image credit Matharoo Architects Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan of Architizer calls Matharoo Associates House with Balls “a veritable children’s treasury of the weirdest, coolest architectural photography we’ve seen in a while (cattle, camels, fish, lights facing concrete walls, is that someone up there on the roof? Is that a cow up there?).” I won’t get started about the who… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Todd Ryburn / Creative Commons According to current estimates, only 3,200 tigers remain in the entire world . These few individuals are scattered across 13 countries in Asia, mostly sheltered in protected habitats and reserves. These reserves will have to increase, conservationists say, if tiger range countries will meet their goal of doubling the species’ population by 2022. If the size of th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Awamaki Lab Puts Impoverished Weavers From Peru to Work on New Upscale Fashion Collection (Interview)
January 26, 2011 No Comment
Photo: Kate Reeder for Awamaki Lab Peruvian non-profit Awamaki Lab has released an inaugural collection head up by designer Nieli Vallin, a student from Paris’s Chambre Syndical de la Couture . Vallin participated in a four-month residency program that brings designers to the Patacancha Valley of Ollantaytambo, Peru where they work with impoverished Quencha women weavers and develop contemporary clothing for a western market using fair trade textiles. The made-to-order Awamaki Lab collection launched in New York at Guided, the design st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: TPM The Environmental Protection Agency is one of our nation’s most important organizations — it’s responsible for protecting our water and air from pollution. The EPA is the reason our rivers and lakes aren’t contaminated, and our cities aren’t choked with smog. The agency does a job no company could effectively do — protect the natural commons — due to the
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All images credit BIG Bjarke Ingels is the precocious young starchitect beloved of Fast Company (see their profile here ) and who has now won an international competition to design a new waste-to-energy plant, or glorified high-tech incinerator. Abitare writes that they were only asked to design the facade, but as is his wont, Ingels gets crazy, turning it into a giant smoking … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Hawaii Proposes Legislation to Bring Devastating Fish Farms Under Control
January 26, 2011 No Comment
Image: thehui.wordpress.com The State Legislature in Hawaii is trying to fight the devastation that factory fish farming is bringing to local ecosystems. Two bills were introduced on Monday, one to stop the reckless expansion of the farms, and another that would require fish farming companies to conduct a full analysis of the environmental, socio-economic and cultural impact of their businesses…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When I wrote Coffee Table Doubles As Heliostat, Lighting Room , I suggested that “Perhaps it could use a little advanced technology to track the sun automatically.” Susan Labarre of Fast Company was stronger in her language: File that under well-intentioned-but-yeah-*$&%ing-right…..So Pure Sun might find a cus… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: derekskey / Creative Commons Right about now, winter is getting a little old — especially for residents of the Northeast U.S. and Western Europe who’ve been pounded with snow, slammed by wind, and chilled with freezing temperatures for more than two months. It’s time to get away, no? And when you choose a volunteering vacation — one that lets you track whales, save sharks, protect endangered rhinos, maintain hiking trails, survey reefs, or care for wallabies — your coworkers won’t even be able to giv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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