Is Cross-Laminated Timber the New Concrete?
One designer thinks that it can take the place of concrete in buildings, inside and out.
Curvaceous bicycle bridge brings new life to Copenhagens harbor
Copenhagen has once again cemented its title as the best bicycle city in the world with the completion of the Lille Langebro cycle and pedestrian bridge.
How Green Is St Greta’s Ark? Er, Not Very
Last Wednesday, in a blaze of unremittingly fawning publicity and uncritical adulation of which even Moses descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets bearing the Ten Commandments would have been envious, the good ship Mazilia – or, as I prefer…
Want to go plastic-free? Start with one thing.
Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.
Market Forces and Coal
Posted on 19 August 2019 by Riduna Following defeat of the Australian Labor Party in the Federal election a leading Member has suggested that the Party should not rely on the use of Market Forces as the basis for curbing emissions. This would be a…
Passive solar school in Indonesia celebrates the natural landscape
In the Indonesian city of Tangerang, Jakarta-based design studio RAW Architecture has completed the School of Alfa Omega, a new school that emphasizes a connection with the outdoors.
Forgotten urban spaces get new lives as beautiful gathering areas on Skid Row
Brooks + Scarpa has revitalized a couple of unloved service courtyards and a debris-filled alley into beautiful outdoor gathering spaces.
Simulation of the future in the Grimsel rock laboratory
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena) Geologists @UniJena and partners are researching at the Grimsel rock laboratory materials and systems that are foreseen as a geotechnical barrier in a possible repository. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) is financing the ‘KOLLORADO-e3’ project with around one million euros over the next three years.
Certified Passive House in New York generates all of its own energy
In New York’s Hudson Valley, a beautiful new beacon for sustainable, net-zero design has taken root.
The dangerous delusion of optimal global warming | International Politics and Society – IPS Journal
The United Kingdom is now legally committed to reduce net greenhouse-gas emissions to zero by 2050. Opponents in Parliament argued for more cost-benefit analysis before making such a commitment; and Nobel laureate economist William Nordhaus argues that such analysis shows…
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