Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
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- Nature-inspired home uses passive design to stay cool in Taiwan Fri, 13 Mar 20, 1:30amJust outside Kaohsiung’s city center, Taiwanese architecture firm Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute has completed Comfort in Context, a contemporary new home nestled in a lush hillside...
- Canadas first net-zero carbon, mass-timber college building to rise in Toronto Wed, 4 Mar 20, 2:30amThe Centennial College in Toronto will soon make history with the addition of Canada’s first net-zero carbon, mass timber college building. Designed in collaboration with construction services company EllisDon as well as...
- Swedens tallest timber building could save 550 tons of CO2 Sat, 29 Feb 20, 3:30amScandinavian-based architecture firm C.F. Møller Architects has raised the bar for sustainable architecture with the recent completion of the Kajstaden Tower, Sweden’s tallest timber building. Located in Västerås, about...
- Hollywood’s Carbon Footprint Thu, 27 Feb 20, 1:00amGuest “Hooray for Hollywood” by David Middleton A couple of days ago, CTM forwarded a reader suggestion to me. “Cassandra” wanted to know what the carbon footprint of the movie industry was, from movie...
- Recycled shipping container cafe utilizes passive cooling in India Tue, 25 Feb 20, 6:30amSoutheast of New Delhi, in Greater Noida City, Rahul Jain Design Lab (RJDL) has transformed recycled shipping containers into a dynamic new cafe and gathering space for ITS Dental College...
- Check out Glasir, the tree-shaped urban farming solution Fri, 21 Feb 20, 5:30amIn a bid to revolutionize agriculture, New York City and Bergen-based innovation studio Framlab has proposed Glasir, a community-based system for urban farming that combines the flexibility of modularity with aeroponics...
- Tackling sustainability in sporting events Thu, 20 Feb 20, 5:30amAt the recent Super Bowl, the NFL focused on sustainability more than in past years with its Ocean to Everglades (O2E) initiative throughout South Florida...
- myfoods smart greenhouses can grow nearly 900 pounds of produce a year Wed, 5 Feb 20, 3:30amAt CES 2020, French startup myfood presented a smart greenhouse that it says can grow up to 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of organic fruits and vegetables a year with only a few hours of work a week...
- Henning Larsen unveils plans for Copenhagens first all-timber community Fri, 24 Jan 20, 3:30amA sustainable, nature-filled neighborhood unlike any other in Denmark could soon take root just beyond Copenhagen’s city center. Scandinavian architecture firm Henning Larsen has collaborated with biologists and environmental...
- Stunning House on the Rocks uses geothermal power Fri, 24 Jan 20, 6:30amOn Finland’s windswept Turku archipelago, Helsinki-based design practice and log house kit purveyor Pluspuu has completed yet another ecological wood house — fittingly named the House on the Rocks...
- The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks? Sun, 19 Jan 20, 9:00amPopular products generate significant ‘post-catch’ emissions, underscoring the need to measure what happens after fish are caught University of California – Santa Cruz Processing Alaskan pollock into fish...
- Rolls-Royce unveils prototype for world's fastest electric plane Thu, 16 Jan 20, 5:30amInnovation is the name of the game for luxury industry leaders like Rolls-Royce, so it’s no surprise they have a variety of sustainable travel projects in the works...
- Quorn introduces carbon footprint labeling Wed, 15 Jan 20, 2:30amIn a trailblazing move, Quorn, the meatless food manufacturer headquartered in the U.K., is now leveraging carbon labeling on more than half its product line. Carbon labeling delineates where greenhouse gas emissions are...
- High carbon footprint families identified by sweets and restaurant food, not higher meat consumption Mon, 23 Dec 19, 1:00amUniversity of Sheffield Families with high carbon footprints consume two to three times more sweets and alcohol than those with low footprints Study by experts in Sheffield and Kyoto, Japan, found meat consumption explained...
- Timber Woody office in France embraces Paris' largest park Sat, 30 Nov 19, 3:30amIn a bid to reduce the carbon footprint of construction, French architecture firm Atelier du Pont has created an office for Santé publique France, the French public healthcare agency...