Collaboration / Emerging Technologies / Food & Farming / Purchasing Green / Sustainable Design
Help Promote the New Worldchanging Book
WC-Office, 2 Mar 11 It's been seven years in the making, but the new Worldchanging book is finally here. Now we need your help this week getting this young book on its feet. Not only do initial sales often determine how other booksellers treat...
Newspaper Wood: From Tree to Paper to Wood
Alison Killing, 4 Nov 10 Alison Killing reports on an exciting new closed loop paper-to-wood product. Kranthout ("newspaper wood" in Dutch) is a new product that has been developed by Mieke Meijer for design company vij5 (here is a [PDF] of their design). As the...
Game for Change: Fate of the World
Yale Environment 360, 2 Nov 10 New Computer Game Simulates Challenges of Global Warming A British company has developed a new computer game that allows players to save the planet from the effects of global warming — at least in a simulated setting. “Fate of the...
Solar Round-Up: World's Largest Solar Plants and Thinnest Cells
WorldChanging Team, 26 Oct 10 South Africa Unveils Plans for 'World's Biggest' Solar Power Plant: Giant Mirrors and Solar Panels in Northern Cape Would Reduce Carbon Emissions and Generate One-Tenth of the Country's Energy Needs Jonathan de Vries, the project manager, said today: "I'd hate...
Get Zero: Metropolis's Next Generation Design Competition
Amanda Reed, 25 Oct 10 “How can forward thinking-design transform backwards-looking buildings?” That’s the question Metropolis’s Next Generation Design Competition is asking applicants to address with a design that gives a typical 1960s building a makeover, transforming it into a high performance building with zero...
