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Posted by on Aug 31st, 2005 | 0 comments

Behold the Power of the Moon

Behold the Power of the Moon
Forget solar power. That is so played out. Today it is all about the Lunar power. SMD Hydrovision, out of England have this TidEL project they have been pimping since 2002. They won an Echo-Tech award at the World Expo this year for it too. Everyone knows, you can not stop the tides. You also – by extension – can not stop these cats from teaching the world a thing or two about sustainable electricity...
Posted by on Aug 30th, 2005 | 0 comments

Towards a new Architecture

In Portland Oregon a thirty-five block zone of the city – Lloyd Crossing – is going off the city grid in order to become self sustaining. This just might be the first urban zone to do so. It will have its own infrastructure to handle not just electricity but all resource systems. Thank you Portland Development Comission for sponsoring this by the way. This push to go sustainable has gone beyond the books...
Posted by on Aug 27th, 2005 | 0 comments

Putting the ‘Re’ back in to Refrigetator

Putting the ‘Re’ back in to Refrigetator
Hae-jin Kim has taken it upon himself to design a fridge which will make use of previously wasted energy. With the typical refrigerator heat is produced through the same process by which heat is removed from the interior. This excess heat is typically radiated off the back of the unit. ‘The Hot Fridge’ channels this surplus heat energy to a kind of hot-plate atop the fridge which can be used to keep...
Posted by on Aug 17th, 2005 | 0 comments

Wright goes green(er) (…again)

Frank Lloyd Wright always had an affinity for the environment in relation to his buildings. Ask any tour guide at Falling Water. Nearly a century after the fact, some people are being pro-active by reforming Wright’s work in to something a little more in harmony with the natural context. The Unity Temple is going geothermal to reduce it’s reliance on fossil fuel by around eighty percent. Next time just...
Posted by on Aug 5th, 2005 | 0 comments

Organic farming strikes back

A while back we were reading the Cornell study which indicates that organic farms produce the same yeilds as non-organic ones, yet in a more efficient manner. They of course consume less energy amungst other things. So already we can see economic reason for farmers to go organic; equal output with less overhead costs. The hard numbers Cornell comes up with are pretty impressive though. …but wait, theres...
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