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1. Reinier de Jong's TUIN
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2. Minnesota Got Its Green Mojo Back
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3. Wal-Mart: The Next Steps Toward Sustainability
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4. Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow
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5. B&Q Becomes One Planet Living Business, and Stops Selling Patio Heaters in the Process
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6. Gomi-style Gehry Chair Knockoff
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7. The Year Ahead With Barton Seaver
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8. Sunscreens Promote Coral Bleaching by Stimulating Viruses
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9. Apple's Unfixable Gadgets: That's Not Green
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10. Got a Head For Lights? The 2CLight Solar Cap
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11. Dell unsheathes a shiny green blade
Reinier de Jong's TUIN
2008-01-24 15:50
Design & Architecture
Rotterdam designer Reinier de Jong notes: 
"Housing in big city centres seems to consist of small apartments. Highrise equals apartments. Or so it seems. However many cities economically really need well-to-do middle class dwellers. They flee to suburbia as soon as salaries go up and kids arrive." So he takes the standard suburban typology, the two storey house with a garden, and stacks them on top of each other, "so we will diminish the suburban sprawl that is swallowing up our precious land." ... 
Minnesota Got Its Green Mojo Back
2008-01-24 15:48
news
It's been an uphill slog, but it looks like Minnesota is going to catch up with Wisconsin and Illinois. "Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty recently announced initiatives to encourage solar, wind and other renewable energy projects at the local level and to reduce global warming emissions...He proposed four changes, including one to authorize local governments to issue $10 million to $20 million in revenue bonds to provide low-interest loans to individuals for "microenergy" projects. Those might include installing solar panels to produce hot water, geothermal equipment to heat and cool homes or businesses, or small wind machines to power homes, farms and schools." He... 
Wal-Mart: The Next Steps Toward Sustainability
2008-01-24 15:09
news
Image Credit- Jeff McIntyre-Strasburg at Sustainablog Two years ago inTreeHugger we wrote about Lee Scott's October Surprise, his speech laying out the dramatic plans he had to take Wal-Mart into the 21st Century. He said at the time: "What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all? We were skeptical and said " We will wait and see" To our surprise, Lee Scott is still at the helm of Wal-Mart, and he has been me... 
Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow
2008-01-24 15:05
Cars & Transportation
Except for the area roughly circumscribing Olympia and Tacoma in the US State of Washington - depicted as small orange blob in the US Pacific Northwest (top left of the graphic) - air quality in the USA looks pretty good this week. AIRNow, source of this graphic information, also offers free access to graphic air quality reports by region, state, or locality (see Olympia/Tacoma detailed example below). If I was looking for a healthier place to live, especially if I had asthma or other respiratory problems, this would be my starting information point. AIRNow is far more useful for that purpose than those top "greenest cities" stories that com... 
B&Q Becomes One Planet Living Business, and Stops Selling Patio...
2008-01-24 14:50
Business & Politics
B&Q, the UK hardware retailers who have been busy erecting a 2MW wind turbine at their distribution headquarters, and the Bioregional Development Group, the folks who have been busy creating localized paper recycling schemes, TreeStations for urban forestry waste and giant One Planet L... 
Gomi-style Gehry Chair Knockoff
2008-01-24 14:43
chairs
"At Gomi style, it is better to reuse and keep material out of the waste stream altogether" So Marque Cornblatt says as his Gomi-style makeover team knock off Frank Gehry with a cardboard chair design. (Gomi, as William Gibson coined it, "is a Japanese word meaning dust or garbage but is has become a popular slang word for anything that we throw away"). However their chair design is incredibly inefficient ... 
The Year Ahead With Barton Seaver
2008-01-24 14:30
Food & Health
This post is part of an ongoing series. To access all the profiles in this series, visit The Year Ahead. 
Who: Barton Seaver, executive chef and partner of Hook in Washington, D.C., a restaurant serving responsibly-sourced seafood and local products. In October 2007, the Blue Ocean Institute, a national conservation group, honored Seaver along with explorer Sylvia Earle and filmmaker Alastair Fothergill for their commitment to preserving the world's seas. He is also active with Che... 
Who: Barton Seaver, executive chef and partner of Hook in Washington, D.C., a restaurant serving responsibly-sourced seafood and local products. In October 2007, the Blue Ocean Institute, a national conservation group, honored Seaver along with explorer Sylvia Earle and filmmaker Alastair Fothergill for their commitment to preserving the world's seas. He is also active with Che... 
Sunscreens Promote Coral Bleaching by Stimulating Viruses
2008-01-24 14:30
Science & Technology
Image courtesy of jon hanson via flickr You may not realize this, but that sunscreen you typically slather your back with at the beach - though beneficial to you - does tremendous harm to coral reefs. According to ES&T's Robert Weinhold, 4 ingredients commonly found in sunscreens that tend to wash off into the water - a paraben preservative, cinnamate, benzophenone and a camphor derivative (the last 3 are UV filters) - cause bleaching by killing 
Apple's Unfixable Gadgets: That's Not Green
2008-01-24 14:09
electronics
Last week were were all gaga over Apple's new "greener" MacBook Air, but this week it is back to reality as we learn from the eco-geek that the sixth generation iPods and the current iPod Nano have been designed to be 100% unfixable. Brett Mosely of ByMyTronics, who fixes and resells broken iPods, says: The new generations of iPods and the iPhone are not designed to be opened. Because the Nano, iPhone and gene... 
Got a Head For Lights? The 2CLight Solar Cap
2008-01-24 13:37
clothing
Remember those silly faux pith safari helmets with the weeny solar panel driving an ineffective fan? Well, the 2CLight might've finally found a more functional way to bring photovoltaics to headwear. Spend the day in the great outdoors, working or recreating, protecting your noggin from the thermonuclear glare of dear old Sol, all the while charging the integrated nickel metal hydride battery, via a flexible solar panel on the caps brim. When the sun dips below the horizon you press a switch under the same brim and Sol's captured energy is still with you, beaming out via a couple of bright light emitting diode (LED) bulbs.... 
Dell unsheathes a shiny green blade
2008-01-24 11:00
Ted Samson - Dell
From a green-tech perspective, the most intriguing server I've ever known (from a distance) was the Gemini Green Series from Open Source Solutions (OSS). Highly efficient power supplies? Check. Efficient internal cooling? Check. Easily swappable components -- from motherboards to memory to power supplies -- to eliminate the need for ripping and replacing upgrades? Check. Alas, OSS is no more, but its legacy won't be forgotten -- not by me, anyway. The fact that it's gone the way of rainbow suspenders is no reason to dismiss the beauty of its product design either. In fact, I see glimmers of the... READ MORE 
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