Monthly Archive for September, 2010
Forget the long boat ride and freezing temperatures -- thanks to Google Street View, now you can take a stroll on the rocky coast of Antarctica from the comfort of your own home. Since the feature was first made available online in 2007, the Web giant has gone on to provide on-the-ground images of places around the world, and today's launching of Street View in South America an... weiterlesen...
Join Inhabitat at West Coast Green TODAY!
We’re thrilled to announce that one of our favorite green design events of the year kicks off today in San Francisco – West Coast Green! Each year this monumental green building trade show brings a fresh crop of cool eco products, enthralling speakers, and hands-on workshops to the Fort Mason Center, and team Inhabitat is on ... weiterlesen...
Image: Nudge
Rather Than What Would be Gained
The book "Nudge" by Richard H. Thaler and Cas R. Sunstein contains many ideas on how to present choices to people in such a way that they are more likely to make choices that are good for them. The idea is that however choices are presented, even if randomly, people are being nudged in a certain direction for various reasons, so we ... weiterlesen...
AP Photo via Climate Progress
A couple days ago, I ran a video post explaining how climate change was killing walruses: the ice floes that the animals are used to resting on during hunting expeditions and while rearing their young are melting as ocean temps warm. Walrus calves that can't make the trip back to shore often end up drowning. A few days before that, Matt reported that weiterlesen...
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
No one likes to see a family pulled apart, but in this case the result is two new species: Scientists studying the genome of Paradoxurus hermaphroditus have decided that, in fact, the Asian palm civet is three distinct species....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Say what you will about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but despite being the onetime public face of the Hummer, he's consistently come out on the side of good green policy for his state. And he may have just offered up his most vehement defense of any green law out there, criticizing the Texas oil company-led effort to pass Proposition 23, which would overturn Calif... weiterlesen...
The world’s first 7-passenger electric luxury minivan is coming, and it’s brought to you by start-up AC Propulsion and Taiwan automaker Yulon. For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we check out the Luxgen MPV and chat with AC Propulsion’s Tom Gage. AC Propulsion makes electric car drive trains and motors and originally supplie... weiterlesen...
Image: Twitter screen grab
Looks Pretty Sweet!
Lance Armstrong, uber-cyclist, crime fighter, and electric car early-adopter, has just tweeted that his new Nissan LEAF electric car has arrived. He sent a pic (see below for a bigger version), and it looks good. A nice change from the blue paint that almost all LEAFs have had so far....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nnimmo Bassey (center) leading the Friends of the Earth contingent arriving for the Global Day of Climate Action, December 12th, 2009 in Copenhagen. Photos: Matthew McDermott.
"For revealing the full ecological and human horrors of oil production and for his inspired work to strengthen the environmental movement in Nigeria and globally," Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of weiterlesen...
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Join Inhabitat for the Mired in the Bayou opening reception in NYC!
We’ve all seen images of the Gulf Oil Spill – filmy waters, desolate shorelines and blackened, lifeless animals — but what about the lives and livelihoods that have been destroyed? On October 15th at the 99% Gallery, Inhabitat will present Mired in the Bayo... weiterlesen...
by Jaime Gross"John Pawson Plain Space," a retrospective of British architect John Pawson's work, is on view at London's Design Museum until January 2011. Coinciding with the exhibition, Phaidon Press has published "John Pawson: Plain Space," the first monograph of his work from the past decade. The book spotlights thirty of Pawson's wide-ranging projects, fro... weiterlesen...