Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
October 11th, 2007 | 
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Re-greening Chicago is a short video about greening urban space and other environmental actions within the urban area.
design for sustainability is a joint publication by the UNEP and Delft University of Technology on
Design for Sustainability: a practical approach for developing economies. 
The site is basically a set of .pdf documents explaining the concepts and how to do it! you can find an introduction to the publication and the concepts on the website or here (.pdf, 260kb). to be able to implement sustainable ideas in our daily life we need that people who plan and design the products and services we use to have an understanding of the concept of sustainability but also the tools to be able to implement that understanding, d4s is a good step in the right direction.
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micro compact home or m-ch is a prefab with potential, measuring 266cm*266cm*266cm its very compact, no big area foot-print, it costs a mere 25k-34k euros (depending on contract) 
and is currently shipped to all parts of europe (at an extra cost of course). there is also there is a low e-home version (low energy home) which includes a vertical windmill and PV-solar panels. the picture is a capture from the web page it links to. aka. not mine. check it out at: http://www.microcompacthome.com/index.php.
Friday evening in Ekenäs (Tammisaari in Finnish) archipelago while waiting for the sauna to warm up.
I spent the weekend in my familys cottage enjoying the surroundings and the stillness of nature.
The water level this weekend is the highest I’ve ever experienced out here, it’s been very high on all occations I’ve visited the archipelago this year. This however does not yet reflect from ice sheets melting on Greenland or anywhere else. It does however show us the difference in landscape we will have to become used to in the near future as the climate is warming.
The high waterlevels (according to The Baltic Sea Portal) have during July been up to 30 cm (1ft) above normal in the Bay of Finland (Hanko and Helsinki are the closest). For a short explanation about what affects sea levels, have a look at the Finnish Institute of Marine Research‘s pages.
More pictures on Flickr among them the tallship Europa we met in the archipelago.