worldchanging.com edie.net NewsThe most interesting part of Gores speech for me was the strong point he made (oh he’s not the first or last) about dependence on foreign oil and renewables for the U.S. The economic, social and political, for this is surely big politics I argue not, points of his speech are the most interesting part [...]
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Vice President Al Gore as well as citizen and presidential candidate Barak Obama.
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Regarding the “eco vacations” some travel agencies sell these days;
One of the best eco vacations would be local travel by bicycle or by foot. I’m sure there are many a location fairly near to where one lives that you have not visited or don’t know much about.
For a more distant location rail is by far [...]
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Re-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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design for sustainability is a joint publication by the UNEP and Delft University of Technology onDesign 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 [...]
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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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posted by me first as a comment to, “no news is good news” on unformal.
especially in today society if you have a look at any regular newscast you?ll see a multitude of death and suffering but very rarely the happy news unless its revolutionary, of course suffering is also important to show but showing the [...]
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Documenta 12, I was visiting Germany between the 25th of June and the 3rd of July. I took part in the 3rd Oasis of the 1st Expedition with NUROPE, the Nomadic University of Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe. http://www.nurope.eu We visited and discussed the 12th Documenta an exhibition of contemporary art. For a little [...]
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I’m at the moment sitting in an auditorium in the Finnish Parliament taking part in a seminar about culture for sustainable development and development cooperation in the area of culture. It is a two day seminar arranged in Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish) the first day at the Hanaholmen conference centre, the second at the Finnish Parliament. Alot of the participants are form government, especially the Finnish Ministry for Foreign affairs and the Ministry for Education.
How can we take the [...]
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