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- Sign The Petition For The White House Organic Farm Project!
Japan's Imperial Household is the institution that takes care of the Emperor and his responsibilities as head of state; they also run seven organic farms around Japan. Young Japanese organic farmers are blogging about the Imperial farms, and participating in organic conferences together with his royal highness' very down-to-earth, mud-under-your-fingernails farmers. In a similar vein, it makes sen...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing World
Artists from around the world have gone to Greenland to respond to climate change and now another group is going to eight different UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe to record their responses. Why artists? Answers one: "...Art changes the world by changing the way you see." Another said he wanted to "open people's minds" and another "when you hear a poem you can feel it." For this art e...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - Why Can't We Build an Affordable House?
Witold Rybczynski asks in the Wilson Quarterly: "Why Can't We Build an Affordable House?" He notes that "ne of the reasons we are in this mess is that people bought houses they couldn't really afford" and that when the market returns, people will want smaller houses, closer to the designs of Levittown with their thousand square feet instead of the average of 2,469 SF before the crash. ...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - The Old Urbanism: It's A Wonderful Block
We often write in TreeHugger about the importance of cities and of neighborhoods, about new urbanist designs that work like cities used to; Mark Oppenheimer writes in the New York Times' real estate magazine a wonderful article entitled "It's a wonderful block"- His own West Rock Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut....
Source: - added 12 hours ago - 1973: Toyota Station Wagon Turns into RV
With more and more Americans having to sleep in their cars, it is too bad that Toyota never put this into production. ...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - 321 Gigawatts of Wind Power Awaits Exploitation Off Michigan's Shores
Phil HollmannNormally when grand statements are made about a nation's offshore wind power potential the mind naturally conjures up briny images. In the US however, thanks to the Great Lakes though, another area of potential offshore wind development exists sans saltwater. A new report from Michigan State University's Land Policy Institute says that, in Michigan alone, offshore wind power devel...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - Samsung Sending Out Two Energy-Sipping PCs
Photo: Samsung Press ImageAnd it's no exaggeration when we say 'sipping.' The MV100 Tower and the MZ100 Slim Tower both use just 60 W while operating in power-save mode, and just 1 W when in stand-by mode ' that's less than many energy-sparing LCD monitors. ...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - MMA Architects Wins Big Prize For House Made of Sandbags
We wrote earlier about Luyanda Mpahlwa and his Sandbag Houses by MMA Architects; it was one of the entries in a competition teaming South African architects with international designers to pioneer new affordable housing systems. MMA went it alone, and built an affordable structure that "requires no tools or advanced construction knowledge and can be built for slightly more than $6,000." Now they ...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - A Picture is Worth: Michaelangelo's David After a Stay in America
::Beton + Garten via ::Next Nature...
Source: - added 12 hours ago - Solar Widget by RoofRay Offers Solar Savings Estimates
RoofRay has put out an embeddable widget that lets users view rooftops in their area via satellite imagery, draw out a solar array on a certain rooftop, and get an estimate for installation of that array. Basically, it's their website in an embeddable format. It's a pretty cool way to make getting an estimate quick and easy. But it can also go into depth about what the drawn array will be abl...
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