Via (wait for it): Inhabitat, Greenroofs, Designflute and the architects, Atkins.
Songjiang Hotel in Songjiang, China, would have to be the coolest I’ve ever seen (or it will be, once built).
Built directly into the side of a former quarry, it has minimal environmental impact (I mean, for a hotel that size), and uses geo-thermal energy for […]
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When I bumped into the PLANKTOS website yesterday, it was a different kind of experience. The read struck a special chord because of my background in environmental physics. With the recent hoopla in environment restoration, CO2 reduction, and green investments, PLANKTOS’s mission and business model seem very innovative.
The San Francisco based for-profit ecorestoration company operates both […]
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We recycle paper, of course. But recycling paper is actually only a start. A better option for some of the paper we recycle is for it not to show up at our houses in the first place. Every day I stand over the recycle bin tossing in paper junk mail (including ripping the plastic windows […]
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Variety reports that Gerard Butler is continuing to spin his 300 box office success into future roles (notice how this didn’t happen after Phantom of the Opera?) Butler will costar with Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin in the Fox Walden fantasy adventure, Nim’s Island.
The pitch: It’s like a pre-teen Lost. Breslin will play a […]
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Esperanza came to clean the house today. The smell of toxic chemicals soon filled the kitchen. I have been meaning to replace all our existing household cleaning products with safer, green alternatives. Have not gotten around to it yet. I have the info stored somewhere on my computer, but I have been too lazy to […]
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This This is a picture or two of (parts of) a rather nice staircase that I have just spent two weeks French-polishing.
Most of the people who read this blog must be libertarians. By definition that means you are all fairly intelligent, well-read people who can also sometimes write and argue well; it kind of goes […]
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We are also for the first time co-hosting a stand at Decorex at the Sandton convention centre in August 2007 with the Design magazine and the theme is Green by Design. We have invited various product suppliers that are manufacturing recycled raw materials. We hope that in conjunction with Decorex we will be able to […]
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There’s a short article in the current print edition of Resurgence magazine on how the Scottish ‘ecovillage’ of Findhorn comes to have the lowest ecological footprint ever recorded a community in the affluent ‘North’. Three factors explain this: the way the community shares goods and services; the way its food is managed; […]
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If you have some time today sit down and watch this film. It is about the Mclibel trial and I think many activists and people in general owe a lot to these two people.
It truly is incredible that handing out a leaflet can get you involved in the longest legal battle in British history, and […]
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