Enjoy this commercial is produced by the Alliance for Climate Protection. It has a refreshing twist on the old carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas emission message… a highly visual one. I bet if people saw black balloons filled with greenhouse gas coming out of their appliances the world would have no problems with global warming. At least [...]
Enjoy this commercial is produced by the Alliance for Climate Protection. It has a refreshing twist on the old carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas emission message… a highly visual one. I bet if people saw black balloons filled with greenhouse gas coming out of their appliances the world would have no problems with global warming. At least folks might think twice before leaving the lights on when not in the room.
Tags: globalwarming, sustainability
Henry Gifford, in a recent research paper titled ‘A Better Way to Rate Green Buildings’, offers a well reasoned counter assessment of the USGBC’s interpretation of energy efficiency in LEED buildings, specifically those results announced at the 2007 GreenBuild relating LEED certification to energy performance. In effect, he argues that there is disparity between [...]
All Paper Recycling, Inc. has created a product called Shetka Stone that can be used for a variety of uses including countertops, fabricated panels, benches and tile. Shetkastone is made from100% pre and post consumer waste paper, including counterfeit money and phone books. The material is scratch, stain, and water resistant and [...]
”to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible“ -Definition ‘Optimize’
The National Aquatic Center in Beijing achieves sustainability through the optimization and integration of its structure, envelope, and building systems. In doing so it tells the story of how a little known problem of theoretical physics, Kelvin’s Conjecture, influenced the design of a prominent international [...]
Recently I had the benefit of sitting in on lecture about using plants to treat environmental problems. The lecture was given by Dr. Lee A. Newman, who has been conducting research in the area of phytoremediation for the past 16 years. Her work at the University of South Carolina focuses on using plants [...]
An exhibit on the effects of Climate Change opens tommorow at the Museum of Natural History in New York and runs through August 16, 2009.
“Climate Change will use realistic dioramas, hands-on activity stations, and dynamic animations to understand the climate’s response to the build-up of greenhouse gases and explore the repercussions for today’s world and [...]
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This is the most compelling video testimony I have seen, right up there with the famous chart/map of Napoleon’s march on Moscow.