Sustainable architecture – Page 2

Glowing fish sculptures from recycled bottles

November 19, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Gigantic Glowing Fish Sculptures Made From Recycled Bottles Rise From Rio Beach | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from the […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Two giant fish sculptures are jumping out of a beach in Rio de Janiero, and they’re made entirely from recycled plastic bottles! The scales of the epic sculptures were made by lining up hundreds of empty clear plastic bottles, giving t…

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Verti-Cult: Miniwiz Unveils Glowing Green Wall Made From Recycled Bottles (inhabitat.com)
Barbara Franc Transforms Recycled Objects Into Amazing Animal Sculptures (inhabitat.com)
Inhabitat’s Week in Green: algae-powered building, 3D-printing vending machine and the Toyota i-Road concept (engadget.com)
40,000 Recycled Plastic Bottles Insulate the Gorgeous Zero Energy tvzeb Studio in Italy (inhabitat.com)
Enormous Fish Sculptures Pop Up On Brazilian Beach (devambardekar.wordpress.com)

Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home

October 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home
Sami Grover Design / Green Architecture October 19, 2012, treehugger.com

Next time you hear someone complaining about today’s youth, or moaning about a culture of entitlement, tell them the story of Austin Hay.

We already posted one video of Austin Hay’s project to build a tiny house on wheels that he could t…

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Off-Grid Stamp House is a Cyclone-Proof Home in North Queensland, Australia (inhabitat.com)
Sustaining Urban Ecosystems with Modular Brick Habitats (treehugger.com)
The Best Green Architecture on Earth (solarfeeds.com)
Small is beautiful – are studios losing their bedsit stigma? (zoopla.co.uk)

Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK

October 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK
Mark Boyer, inhabitat.com

This month, Paul Testa Architecture obtained planning approval to build an earth-sheltered home in the United Kingdom. The Burrows is a highly sustainable single-family home that will be built into a hillside in South Yorkshire. Because…

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Earth Sheltered House (modernsweethome.wordpress.com)
Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone imports My Maps (reviews.cnet.com)
Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video) (treehugger.com)
Bercy Chen Studio’s Earth-Bermed Edgeland House Transforms a Former Brownfield Site in Texas (inhabitat.com)

Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order

September 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Bellomo Architects’ Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Here at Inhabitat we love prefab house designs, and we like it even better when they actually get built! That’s why we are very excited to report that Bellomo Architects’ modular House Arc, which was just a prototype before, is now…

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TEDTalks: William McDonough – Cradle to Cradle Design (stronghealthycommunity.wordpress.com)
Q&A with Desso’s director of sustainability (greenbiz.com)
Cradle to Cradle Makes it Right (sprayfoamdirect.com)
Ford Hybrids Go To The Emmys (motortrend.com)
Prefab modular story additions: an overview of leading suppliers (qualitysmith.com)

Swedish Students Photographed With All Their Possessions Show How to Live

August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

All I Own: Swedish Students Photographed With All Their Possessions Show How to Live With less | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building.

Dramatic Dartmoor Treehouse is Woven From Wood Like a Bird’s Nest (inhabitat.com)
Next-Generation High School Built in an Abandoned Mall 55 Days After Joplin Tornado (inhabitat.com)
Gaia @ Balestier (gaiabalestier.wordpress.com)
Copenhagen’s Tietgenkollegiet Dorm is the Coolest Circular Housing Complex on Campus (inhabitat.com)
EvoEnergy at Ecobuild 2012 (evoenergy.co.uk)
Green building’s ‘new normal’ – Sustainable Industries (sustainableindustries.com)
Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings (routledge.com)
10 Marketing Tips to Address Green Building’s New Expectations (triplepundit.com)
Buses converted to portable public art spaces (mentalflowers.wordpress.com)
Embracing Simplicity in a Complicated World (simplespaces.wordpress.com)

AN UNTRASHY TRAILER

May 21, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

English: Design for a sustainable living space. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

AN UNTRASHY TRAILER | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building.

Future-forward design for the world you inhabit – your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.

Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City (inhabitat.com)
Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of 2012 – Vote for Your Favorite! (inhabitat.com)
Inhabitat Editors’ Top Stories of 2012 – Vote for your Favorite! (inhabitat.com)
Carbon Heavy Qatar Roars Ahead in Green Building Innovation (urbantimes.co)
Integrating Sustainability (slideshare.net)
Feeling Pollluted? (designagogo.wordpress.com)
Green Star Workshops and Courses (ecocitizenaustralia.com.au)
quintessential Green Interiors – Sustainable Design Innovation. (stacymilesdesigner.wordpress.com)
Achievements of Green Architecture (geekoverture.wordpress.com)
Advanced Mobility Completes Installation of “Green” Northern-Air System into Mobile TV Group Trailer (prweb.com)

Couple transform school bus into tiny home on wheels

April 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Watch: Couple transform school bus into tiny home on wheels | MNN – Mother Nature Network.

EvoEnergy Creative Energy Homes (evoenergy.co.uk)
Tiny Stacked Marfa 10×10 House is a Minimalist Artistic Dwelling in Texas (inhabitat.com)
Self-Sustaining HOUS.E+ is a Rammed Earth Home of the Future in Vancouver (inhabitat.com)
A House for Three Sisters Combines Multiple Families and Sensitive Design in Spain (inhabitat.com)
Sustainably Supplying the Demand for Affordable Housing (smartcommunities.typepad.com)
Making a Beautiful Suburban Commute (gehlcitiesforpeople.dk)
Most amazing portable homes for modern nomads (ecochunk.com)
What is Sustainable Gardening? (eatdrinkbetter.com)
The Shape of Green: An argument for Beauty (Book Review) (treehugger.com)

Yestermorrow: Hands on Training in Sustainable Building and Design

June 1, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

The California Academy of Sciences, San Franci... — The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California. It’s a sustainable building designed by Renzo Piano, and opened on September 27, 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This school in Vermont provides hands on training on sustainable design. They will show you how to build all sorts of things including tiny homes as shown.

Certificate in Sustainable Building and Design.

Green Star Workshops and Courses (ecocitizenaustralia.com.au)
Zero Carbon Solar-Powered Long Studio Sits Gently Upon the Earth in Rural England (inhabitat.com)
Energy-Efficient Boat House Rises Like a Reed From Austria’s Milstätter Lake (inhabitat.com)
Trail Education – New In-Class Offering Trailbuilding (ontrails.wordpress.com)
Integrating Sustainability (slideshare.net)
New Book Is a Tour of Sustainable Design (greatenergychallengeblog.com)
Quest Assists IEWC through LEED Green Building Certification Program (prweb.com)
‘Green’ trend pushes engineers to be creative problem solvers (thegazette.com)

Exploration Architecture: Sustainable architecture, Biomimicry

May 27, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

The poetry of simple and sustainable architecture (Photo credit: London Permaculture)

This place designs buildings to mimic nature. Amazing.

Exploration Architecture, Sustainable architecture, Biomimicry

Cell Wall Structures – ‘Contouring Climatic Porosity’ is an Exercise in Architectural Biomimicry (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Biomimicry: An Increasingly Popular Sustainability Strategy (greenresearch.com)
Sustainable Architecture (lucagiordanobioarchitettura.wordpress.com)
Sustainable design 2.0: new models and methods (guardian.co.uk)
A statistical analysis of Hassani’s Mine Kafon (biomimicron.wordpress.com)
Modern Home Tours Returns to Silicon Valley, March 23 (prweb.com)
National Leader on Sustainability and Urban Design, Eric Corey Freed, to Appear at The Green Chamber: Phoenix Luncheon (prweb.com)
Will Biomimicry Offer a Way Forward, Post-Sandy? (green.blogs.nytimes.com)
Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of 2012 – Vote for Your Favorite! (inhabitat.com)
Sustainable Mountain Architecture for high altitudes (thehimalayantimes.com)

Philadelphia University | M.S. in Sustainable Design M.S. in Sustainable Design

September 9, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

Sometimes Gardening Can Be a Load of Balls! (Photo credit: antonychammond)

Philadelphia University | M.S. in Sustainable Design M.S. in Sustainable Design.

GreenSource: McGraw-Hill on-line directory of information on sustainable design, practice and products

May 9, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Linguistic Search, Systems Science

NYC: McGraw-Hill Building Plaza Sun Triangle (Photo credit: wallyg)

GreenSource | McGraw-Hill Construction’s on-line directory of information on sustainable design, practice and products.

New Studies Indicate Green Building Construction and Operations Remain Strong Despite Economy (leeddaily.com)
McGraw-Hill Education: Over 40 Free Educational Apps for iTunes (Science, Math, Reading + More!) (hip2save.com)
Aging Water Infrastructure Drives Greater Use of Asset Management, According to New McGraw-Hill Construction Study (sys-con.com)
McGraw-Hill Has Worst Day Since ‘Black Monday’ as DOJ Suit Looms (blogs.wsj.com)
How are You Using Sustainable Materials? (elocal.com)
McGraw-Hill, S&P Sued by U.S. Over Mortgage Bond Ratings (bloomberg.com)

New and emerging occupations in clean technology

May 9, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Systems Science

Cites new roles such as energy auditors, carbon traders, chief sustainability officers, sustainable design specialists, environmental certifcation specialists, green marketer

O*NET Resource Center – Greening of the World of Work: Implications for O*NET-SOC and New and Emerging Occupations.

How are You Using Sustainable Materials? (elocal.com)
The Future of Sustainable Design: Profile of Adital Ela (rincarnation.wordpress.com)
Integrating Sustainability (slideshare.net)
Sustainable design 2.0: new models and methods (guardian.co.uk)
Infiniti Emerg-E Concept (motortrend.com)
LEED for Commercial Spaces: Multiple Pieces, One Puzzle (sprayfoamdirect.com)
10 Most Impressive Smart Cities On Earth (freshome.com)
On the Job with the o*net API: US Department of Labor Exports Career Data (programmableweb.com)
Green Builder Media Announces VISION House Tucson (prnewswire.com)

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