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How Urban Planning Fans the Flames of Revolution
03/05/2011Design & Architecture From our friends at Fast Company, “bridging the fuzzy border between design and business.” The accelerating role social…
Read MoreAmericans Use 11,000 Watts to Live
03/05/2011Science & Technology Gizmodo points us to a crazy statistic: The average American needs a whopping 11,000 watts to function on…
Read MoreHow Dry Can Our Climate Get? Africa’s Lake Victoria Dried Up… 17,000 Years Ago
03/04/2011Science & Technology (science) Take this next one as a sign of how dry the climate has gotten and could get,…
Read MoreDo Large Cities Reverse Climate Change, Population Explosion?
03/04/2011Design & Architecture Big Cities of the Future: LA in BladeRunner Sarah Barmak writes in Corporate Knights, “the Magazine for Clean…
Read MoreAre Plastic Bags the Greenest Option After All?
03/04/2011Business & Politics I must admit I have never really understood the environmentalist obsession with plastic bags. As I noted in…
Read MoreGlobal Investments In Clean Energy to Hit $240 Billion in 2011
03/04/2011Business & Politics Who’s missing from the lede of this Reuters story? It begins: “Brazil, China and India are expected to…
Read MoreAbu Dhabi Celebrates Plastic-Bag-Free Weekend
03/04/2011Business & Politics Jamilah the camel is the symbol of the anti-plastic-bag campaign in the UAE. It may be better known…
Read MoreFlexNatür – Designing Condos For Flexibility And Change
03/04/2011Design & Architecture Studies have shown that multifamily housing in transit oriented neighbourhoods is the most energy efficient, and that more…
Read MoreImagine Eating to Lose Weight (and Save Money)
03/04/2011Ready for what may be the cheapest and least time-consuming weight-loss technique of all time? Imagine eating a lot of a…
Read MoreHeinz Adopts Coca-Cola PlantBottles
03/03/2011Starting this summer, Heinz ketchup will be appearing in plant-based bottles developed by Coke. The Coca-Cola Company and H.J. Heinz yesterday…
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