The beautiful bamboo clothing line Doie has recently launched it’s Spring Collection 07. Elaborating on her theme of dark soft shapes with highlights of oriental style silks the designer Sara Kirsner has expanded her sports/leisure wear collection to include a more structured look. The spring collection includes wrap tops and dresses, halter neck styles and […]
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So said Archinect after reading a new report from the UN entitled “Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges and Opportunities”
“Buildings can play a key role in combating climate change,” the U.N. Environment Program said in a report issued in Oslo during a conference on ways to promote economic growth without damaging the environment. Simple measures […]
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Everyspace is a team of Brookyn designers who “find inspiration in the challenges of urban living and aim to design furniture and household objects that offer creative solutions for city dwelling.” The arrange shelf is designed “to integrate nature and furniture. Originally intended for a front hallway, the shelf functions as a catch-all for your […]
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Last time this author wrote about electric bicycles, he got in trouble for inadvertently suggesting they were mainly for people with health problems and/or the more mature cyclist. This video, which came to us via Powered Bicycles UK, shows how wrong this assumption was. It apparently shows the worlds first electric bike rally, held in […]
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Thank goodness the developed world is not subject to such fractiousness. Otherwise, how would anything positive be accomplished by Kyoto signatories in the face of climate disaster? Via: The Electric New Paper:- At China’s annual session of parliament, the actress Gong Li “put forward a proposal to clean up the environment. However, after […]
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Everything I know about economics (which isn’t much) I have learned from Paul Kedrosky, who notes that nitrogen fertilizer prices have gone through the roof. Corn needs fertilizer and we have noticed that there is a lot of corn being planted these days. Paul says “Why are nitrogen fertilizers costs up so much? Demand is […]
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I just found an important video on youtube regarding a device that can convert Earth’s magnetic field into electricity! Google “Steven Mark Coil”
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Not sure if it’s a scam or not…but do help review it. If it’s a real deal, we can soon replace ALL our electricity generators with this !!!
This is a revolutionary device that […]
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A rather strange - not to say bizzarre - hypothesis on the Conservative decision to restrict income trusts was put forward today (March 31) by Green Party Leader and ostensible progressive, Elizabeth May. Speaking to the Council of Canadians Integrate this! conference on the “deep integration” Security and Prosperity Partnership with the US, May said […]
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CounterPunch There was a time in history when travel diaries were the way people in London, Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam found out about the countries they had yoked to their imperial ambitions. India, Sumatra, and rural Donegal-the places that funneled raw materials and gold into the great imperial centers-came alive in journals and long letters […]
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After wind energy, solar cells, and biofuels, will geothermal energy take off?
It could be the New, New Thing.
It is not without problems; individual sites can become depleted if used excessively.
But all renewable energy sources have their drawbacks. Wind generators, for example, use lots of cement, steel, and space, have lots of moving parts, are noisy, […]
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