Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets By Michael Colombo, makezine.com At the same time, the name of the piece, Forêt (translated to “Forest”) harkens to the material origins of the pallets themselves. As the user sits in the middle of the structure, light passes through the slats much like the sun… http://flpbd.it/M7cNm Related articles … Continue reading Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets
Category: Systems Science
Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK
Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK Mark Boyer, inhabitat.com This month, Paul Testa Architecture obtained planning approval to build an earth-sheltered home in the United Kingdom. The Burrows is a highly sustainable single-family home that will be built into a hillside in South Yorkshire. Because… http://flpbd.it/xjzfJ Related articles … Continue reading Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK
LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs
LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs Let South African Students Connect With Mentors Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Perkins+Will has partnered with Infinite Family, a U.S.-based non profit organization, to build shipping container computer labs in South Africa to help students connect with mentors. The firm completed their first LaunchPad… http://flpbd.it/hhYBw Related articles Twenty-eight containers transform orphange in … Continue reading LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs
Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens
Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens & Urban Farms to Become Self-Sufficient inhabitat.com In response to global urban population, Terreform, Inc.* has come up with an innovative way for New York City to deal with the issues that arise from this world wide problem. The plan, called New York City Steady State (NYCSS), calls … Continue reading Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens
Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk
Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Studio d’Xavier) Trying to think of any reason paying more at the pump is a good thing would stump the average consumer (thinner wallets after paying with cash?), but one and possibly the only good side … Continue reading Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk
Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’?
Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’? Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Photo: AP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may be a Michigan-bred entrepreneur with a successful career in business, but the man knows little about the electric vehicle sector. During his first debate with President Bar… http://flpbd.it/NRZsD Related articles Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They … Continue reading Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’?
ELIOOO is an Instruction Book That Shows You How to Turn IKEA Parts Into a Hydroponic Garden System
ELIOOO is an Instruction Book That Shows You How to Turn IKEA Parts Into a Hydroponic Garden System | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Bridgette Meinhold INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Waterstudio’s Koen Olthuis on FLOAT! Photocredits: Architect Koen Olthuis – Waterstudio.NL and Pieter Kers FLOAT! is a beautiful volume that explores the world … Continue reading ELIOOO is an Instruction Book That Shows You How to Turn IKEA Parts Into a Hydroponic Garden System
A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org by Bill Becker If Mitt Romney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the television cameras at who was watching their first debate, it undoubtedly would have been more interesting than the debate … Continue reading A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors losers
Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors ‘losers’ By Ryan Singel, wired.co.uk Politics In the back and forth of 3 October’s presidential debate over tax breaks to energy companies, Republican nominee Mitt Romney argued that President Obama’s grants and tax breaks to renewable energy companies equalled 50… http://flpbd.it/cDfBf Related articles Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for … Continue reading Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors losers
People and Their Stuff
People and Their Stuff: Huang Qingjun’s “Family Stuff” and Sannah Kvist’s “All I Own” core77.com The Chinese phrase si da jian literally translates as “four big things,” and in 1950s China, it referred to four objects every family wanted to own: A sewing machine, a bicycle, a wristwatch and a radio. Over the decades the … Continue reading People and Their Stuff
Can We Shop Our Way To Change?
Can We Shop Our Way To Change? BY ERIC SMILLIE, fastcoexist.com Through new partnerships with major companies, the formerly tiny Carrotmob is now aiming to use consumers’ buying power to shape global supply chains. When Carrotmob organized its first buy-in at a liquor store in San Francisco’s Mission… http://flpbd.it/CoIY5 Related articles SaveOnBrew Adds Hundreds of … Continue reading Can We Shop Our Way To Change?
It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy. It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont… http://flpbd.it/LDbMq … Continue reading It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future
Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future U.S. Department of Energy, earthtechling.com Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy. Imagine it is a scorching hot summer day, and your smart phone beeps, asking if you’d like it to raise your home thermost… http://flpbd.it/5ps28 Related articles … Continue reading Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future
Slime moulds achieve global domination
Slime moulds achieve global domination By Adam Mann, wired.co.uk Science By traveling from city to city on a map, microscopic protists known as slime moulds have figured out how to take over the world. Starting in Beijing, the slime mould Physarum polycephalum developed a well-organised… http://flpbd.it/WtfT9 Related articles Why the Future May Belong to Slime … Continue reading Slime moulds achieve global domination
The cities of the future will be grown, not built
The cities of the future will be grown, not built By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Technology The cities of the future will have waste-to-energy plants, not shopping malls or churches, at their centre, according to urban designer Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE. Speaking at DLD Cities in London, he said “cities hav… http://flpbd.it/39qUZ Related articles How … Continue reading The cities of the future will be grown, not built
Famous Writers; Small Writing Sheds and Off-the-Grid Huts
Famous Writers’ Small Writing Sheds and Off-the-Grid Huts apartmenttherapy.com Roald Dahl’s writing hut, The Gipsy House When I hear the phrase “writing hut” or “backyard shed” my imagination practically squeals with delight. A small, intimate space furnished with the essentials. Low impact, high inspiration.… http://flpbd.it/VfRZ5 Related articles You Should Not Need A Cabin To Be … Continue reading Famous Writers; Small Writing Sheds and Off-the-Grid Huts
Awesome Oru Origami Kayak
Awesome Oru Origami Kayak Folds Into its Own Compact Carrying Case | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From … Continue reading Awesome Oru Origami Kayak
The New MakerBot Replicator
The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World Chris Anderson, wired.com MakerBot cofounder Bre Pettis says his new 3-D printer, the sleek Replicator 2 (shown at right), has a design that’s “Darth Vader driving KITT while being airlifted by a Nighthawk spy plane.” Photo: Joe Pugliese Take the… http://flpbd.it/5aNso Related articles 3-D Printers at … Continue reading The New MakerBot Replicator
Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming
Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming Colin Tudge, guardian.co.uk The greed for profit is ruining agriculture – and the world – but the trend for local shops and farmers’ markets offers real hope British farmers can’t produce pigs as cheaply as the Poles, or cattle feed as cheaply as the Brazilians, or … Continue reading Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming
How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag
How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag, Increase Fuel Efficiency Alexander George, wired.com Photo: GasPods Industrial designer and underwater photographer Bob Evans got the inspiration for GasPods from the bumps he observed on lobsters’ backs. It seems counterintuitive, but protrusions on an already-streamlined… http://flpbd.it/BuaDx Related articles Food Glorious Food: Burger & Lobster (onefinestay.com) Apparently This Matters: Lobster … Continue reading How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag
re:char | shop-in-a-box
re:char | shop-in-a-box re-char.com shop-in-a-box- an off-grid, open-source factory built from a 20’ shipping container. Rapidly deployable to anywhere in the world, shop-in-a-box enables rapid prototyping and small-run manufacturing in a tiny but effective… http://flpbd.it/6mOdw Related articles Power4Patriots Responds to Super Bowl XLVII Power Outage by Reminding Homeowners of Importance of Solar and Wind Energy … Continue reading re:char | shop-in-a-box
More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2
More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2, Show Futuristic, Spaceship Like Design Henry Taylor-Gill, mactrast.com Some pretty awesome images have recently leaked (via 9to5Mac) of what Apple’s Campus 2 will look like, and let’s just say that it will be unlike any other HQ in the world. The blueprints show what looks like a giant … Continue reading More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2
Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health
Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health David Schultz, npr.org Living next to a noisy highway can be annoying. The racket can also disrupt your sleep. Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pressure and other ailments. Curious researchers with the Centers for… http://flpbd.it/tUoKj Related articles Prevent … Continue reading Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health
Boosted Board electric longboard
Boosted Board electric longboard is lightweight enough to carry, powerful enough to haul riders uphill Michael Gorman, engadget.com Boosted Board isn’t the first powered skateboard to grace these pages, but it is the lightest. In its current prototype form, it weighs just 12 pounds, thanks to a high-end Loaded Vanguard longboard, 2,000W brushless electric motor, … Continue reading Boosted Board electric longboard
Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science
Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science, and by “basic science” I mean “cold fusion” Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I’m not entirely sure what to say about this excerpt from a Washington Examiner interview other than, “*headdesk*”. Mitt Romney: I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of … Continue reading Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science
Towards a New Arcadia
Towards a New Arcadia: Ton Matton on a Simpler Kind of Life core77.com It’s that time of year again: when savvy citydwellers return to the comfort and convenience of their apartments and pick up where they left off before the perennial August slump. (I realize that not all of us—myself included—can afford t… http://flpbd.it/1zN8F
Food Waste Is Overwhelming
Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the latest news on just how often we waste perfectly good food. And we admit, the statistics are pretty depressing. About 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. … Continue reading Food Waste Is Overwhelming
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