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The Lugner Bridge rises from the Otto Wagner metro station and hovers above the avenue, connecting pedestrians to the shopping and sports complex above. The escalator from the street stretches to the bridge at an odd, trapezoidal [...] In just under a week, the toilet bike will begin a 100% biogas-fueled journey from Kyushu to Tokyo, making press stops to answer questions by inevitably bewildered spectators. Toilet Bike Neos commode rests atop a three-wheeled motorcycle, with receptacle tank behind [...] If youre a regular reader of Inhabitat, you know that we have a soft spot for small houses. It may be because they are often cleverly designed, or because they are low-impact, or maybe because so many of us on the team live in a small house! The new book Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings by Phyllis Richardson (due out this fall) is [...] The C3 is a three-bedroom, three-bath house located in an urban setting and is surrounded by other houses. The 2,039 [...] I will admit to being highly skeptical of plantable seed paper. As a green blogger, I had collected a small box full of the paper from sources such as a Silk soy milk desk calendar made from the stuff, to a thank you card, to a bookmark, and more. I couldn’t recycle them because I felt guilty about the plants that could be hiding [...] Libeskinds addition commemorates the reopening of the war museum after a 22 year closure. The neo-classical building was originally an arsenal for the German Armed forces, so Libeskind designed the angular wedge to symbolize the grave disruption [...] The Port Authority wanted their new facility to be unique, serve as a landmark in the harbor and be easily [...] MIT researchers just officially unveiled a device that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The device builds upon a breakthrough hydrogen producing technology developed in 2008, and they are calling it an artificial leaf because of it capacity to create chemical fuels directly from sunlight. The cell is also made from common materials like silicon, cobalt and nickel, which means that the leaf [...] Carlisle spends his spare time digging through flea markets, thrift shops, and antique stores, or sifting through items given to him by family and friends for his materials. Items used in his designs include everything from percolators [...] Summer may be coming to an end, but our longing for the sea and sand hit us with full force when we saw this gorgeous collection of Living Sails Furniture by Dvelas. Repurposed by hand from canvas no longer appropriate for use as sails, each piece is designed to evoke the spirit of the boats from whence they came, and the seas they once helped to navigate. [...] Lucky Snowboards is a new line of snowboards made from bamboo, hemp and poplar. The US-basedcompany of the same name takes boarding one step further by banking on stellar craftsmanship, quality and performance. Lucky places the use of eco-friendly materials at the core of their production process to reduce their carbon footprint, and to push green principles to the mainstream they even power their offices 100% with wind [...] PSA Peugeot Citroen has just revealed its futuristic new VELV electric concept car at the ADEME innovation forum. This tiny car with a narrow rear track is envisioned as being created only for rental or corporate fleets. We cant really understand why the consortium of French car [...] Harbin is a city of 7 million located in the snowy north of China, and is known as an ice city. Drawing upon that, Hassell created a design that integrated within Harbins crystalline icescape, and [...] Hamonic +Masson Each of the 62 flats have three rooms, 66 square meters of floor space, and a compact space-saving arrangement. Even so, tall windows allow for [...] The 4,200 square foot building utilizes active house principles to produce energy while creating a healthy interior climate for its occupants. The compact triangle design optimizes sun intake through a set of Velux roof windows and two extensive [...] Carlise spends his spare time digging through flea markets, thrift shops, and antique stores, or sifting through items given to him by family and friends for his materials. Items used in his designs include everything from percolators [...] Last December aBangladesh factory fire broke out that killed 30 people and injured dozens of others. The factory,Thats It Sportswear, is a garment factory just north of the capital of Dhaka that offers brands suchAbercrombie Fitch,Gap, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and JCPenney.Negotiations were made to compensate the families of those killed in the fire, but it looks likeJCPenney has suddenly backed out of the [...] An old recycling depot in a suburb near Melbourne may seem like an unlikely place to see some of Australias most acclaimed furniture designers, chefs, architects and artists, but thats where many of them go for inspiration and materials. People like Vue de Mondes Shannon Bennett, furniture designer Mark Tuckey, eco-entrepreneur Joost Bakker, architect Jerry Wolveridge and artist David Bromley are all regular visitors at Waste Converters , [...] Swedish eco-designers, Ehrnberg Solutions AB, have just completed their most successful prototype of the floating SeaTwirlvertical wind turbine. The device captures and harvests offshore wind, without having to convert the energy as it is being stored. SeaTwirl is the first of its kind with only two moving parts, and it uses only sea water as a roller [...] The Obama Administration pushed back strongly Wednesday against a claim by a government watchdog that the agency should have sought outside scientific review on the human impacts of climate change. The Office of the Inspector General, investigating charges that the U.S Environmental Protection Agency cut corners in its bid to restrict greenhouse gas emissions, found that the rulemaking was sound but that the agency should have sought an independent peer-review of the science before deciding that greenhouse gases [...] Weve been sitting on the edges of our seats all day, anxiously awaiting todays Engineering Contest results at the 2011Solar Decathlon. The results were just announced, and were happy to report that Team New Zealands First Light House has taken the title! The teams win is certainly well-deserved, and we admit we already found ourselves swooning over the design well before we even started touring theNational [...] What is your favorite 2011 Solar Decathlon House? 4 Votes Sci_Arc/Caltech – CHIP 8 Votes New Zealand – First Light 10 Votes Team Canada – TRTL 2 Votes Parsons + Stevens – [...] Solar activity sometimes causes disturbances through massive flares, but the energy can also be used to increase in-space propulsion capability harnessing solar power with solar sails could expand future exploration potential by increasing spacecraft efficiency and lower operating costs. NASA recently announced plans to advance the technology by rolling out the largest solar sail ever created in 2015, the next generation solar sail spacecraft will deploy and [...] Roundles, h2 architecture from Logan MacDougall Pope on Vimeo. The pool houses design is decidedly minimalist with a muted, natural color palette evocative of the landscape that envelops it. The fin walls are [...] Germany has just staked its claim in solar energy, building the worlds largest photovoltaic solar park with Unlimited Energy and the Saferay company. Constructed in eastern Germany near the city of Senftenberg, a portion of the 166-megawatt park was recently opened by German officials. The park repurposed otherwise unusable land that was once occupied by an open-pit mine. |
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