Images by B. Alter Grand Designs Live is a biiiiig show, covering every aspect of home design: building products, gardens, interior design, technology and show homes. It’s a great place to gather ideas and information and it is quite environmental in its outlook . This year’s show homes featured two very different green houses. The first, called the Pilotis, by Gaukroger and Partners , is an experimental pod made from English chestnut shingles and standing on Douglas… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Grand Designs Live Features Inventive Green Houses
The following is a guest post by Steve Mouzon, green architect and owner of Mouzon Design in Miami Beach, Florida. I’m an architect by trade, although I now spend more time writing and speaking. Looking back over my profession’s bumps and starts these past forty years, it’s easy to be depressed. I was ten years old at the first Earth Day . My mother opened her health food store shortly thereafter, and in the years that followed, she brought in a long series of lecturers discussing the mo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Let’s Return to the Original Green: Moving From a Consuming Economy to a Conserving Economy
Photo via DVice In 1851, the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace started the boom in World’s Fairs as ” Great Britain made clear to the world its role as industrial leader .” Shanghai is pretty much like that, with the nations of the world putting their best foot forward to impress. After all, build a better expo pavilion and people will beat a path to your door. Some even make a pretence of being green, notwithstanding their disposable nature…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Shanghai Expo 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Pavilions (Slideshow)
This is a guest post by Gabriella Levine George Orwell was wrong. Although he said advanced technology would create authoritarianism, it actually leads to decentralization and democratization. That was the message of Julia Vitullo-Martin, the director of the Center for Urban Innovation of the Regional Planning Association (RPA) at the RPA’s annual conference, “Innovation and the American Metropolis,” held in New York City on Friday, April 16th. And it was an idea that animated everyone who came for the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Future of the City: A Review of the RPA’s 20th Annual Conference
Photo: NOAA Potentially Serious Long-Term Impacts The Gulf of Mexico, where a massive oil spill is taking place right now, is also the spawning ground for the critically endangered (according to the IUCN Red List) bluefin tuna. Stocks have already fallen about 90% since the 1970s, and they could fall even closer to extinction because of this catastrophe. Indeed, the location of the spill and the timing are particularly bad for the bluefin tuna…… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Will the BP Oil Spill Affect Critically Endangered Bluefin Tuna?
All images via Rafaa With its burgeoning economy and bold commitments to reducing carbon emissions and deforestation , Brazil is poised to be an important player in the years and decades to come. So for many Brazilian, having their beloved city of Rio de Janeiro selected to host the 2016 Olympic Games presents an opportunity to introduce their nation, on the forefront of the
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Huge Artificial Waterfall Structure Designed for Rio
The Eco-Diet Exhibition asks, What Unnecessary Object can we lose? The Green Dot Awards threw a reception on Thursday for winners of its biannual honors for innovative environmental projects, products and services. An international group of impressive winners that spanned areas from transportation and design to building and entertainment/culture, covered both both practical and conceptual ideas of greenness. At a time when the eco-movement is gaining mainstream acceptance, these forward-thinkers take green to a new level of sustainability with entries hailing from Glasgow to Turkey, and the st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From Soap Nuts to Solar Lilies: Green Dot’s Innovations Awards
Photo via DesignBoom I went to Milan and what did I find? The world of the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 is like no other — In fact, it’s probably the only place in the world where punches are thrown at couches, tomatoes light up, houses are all in stone, plants are lamps, birds eat lamps, and cars are clad in eclectic vintage fabric. And this was all sprinkled with a hefty dash of volcanic ash. Yes, we have this and much,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image from EcoForce Grand Designs, the t.v. house make-over series , has had a good track record of featuring green and ecological houses on the show and in their magazine. This year Kevin McCloud, the star, architect, and presenter of the popular series has chosen what he considers to be the best green entrepreneurs in the world of home design. McCloud wanted to chose some fun and interesting products that he thought should get more exposure. How about upholstery made of nettles, chairs made from bank notes and … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Grand Designs’ Green Heroes Honoured
Rendering of “T-Garden” by Luca Trazzi. Photo via Interni Philippe Starck — one of the participants in the FuoriSalone 2010 Interni Think Tank exhibition held at the same time as the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 — is one charismatic guy. He won me over way back in 2004, when I met him personally and watched his speech on the design of a building that included a
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Stone Houses, Solar Flowers, and More at Interni Think Tank