Finalists Present Their Projects in Competition to Redesign Minneapolis’ Riverfront
February 4, 2011 No Comment
The Turenscape team’s proposal for a renewed Minneapolis riverfront. Minneapolis, already named the country’s most bike-friendly city , is about to get quite a makeover. In September, the city’s Park and Recreation Board announced a design competition to create a new image of the Upper Mississippi Riverfront. In November, four finalists out of a pool of 55 were announced, each presenting a design for the 220 acres of parkland, neighborhoods and business districts on both sides of a 5.4 mile stretch of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: building.co.uk TreeHugger loves flatpack construction: it’s easy to ship, easy to assemble and generally pretty efficient. Ikea has raised it to an artform in their furniture . But what about in schools? Is that a step too far? The UK has a new government which is on a budget-cutting rampage. Its latest idea is prefab schools built to standard design from a few pre-approved plans, which supposedly could be assembled in 13 weeks. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Charleston Gazette At the heart of philosophical debate of how we can best mobilize industry to deal with climate change lies one single dirty fuel source: coal. It provides the energy that powers the most massive economies on the planet, and contributes more than any other industrial source to the climate’s warming. On a micro level, it also provides a lot of folks with their livelihoods. Abolishing the stuff presents a conundrum indeed. So it’s nice to see even small progress being made that addresses both issues; and not just symbolicall… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Lundberg.com Lundberg Family Farms has installed 1,690 solar panels on top of its new 35,000-plus square-foot warehouse on its northern California farm. The installation is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is more than enough to power the building itself. Together with the 584,000 kWh from already-existing solar panels, it will generate 20 percent of the electricity the company uses. (It purchases renewable energy credits to offset the remaining 80 percent.) … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: International Center for Tropical Agriculture / Creative Commons Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth ; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the use of grain to produce fuel for cars. P… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I’d like to send a very big and public thank you to my gallerist, James Danziger of Danziger Projects, for recently selling several of my images to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. James has been one of my biggest supports from the very beginning. His faith in my work is quite humbling. Actually, if you happen to be in Tokyo next week you can see my work in an exhibit called “Radiant Moments: Snapshots Cast Their Spell. ” I’m so proud to have my images hanging with photographers like Walker Evans and Paul Fusco. Radiant Moments: Snapshots Cast Their Spell Dates: from Dec.11, 2010 through Feb.6, 2011 Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography P.S. James also has a great blog, The Year in Pictures . I’ve learned so much about the art of photography reading his blog for the past two years.
Continue reading …International Year of Forests Begins – Deforestation Slows But Extent of What’s Lost Becomes Clear
February 3, 2011 No Comment
photo: Jason / Creative Commons So according to the UN it’s the International Year of Forests (last year it was biodiversity, for those with short memories), which means that in coincidence with the official start of that year there are a number of reports released highlighting the state of the world’s forests. There’s good news and bad news. First the good news:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …It’s a Record-Breaking Winter Alright … For Lowest Ice Extent in the Arctic
February 3, 2011 No Comment
Image: Current Green Yes, yes, it’s snowy as hell in the US. It’s pretty damn cold, too. And I’m not even seeing the worst of it here on the East Coast. The Midwest is getting the brunt of it. Though there’s been thankfully little ‘See! See! Snow-means-no-climate-change” yapping in the media thus far (that I’ve been subjected to at least), we still should turn our attention to the fact that there are indeed records being broken. Yes, at the moment that blizzards sweep our nation, it turns out a record of another kind has been broken: Thi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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For thirteen years, Mark Bittman wrote the Minimalist food column for the Dining section of the New York Times; last week he wrote that he was leaving, because he saw that “the continuing attack on good, sound eating and traditional farming in the United States is a political issue.” It’s not new territory for him; his book of two years ago, Food Matters, covered it. (see Jeff’s review here ) This week he started with a shot across the bows in the Opinion Section with a
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