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DARPA’s Phoenix Spacecraft Cannibalizes And Recycles Derelict Satellites

Space agencies such as NASA are constantly faced the issue of old satellites decaying in orbit and falling to Earth. Those that don’t stay in orbit around the Earth also create potential collision threats to spacecraft. As a result, many methods are being devised to safely destroy old satellites without causing more space junk and debris. These ideas range from a service s... weiterlesen...

Sprialing Phoenix International Media Center Rises in Beijing

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Sprialing Phoenix International Media Center Rises in Beijing

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The Week in Pictures: Supersized Dust Storms, Detoxify Your Make-Up Kit, and More (Slideshow)

Photo: TreeHugger The massive dust storm that hit Phoenix has some people wondering if this is going to be the new norm for the arid southwestern U.S. Are more mega dust storms coming? We also have a comprehensive guide to finding safe, non-toxic cosmetics; a unicycle adventure across Mongolia; a sustainable garden starter kit, tips on waterless container gardens; and more in ... weiterlesen...

Solar-Powered Audubon Center Restores Nearby River and Immerses Visitors in the Phoenix Landscape

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Sustainable Copper-Clad ASU College of Nursing Weathers Beautifully In the Arizona Sun

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Americans Who Can’t Afford to Keep Lawns Green Turn to Spray Paint

This is one of the strangest and most deeply American tales I've read in a while: homeowners who can no longer afford (or be bothered with) the extensive, water-intensive lawn care that's required in many developments have simply started painting their dead front yards green. The whole thing moves beyond sad and into the Kafkaesque when you note that some of the developments in... weiterlesen...

World’s First Biodegradable Car: Kenneth Cobonpue’s Phoenix Roadster

You are looking at the world’s first bamboo and rattan roadster, a biodegradable car called the Phoenix. The Phoenix was created by product designers Kenneth Cobonpue and Albrecht Birkner and was built in just 10 days of bamboo, rattan, steel, and nylon. At 153 inches long, it is a small and elegant solution to a big and ugly problem: the waste created by old cars that out... weiterlesen...

Walter Cronkite School Of Journalism Is A Hard Hitting Energy Efficient News School

Read the rest of Walter Cronkite School Of Journalism Is A Hard Hitting Energy Efficient News Schoolhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Arizona State University, ASU, desert archit... weiterlesen...

Saab Unveils Sexy PhoeniX AWD Hybrid at 2011 Geneva Auto Show

The Geneva Auto Show kicks into full gear this week, and so far a number of hot new green cars have turned heads left and right. The latest vehicle to hit the scene is Saab‘s futuristic “PhoeniX” gas-electric hybrid concept, which boasts a series of technological advancements we’re bound to see in other Saab vehicles in the near future. Saab reports that ... weiterlesen...

Saab Unveils the Sexy 47 MPG PhoeniX AWD Hybrid

Photo: Saab Sexy Concept Car, But Disappointing in Other Areas Saab has introduced the PhoeniX AWD hybrid concept car in Geneva, saying that its architecture is the same as the one the next Saab 9-3 model will use. The all-wheel-drive hybrid features what Saab calls "aeromotional" design (I hope they don't use that word with a straight face -- I'm so tired of made up words crea... weiterlesen...

Recovering Addicts Plant a Forest of Regeneration

Image credit: Phoenix Futures From kicking our oil dependence to building an ocean recovery alliance, it's common to borrow metaphors from the world of addiction when it comes to discussing the environmental challenges we face, and how to fix them. But sometimes the connection is literal. In fact, one group is planting an entire forest to cele...Read the full story on TreeHugge... weiterlesen...

Arizona Life Science Building Has A Really, Really Big Shading Roof

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Process » Emeco’s 111 Navy Chair

by Michael C. TaylorThe tale of the Emeco's 111 Navy chair is that of a phoenix rising. In 1944, the Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company began producing the original 1006 Navy chair. But despite supplying these chairs—the first to be made from 80 percent recycled aluminum—for use in virtually every U.S. Navy application that required sitting, the company was on... weiterlesen...

Oldest Pool in Bay Area Takes Plunge to be Greenest in Country

The oldest and largest existing public pool in the Bay Area shuttered its doors ten years ago due to structural concerns but has re-emerged like a phoenix from the ashes this weekend as the greenest pool in the country! The Richmond Plunge has long been a stable icon of a city with an ever-changing identity. Now the pool represents not just renewal but a leap forward in sustaina... weiterlesen...

What We Saw » The View From Phoenix

by Jaime GrossEarlier this week, I spent two days in Phoenix, reporting a story for Dwell's upcoming December/January issue. My second afternoon, local architects Cy Keener and Jay Atherton offered to take me on a whirlwind tour of what's cool in their city. As a disclaimer Cy explained, as we trundled along in his white pickup, that in Phoenix, "'walking distance' is actual... weiterlesen...

Life Cycle Analysis Shows The True Environmental Cost of Swimming Pools

Palm Springs, California Not surprisingly, hot places like Phoenix or Palm Springs have a lot of backyard pools. Warren wrote recently about their environmental cost in terms of energy and water, but a new life cycle analysis of all of the inputs and outputs, from electricity to water to pool chemicals, shows the true scale of the impact. And of course, the impact is worse in ... weiterlesen...