Posts Tagged ‘ Treehugger ’

Cool Ways to Hang and Showcase Your Bike

Bikes are amazing. Quiet, lightweight and fast, they are the real future of sustainable transportation. But for those of us who have our bikes crowding our small apartments, stacked alongside a wall, waiting for people to trip over them, they can sometimes get in the way. Luckily, a number of designers have tackled this problem. [ READ MORE ]

Building Gets Smarter, and Much Faster

Via Treehugger: Lloyd Alter Design / Modular Design January 7, 2012 As an architect, I find this completely amazing. Before the Olympics we showed the Ark Hotel erected in six days, but it had nothing on this 170,000 square foot, 30 story hotel that was turnkeyed in 360 hours. It completely changes the way buildings [ READ MORE ]

Americans are Working to Feed Their Cars

Via TreeHugger: James Schwartz writes The Urban Country ” to show that using a bicycle for transportation is fast, fun and healthy & improves our cities, our people and the world.” He also occasionally writes about how using a car for transportation is slow, annoying, polluting and destroys our cities, our people and the world. [ READ MORE ]

California, Still Leading

In an age of spineless US Senators, de-investments in education, and other critical causes being put on the chopping block, it's satisfying to hear that some states are continuing to show leadership. [ READ MORE ]

Raising Awareness, block by block

A very cool and creative campaign by the Philadelphia Zoo to raise awareness. Nicely done. via Treehugger: With the precarious state of ecosystems throughout the world today, it is difficult to know for certain which threatened species will continue to be around for future generations–and which will have gone the way of the Dodo. But as sobering [ READ MORE ]

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