweden, the development will introduce a beautiful expanse of fresh green space to an area currently consumed by parking lots and football [...]

Viewpoint: The Low-Carbon Diet. Change your light-bulbs? Or your car? If you want to fight global warming, it’s time to consider a different diet.

By Mike Tidwell
 I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. I worship slow-cooked, hickory-smoked pig meat served on a bun with extra sauce and coleslaw spooned on top. My carnivore’s lust goes beyond the DNA level. It’s in my soul. Even the cruelty of [...]

Artful beekeeping | Nectar Corridors

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Berliners need you to sponsor sculptural hive

By Stephan Orsolini and Erika Mayr
Editor’s Note: In September 2004, two Berliners, Stéphane Orsolini and Erika Mayr, visited Detroit after participating in the German-funded international Shrinking Cities competition. They greeted the city with a proposal for urban beekeeping [...]

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Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip
It’s much, much later than you think
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This really isn’t about polar bears any more. At this very moment, the fate of civilization itself hangs in the balance.
It turns out that the way we have been calculating the future impacts of [...]

Exclusive | The Methane Time Bomb

This is an important article on the progression of climate change that we will most not likely see in the mainstream media anytime soon.
Methane Reported Bubbling up from Ocean Floor, Indicating Possible Permafrost Release. Posted by Joseph Romm, ClimateProgress, September 23, 2008. “The UK’s Independent reported today some pretty shocking [...]

Berkeley Approves City-Backed Loans for Solar Panels

Berkeley Approves City-Backed Loans for Solar Panels. By Felicity Barringer, NYTimes, September 17, 2008. “The Berkeley City Council moved late Tuesday to eliminate one of the biggest obstacles to making homes more energy-efficient: the upfront cost. In a move being watched by other cities around the country, the Council [...]

Alarming Photos of Water at Fanshawe Lake

Alarming photos from a member of the Council of Canadians | London esteemed water protection committee.
Apparently, the UTRCA (Upper Thames River Conservation Authority) use to have a program called CURB (clean up Rural beaches) which worked with farmers to control run off.  When the Tories came to power in 1995, they killed the UTRCA budgets [...]

New office park to beat ‘2030 Challenge’

By Paul Jones
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:02 PM PDT
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American Assets, the San Diego developer that recently applied for approval for its ambitious Fireman’s Fund office park renovation project, claimed in an Aug. 12 press release that its projections show that the project could be “carbon neutral” within 10 years, significantly ahead of the “2030 [...]