Green Buildings
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Less than 5 miles from the Eiffel tower, a 120 foot cylinder rises into the air, not unlike the Egyptian obelisk a little further down the street. This is not a new art installation or a simple flag pole, however, but rather a modified piece of machinery more familiar with ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
LEDs, light-emitting diodes, are the future of household and commercial lighting, there is no doubt about that; they are way more efficient than even compact fluorescent bulbs (they also contain no mercury), use very little electricity, and last about 50,000 hours, meaning they'll probably outlive us all. The question though, ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
General Motors has announced that they are planning on building the world's largest rooftop solar installation, to be located on their car manufacturing plant in Zaragosa, Spain. Well, ok, GM is not actually building it, or even owning it, or operating it, so it might just be a bit of ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Generally we associate Toyota with car manufacturing, but the reality is that Toyota is a massive company that has its hands in aerospace, financial services, education, and even growing flowers. It's the last of those endeavors that has attracted some recent attention because the Japanese giant is using waste C02 ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
A lot has been going on recently in Germany when it comes to solar, from various companies investing heavily in photovoltaics, to the government's shrinking solar subsidy, but this weekend the small town of Marburg passed a law that will require all new houses and those whose roofs or heating ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Many people find museums dry and boring, a place where dead things can be found alongside little cards which poorly describe the grandeur of the specimen sitting behind the glass. Not so with the new California Academy of Sciences, set to open in San Francisco in September this year. The ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Imagine the city of the future, now imagine that it's the coolest city ever, because, well, it is. PopSci has put together what is probably the most comprehensive model of a futuristic city which utilizes green technologies and we have to say, it's awesome. Like the current Masdar project, this ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
We see fuel cells in concept cars, gadgets, and even in an airplane or two, but we generally don't see them hanging around the house. Panasonic, through the Matsushita Group, has decided to change all that and they are "devoting all [their] energies" to the development of their Household Fuel ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
If you haven't yet heard of the Masdar Initiative (concept pictured above), listen up. The project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, who plans to build an entire city, costing $22B and housing over 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses, which would be zero-carbon, zero-waste, and fully sustainable. ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Imagine a parking lot that wasn't radiating heat to your body on a hot summer's day, or one that didn't suck up kilowatts of electricity while being lit overnight. Now imagine one that was covered in solar panels, supported above your head by solar trees, providing shelter from the rain, ...
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