worldchanging.com edie.net NewsRe-greening Chicago is a short video about greening urban space and other environmental actions within the urban area.
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the U.K. based programme WRAP (Waste and Rescources Action Programme) published a report in the spring of 2007 with the findings that prefabricated buildings could cut construction waste by a staggering 90%! by increasing the use of off site manufacture and modern methods of construction. this is adding to the cost and time predictability as [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Yesterday I bought a Bialetti Venus (6 cups) espresso maker in stainless steel, I have been using one of their aluminum ones (3 cups) I bought for work at home, I can’t live without atleast one proper cup of fair-trade organic espresso per day, but I felt it was time to get a proper one for the household finally.
I [...]
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Starting on the 6th of june and going on till the 10th, Olohuone.org will arrange a series of art events in Turku (check out) http://www.olohuone.org.
Turku Design Week is a design event in Turku where local design companies as well as young designers present their work during 5 days. 11-16th of June.
http://www.turkudesign.fi
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Even though I usually choose the more sane and sustainable thing I now and again get the urge to just waste energy in the form of petrol. I’m the proud owner of a Triumph motorcycle and the feeling of freedom when riding is amazing. This is also a big problem for society as a lot [...]
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Even though we rate high in SD, innovation, education and what-not-indicators I have to say that living in Finland can be VERY frustrating sometimes. I just read about the scheme in the UK to give real-time-electricity-cost-meters to the consumers. A way for people to follow their energy consumption and that it costs right now. This [...]
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