Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Light Up Malawi

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Light Up Malawi from Raina Kumra on Vimeo.

Light Up Malawi is one of my good friend Raina’s latest projects and a great cause. Please pledge $10 now!

It’s electric!

Friday, March 27th, 2009

nrc.nl – International – Watch out – electric cars are coming to Amsterdam
Apparently only electric vehicles will be allowed in Dutch city centers. In 2040.

“How the Crash Will Reshape America”

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Declining cities, mass transit, velocity, spikiness, creative clusters, incentives, urban geography – this article by  Richard Florida covers just about everything we’re interested in at the Seattle Project.

And now you know

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

BLDGBLOG: The mine hijackers

Glaciers are the future of architectural design.

Artifical Nature

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

As the saying goes, God made the world but the Dutch made the Netherlands. Of course, no landscape is untouched: walk through the British countryside and what seems to be untouched forests and hills turn out be forests planted several centuries ago and hills continuously molded over the past millenia by human activity. On the road from Haarlem to Schipol I once saw a grass-covered ziggurat-shaped hill with an incredibly straight alley of trees running by it. Rather than pretending that their environment isn’t man-made – the British aren’t the only offenders at maintaining such an illusion though I think they’re some of the worst – the Dutch celebrate the artificialness of their landscape. Building on that thought, there’s a great piece in the Herald Tribune about an MIT professor encouraging a polluted region in Italy to embrace man-made nature.

Word

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Los Angeles’ carbon footprint is a light one — sort of – Los Angeles Times

“The Mississippi River roughly divides the country into high and low emitters,” it says. “In 2005, all but one of the 10 largest per capita emitters were located east of the Mississippi.”

Proof again of the inherent superiority of the West Coast! =)

Suburbanization Worldwide

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The USA Today, of all papers, has a good summary of worldwide suburbanization trends: Modern suburbia not just in America anymore

“Transport informatics”

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

This article is just amazing: cityofsound: Transport informatics

And Jack, you’ll like that Boston is doing some cool stuff with biking.

Bike network 2.0
Boston appointed a ‘bike czar’, Nicole Freedman, and her team has used Google Maps to create a set of bike routes across the city, based on the aggregated data from actual routes that cyclists took across the city“We found out where the actual desire lines are,” said Freedman, and has since extended the network to enable users to rate streets for bikes. It’s a little rudimentary at the moment, but shows the promise of such systems. Boston are building the city’s first official bike map from the results of the system.

Nukes!

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Nuke Power: The Future Is Coming Up Nukes

Nuclear power is the other alternative energy – cleaner than biomass, and less retarded than ethanol.

Best slogan ever!

“Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ”

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Pruned: Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ

Has your village been flooded with landmines or is it now downwind from a nuclear meltdown?

Don’t panic. Let’s garden!

Fascinating.