Filed under: Gadgets and Tech Re:Vision, an online community of people dedicated to re-thinking urban space to encourage sustainability, is hosting a new competition that seeks concepts on how to turn a run-down urban block into "a thriving mixed-use area that centers on the family and supports local sustainable businesses." Reps from the site will then meet the community’s leaders, and the result will ideally spawn similar transformations in other neighborhoods. Re:Vision asks competitors to consider green building and sustainable techniques wherever the design allows. The project sounds fun and new and innovative, but those characteristics mean nothing if the targeted community isn’t receptive to change. I’m also wary of projects like these that focus on completely re-vamping a single urban block into some designer’s idea of what is hip and trendy, under the guise of creating an eco-friendly spot. It seems that these design competitions are not so ...
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Green Blog Tour: DIY wallpaper for pennies and hanging light bulb vasesFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:39:17
Filed under: Home , Green Blog Tour Join us as we take a tour of the green blogosphere. Ready? Let’s go. Wallpaper for pennies. It was the wallpaper Stephanie Zhong of Fabulously Green took note of while turning the pages of a furniture catalog. The wallpaper on the page featuring a $6,000 dollar Italian-crafted bed was newspaper. As she noted, if it was recycled newspaper, the cost was minimal. Motivated by the possibilities of recycled design, Stephanie created a list of idea...
more From brownfield to big boxFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:44:19
Filed under: News How do you convince big-name companies to build their stores and office buildings on top of heavily polluted land? It’s easier than you think. First, come up with a more pleasing name for these sites than "heavily polluted former trash dump." In this case, " brownfield " does the trick. And second, you start a "Brownfield Reimbursement Program," wherein you convince the builders to overhaul the sites before they build, and let them recoup 75% of the cleanup c...
more Pacific plastic dump unfixable, says oceanographerFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:44:26
Filed under: News , Polit-eco , Activism Remember reading about that huge floating island of plastic crap out in the middle of the Pacific that’s twice the size of the continental United States? How’d it make you feel when you saw that? Proud of humanity’s technological ability to dominate the earth completely? Ashamed and depressed as hell? Well, wait til you hear the sequel.
Green Tech Blog reports on Charles Moore, an oceanographer who’s just returne...
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