via allygator shuttle website Our mission We dream of a car free city where space is for people and not for parking. Our allygator shuttle is driving the way towards car-free cities. Attitudes within the mobility sector are changing, opening the way for...
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India’s Auroville Shows the Way in Green Living
Johanna Treblin copyright Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Photos by Maja Mueller + Hans-Peter Kraus) Summers on the eastern Indian coast are hot and dusty with temperatures often shooting up to 40 degrees Celsius. The red sand in this eastern part of the...
Read moreThe Real Junk Food Project
via website The Real Junk Food Project We are a global, organic network of pay as you feel cafes. We divert food destined for waste and use it to create delicious and healthy meals. What do we do? To learn more about ‘pay as you feel’ and what the Real...
Read moreGeodesic dome protects cob house & family of 6 in Arctic Circle
Via treehuger by Kimberley Mok source inhabitat Picture Source Naturhuset The Arctic Circle has some of the harshest climate you can imagine: long, cold, dark winters and short summers. Yet this is the very place that the Hjertefølgers, a family of six,...
Read moreOn the Making of Trump—The Blind Spot That Created Him
via Huffington Post by Otto Schramer Co-founder u.lab, Senior Lecturer, MIT; Thousand Talents Program Professor, Tsinghua University We have entered a watershed moment not only here in America, but also globally. It’s a moment that could help us wake...
Read moreWater: The essence of life
via Nexus Newsfeed Blog Water is the essence of life. The human body cannot survive without water because it is so critical for all bodily functions. In fact, on average, the body of an adult human being contains 60 percent of water.1 Not drinking adequate...
Read moreIsrael’s striking LAHO House is wrapped with colorful reclaimed wood
via inhabitat source Arch Daily by Ana Lisa Brahma-Architects turned trash into treasure with their striking LAHO House. Located in a communal settlement in Israel called Hofit, the family home combines minimal lines with found materials. A colorful reclaimed...
Read moreThese floating Jellyfish Lodges purify polluted water and air while growing food
via inhabitat by Katie Medlock Could a fleet of floating jellyfish purify our polluted rivers and streams? That's the idea behind Janine Hung's Jellyfish Lodge, which protects the land, air, and water while growing healthy food. A combination of trash-collecting...
Read more"hand HEAD heart" schumacher college
25 Years ..What Next? Two weeks ago, 300 people gathered in Totnes Civic Hall, Devon, UK, to celebrate 25 years of Schumacher College and consider 'What Next?' for this pioneering educational place, specialising in learning for a more sustainable, just...
Read moreWhat's a Passive House? Here's a good simple explanation
via TreeHugger by Lloyd Alter What is a a Passive House? One critic of Passive House design called it “a single metric ego driven enterprise that satisfies the architect's need for checking boxes, and the energy nerd's obsession with BTUs.” But over at...
Read moreInsight Sustainabilty 3: SOIL_Column by Simon
MapMakersWorld Author: Simon Poeschel At first please excuse the long break after my last blog. Amongst others I spent four weeks on my bike cycling through northern Italy. The matter of fact that you can find in almost every small village a small café,...
Read moreEffekt ReGen Villages Self-sustaining Eco-communities
via Effekt Hans-Peter´s comment: It is the second post about that project see the First . The project is called RegenVillage is a Tech-Integrated and Regenerative Residential Real Estate Developmentnon profit. It also runs the ReGen Labs - a non-profit...
Read moreFuture My Love by THE VENUS PROJECT
via websiteFUTURE MY LOVE Hans-Peters comment: If you a Futurist or interested in our Future The Venus Project you need to be aware of. The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order...
Read more100+ makers eco-hack the future with open-source prototypesource prototypes for a fossil-free, zero waste society
By Derek Markham (@derekmarkham) via ANB Source Treehuger 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, and geeks gathered at POC21 and spent five weeks developing 12 sustainable lifestyle technologies. When a group of talented and committed individuals...
Read moreInsight Sustainabilty: SOIL_Column by Simon
Author: Simon Poeschel When I was asked for writing some blogs about sustainability, I've thought many times how to start that column. Lots of ideas came to my mind but at least I decided it would be the best beginning with dirt. Why dirt? Our planet...
Read moreSolar-powered wooden lofts heated independently of Amsterdam’s grid
via inhabitat by Lidija Grozdanic Source ANA architects Dutch design studio ANA architects connected four plots in Amsterdam to create a series of lofts built entirely of wood. Houtlofts use solar energy, heat recovery systems and other sustainable features...
Read moreWe like to say: Welcome Simon as new Author on our Team!
Selfintroduction by Simon Author: Simon Poeschel At the beginning of this column (will be soon posted Red.) I, Simon, want to introduce myself shortly because afterwards you'll probably understand my conclusions better. Of course their origin lies in...
Read moreNoah Oasis Skyscraper transforms offshore oil rigs into vertical bio-habitats
via inhabitat by Lidja Grozdanic The Noah Oasis project transforms offshore oil rigs into vertical bio-habitats that help clean up oil spills and restore damaged marine eco-systems. These floating structures are meant to populate global waters, absorbing...
Read moreMasdar’s failed sustainable city may be doomed to become a green ghost town
via The Guardian Masdar City was supposed to represent the future of sustainable energy and, for a while, it did that. More than a decade in development, the planned community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi is falling well short of its original goals....
Read moreLush green oasis and rooftop farm will reinvent Paris streets
via inhabitat by Lucy Wang The Paris of tomorrow will be a whole lot greener. Jacques Ferrier Architecture (JFA), Chartier Dalix Architectes, and SLA Landskab won the international design competition “Reinventer Paris” with the Multi-Layered City, a proposal...
Read moreInsight Sustainabilty: SOIL_Column by Simon
by Simon Poeschl When I was asked for writing some blogs about sustainability, I've thought many times how to start that column. Lots of ideas came to my mind but at least I decided it would be the best beginning with dirt. Why dirt? Our planet is covered...
Read moreOpen Source Blueprints for Civilization. Build Yourself.
via website open source ecology We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient...
Read moreWhat is The Venus Project?
via venus project The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the...
Read moreScientists are turning salt water into drinking water using solar power
via alert science By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won...
Read moreTansy Aspinall And The Gorillas: Reunited At Last! - OFFICIAL VIDEO
http://www.aspinallfoundation.org/con... In the African jungle, conservationist Damian Aspinall, along with his daughter Tansy Aspinall, searches for Djalta and Bimms, two western lowland gorillas born at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent. In 2003, Djalta...
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