Cities & Planning

The Green Revolution helped feed a surging global population, but at the cost of impoverishing crop diversity. Now, with climate change increasingly threatening food supplies, the need for greater agricultural resilience means restoring endangered crop and food varieties.

Plans for a brand new 4.5-kilometer-long aerial tramway connecting various suburbs in the southeast to the Paris metro, are pressing ahead, with construction expected to begin this year.

The Barcelona superblock has been put forward as an innovative urban strategy to transform cities to be more liveable and sustainable. Whether superblocks could potentially be implemented in other cities as well and how disruptive potential sites are to traffic is discussed here.

Here's an interesting concept for a modular structure, though I'm not sure where it fits within the marketplace of easy-to-assemble buildings: Camping? Disaster relief? Temporary housing? Living quarters for remote workers? In any case, the $7,500 Quick Cabin is a 10x10 structure composed largely of modular rotomolded panels, each

Architect and design researcher Dr. Ahmed Kamal Ali is the founder/director of the Resource-Based Design Research Lab at Texas A&M University. And he struggles with something involving his work: ""I love waste because I make use of it," he told Texas A&M Today, "but I also hate it at the

The City of Shoreline has been working diligently to prepare for the arrival of Link light rail in the city, as Sound Transit works toward opening two local stations in 2024. Along with substantial…

Quick Cabin The Quick Cabin is modular, lightweight, rugged, insulated, and easy to set up. It comes as a complete kit and the only tool required for set up is a screwdriver. The Quick Cabin components are UV-treated, making for a long-lasting shelter. The shape of the Quick Cabin’s walls creates a surprising amount of usable space without a large footprint. Each modular component is very lightweight, none exceeding 30 lbs, making it easy for anyone to be able to set it up. Note: if you would like to purchase a platform for your Quick Cabin, be sure to add a UDECX Platform to your order! Interested In Financing? Please turn off any adblock extensions

A private report shows the loopholes Amazon uses to lessen its climate impact.

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

Even for a so-called “climate president,” Biden’s reliance on fossil fuel reserves during the Ukraine crisis is not surprising.

Let's imagine Australia was able to use politics to work on the single largest threat facing us: climate change.

Learn more about a new technology that drills with microwaves and can go down 12 miles to where the real heat is.

From Seattle's first woman mayor to skyjacker D.B. Cooper, our special this year is a survey of quirky characters from our past.

Gardeners in Alaska know that it’s hard to grow big, juicy tomatoes here. But as the climate rapidly warms in the far north , that could c...

Fred Closter doesn't like Florida Power & Light.

The proposed solution — a 31-mile-long pipeline draining Lake Michigan — is dividing residents in Joliet, Illinois.

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Invented by the region's Moorish rulers 1,200 years ago, Valencia's irrigation system is now a model for sustainable farming.

Egypt’s rise was a combination of violence and tactful diplomacy

The gipsy zeppelin baseship of Lieven Standaert generates its own energy, never has to land, and is equipped with a sun terrace where you can have a coffee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Airships have received a lot of attention in recent years, for both the transport of passengers and goods. They are more economical and silent than airplanes, and they are still considerably faster than most means of transportation over land or water. That said, zeppelins are faced with some problems. To stay afloat they use helium, a non-renewable gas becoming scarce. Moreover, because of their round shape and insignificant weight they are hard to manage when they are on the ground. They also need a significant amount of parking space, making...

Brains behind Melbourne's laneway culture Gilbert Rochecouste has proposed a new creek that will meander through the city and become its "green spine".

We'll need a mayor to lead a movement saying, "If you need a living-wage job, there is one to be had here, because, in all honesty, there is lots to be done around this city."

Posted on Monday 14 Feb 2022. 1,000 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.