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Post tags: city cottage, eco design, Finland, green design, Helsinki, light footprint, low carbon footprint, minimalist, Palva family, Seaside, Solar Power, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, urban life, Verstas Arc... weiterlesen...
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I've traveled through Paris via bicycle, public transportation and even the occasional car. So when I saw Xiaoji Chen's original maps of the city, I didn't see them as distorted- they made perfect sense. Chen's maps redraw Paris based not on physical distance between points, but on the travel time between them for each mode of transport. In vi... weiterlesen...
Electric vehicle records are being broken all the time these days, which is great news for the advancement of EV technology. But the “Schluckspecht” EV (“heavy drinker” in German) from the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg just broke a pretty significant one: the world record for total distance traveled on a single charge. As we just learned tes... weiterlesen...
The Netherlands is testing a new car use tax system that will tax drivers based upon the environmental impact of their driving rather than just taxing the vehicle itself. The trials utilize a little box outfitted with GPS, wireless internet, and a complex rating system that tracks a car’s environmental impact, its distance driven, its route, and what time it is driven as ... weiterlesen...
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Thanks to humans, as many as one-third of shark species are at risk of extinction and many more species are reaching dangerously low populations. With humans killing upwards of 73 million sharks every year, these important animals need all the help they can get in keeping humans away. Here are four smart tech... weiterlesen...
Utah State University researchers have made a breakthrough in the quest to make in-road electric vehicle chargers practical for the real world, managing to wirelessly transmit 5 kilowatts of electricity across a 10-inch gap with 90% efficiency. That’s huge for a technology that has struggled to gain traction because of inefficiencies and difficulties bridging enough of a g... weiterlesen...
This Saturday JetBlue is offering $4 flights between the Burbank and Long Beach airports in an effort to help residents avoid the inevitable Carmegedon that will occur with the closing of a 10-mile stretch of the city’s infamously slow 405 freeway. We thought it was a joke when we first saw mention of the promotion, but the joke’s on the environment because they have alread... weiterlesen...
The eGenius, an electric glider devised by a team from the University of Stuttgart, has set a new record for electric aviation by maintaining an average speed of 100mph over two hours. The result of the exercise saw the craft push the boundaries of what an electric aircraft has been able to do in terms of speed and endurance.
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Photo: The Home Expedition / Running The Silk Road.
Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the full length of the ancient Silk Road trading route to raise money for and awareness about water shortages in the arid Central...... weiterlesen...
NASA is expanding their DISCOVER-AQ research program which measures pollution levels on Earth from space to help them fully understand how to precisely measure gaps in air pollution data. NASA has been measuring these levels from space aboard their Aqua and Aura satellites but have found that distinguishing pollution high in the atmosphere from ground level pollution has been di... weiterlesen...
A new train designed by the HASSEL could one day be zipping people around Australia while reducing the country’s carbon output. The A-HSV train is a double decker machine that promises to have just 4 kg of CO2 emissions per 100 passengers per kilometer — compared to 14 kg for a car, or 17 for a plane carrying the same number of people the same distance. The train was... weiterlesen...
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About two years ago, I was at a conference and one of the presenters brought up her idea that a significant cause of nearsightedness is the fact that so many of us spend most of the time indoors staring at computer screens, or in confined enough urban spaces that we don't keep our eyes practiced at looking far into the distance. Turns out, she w... weiterlesen...
Pescomaggiore village, which was destroyed by the earthquake that hit the mountain region of L’Aquila in central Italy on Apr. 6, 2009, is now being rebuilt by its 40-odd inhabitants with straw and wood. Called EVA (an acronym for “Do it Yourself” in Italian) eco-village features seven houses built on a section of land a short distance from the original village. Th... weiterlesen...
Traditional Landscapes With a Twist: Photographer Yao Lu Makes Mountains out of China’s Rubble Heaps
Yao Lu's "The Beauty of Kunming," 2010. Image: Istanbul Modern.
In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where cascades of water rush down -- between folds of green cloth, draped on mountains of rubble....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Size matters. When it comes to understanding the health of an animal, that is. Researchers have come up with a smart new way to measure the size of sharks while maintaining a safe distance from the predators. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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