It is all in french, but even if you don't understand a word, watch these incredible animations made almost entirely out of cardboard.
...
-
Categories
-
Archives
It is all in french, but even if you don't understand a word, watch these incredible animations made almost entirely out of cardboard.
...
-10% for 2008
Hybrid cars have suffered from a power 1-2 combo punch in recent months. First, the global economic meltdown (housing bubble bursting, credit crunch, etc) sharply reduce car sales overall, and then oil prices fell like a rock, reducing the pain at the pump. This resulted in a year with a 10% drop in hybrid vehicle sales, and a staggering -42.8% in December compared to last year. Read on for more....
06 Jan
77% of Hong Kong Residents Think Unsafe Food a Major Concern: Ahead of Air Quality, Global Warming
If the air quality wasn’t bad enough, Kong Kong citizens have plenty of other environmental concerns to worry about...They're just harder to photograph. Photo: Adrian Furby
You might have seen John’s earlier post on how one in five Hong Kong residents is considering leaving the city due to air pollution. In case you don’t have the population of Kong Kong at your fingertips, that translates in about 1.4 million people. And about 500,000 of those are actually making...
Pyatt Studios
Many older cities have infrastructures with back lanes, relics of an era when streets were for people, and you kept the horses and the cars in the rear. It worked well; you could put the houses on narrower lots, and the garages were useful for a lot more than just vehicles. It also provides a great opportunity for urban intensification, although it is really tough to get approved and defines the term NIMBY. But who could say no to something as elegant as this studio in Boulder proposed by Rob Pyatt?...
photo: Andrew Bossi
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, along with a coalition of partners has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia which seeks to force the EPA to enforce laws requiring the reduction of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay to levels that the bay can be removed from the federal ‘impaired waters’ list.
Speaking on why the action was taken CBF president William Baker said,...
Image: Plain Dealer
Forty years ago, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. It was not the first time a river (even the Cuyahoga) caught fire, but like Apollo 8's earthrise photos, it became an important event in the raising of awareness of environmental issues in America. "The burning river mobilized the nation and became a rallying point for passage of the Clean Water Act," and inspired Randy Newman's Burn On. It was importa...
Only those three last bastions of freedom and the right to choose, the United States, Liberia, and Burma, still do not use the Metric System. Until now, one could justify this on the basis that the 
click here to go to video. Image BBC
TreeHugger has referred to Archigram, the group of British Architects and students out of the AA (Architectural Association School) that came up with plug-in cities, walking cities, blow-up cities and other ideas that are all the rage again. Now the BBC has picked up on it, with a recent interview of Peter Cook, one of the key players in Archigram and not a comedic partner of Dudley Moore. ...
Pardon the audio quality in portions of this, but check out some eyewitness accounts of the aftermath of the TVA coal ash spill: Basically a slow response on the part of TVA (clip above) and the type of damage which has happened (see clip below). Clips were recorded by United Mountain Defense. ...
Read the Original Post -->
This week we ring in 2009 with the first Carnival of the year! Carnival of the Green #161 is being hosted by Tao of Change, a blog that shares a boots-on-the-ground view of the way things are changing in our communities and in the world.
So head on over to this week's Carnival to find a round up of green news and events from the past week, submitted by other bloggers and green sites.
To learn more about Carnival of the Green, where it will be and how to host, please click here to link...