Lynnwood’s City Center: Transforming Strip Malls into a Dense Urban Neighborhood
Like many suburban American cities that saw major growth in the second half of the 20th century, Lynnwood lacks a defined central commercial area. Businesses are grouped instead as strip malls alon…
Inuit Snow Goggles Carved From Bone, Ivory, Wood or Antler - Core77
I once visited White Sands National Park in New Mexico, and even with sunglasses on, it was positively blinding. At least the sun goes down in New Mexico. Imagine being in the similarly all-white landscape of the Arctic during that time of the year where the sun sticks around 24-7.
BY DANIEL SJOHOLM Every day, scores of American teens celebrate their 16th birthdays, and, like clockwork, head off to the DMV in hopes of passing their driver’s test and getting their driver’s license. It’s a tradition as American as baseball and apple pie. After all, owning a car is all but necessary for life in America — it’s nearly impossible for many of us to even imagine how we would go about our day-to-day lives without access to one. But their ubiquity obscures the damage cars do to our
Recycled Building Materials Construct a Multi-Purpose Zero Waste Center in Japan
Back in 2003, Kamikatsu, a town in Tokushima Prefecture, became Japan's first municipality to go zero waste, establishing a whopping 45 categories for recycling. Today, the village reuses about 80 percent of the garbage it generates, and the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center is at the forefront of the com
Move to solar energy creating crop, economic opportunities
Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a comeback, thanks to solar energy.
Around the 17th century, the Dutch started reinforcing their dykes and harbours with sturdy mats the size of football pitches – hand-woven from thousands of twigs grown on nearby coppice plantations. These “fascine mattresses” were weighted with rocks and sunk into canals, estuaries, and rivers. This article contains many images and would be a 12.1 MB download from this website. Therefore, I kindly invite you to read the article on our solar powered website, where it has been compressed to 1.90 MB.
The construction of the city without roads and cars began - FrontNet Blog
It was reported that Saudi Arabia wanted to build a science fiction movie in a northwestern part of the country. The city has been named Neom and the plan is not to have roads and cars and in general to operate energy but also in every aspect in a completely environmentally friendly way. The projectRead More
Scaled back Missing Link plans could put the trail on budget and sidestep lawsuits
The Missing Link appellants have won! But not really. The Seattle Department of Transportation announced today that they are prepared to submit a significantly scaled-back version of their plans to…
People in California are turning to Tatooine-style moisture farming | Boing Boing
From ABC News: The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water out of the air, and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices.The air-to-water systems work lik…
George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels. Above: George Cove stands next to his third solar array. Source: "Generating electricity by the sun's rays", Popular Electricity, Volume 2, nr. 12, April 1910, pp.793. More efficient, less sustainable Ever since Bell Labs presented the first practical solar PV panel in the 1950s, technological development has focused on reducing costs and increasing the efficiency of solar cells. According to these standards, researchers have made a lot of progress. The efficiency of solar panels increased from less than 5% in...
