Luxury Condo designed by Astley Ng and renovated by sohoarc. Green Interior Designing is used in this 83 sqm apt on the 59th Floor. The client’s brief was simply, “make it look as spacious as possible”… With mirrors and glass integrated into the design, and the use of some interest customised furniture like a full glass desk coupled with a ‘ghost’ transparent chair and a glass dining table.
Clip from the PBS television series “Simple Living With Wanda Urbanska”. Season 3, episode 6: Green Building www.simplelivingtv.net Find out why building green — whether you’re remodeling or building from the ground up — is gold; how buildings are being designed and built for efficient use of energy and natural resources. In this special program, you’ll meet architects, builders, and experts who are defining the future of construction. Check your local PBS listing starting April, 2008 for season 4.
Teachers, books and dirty looks! School is back in session. Umbra takes a trip to College of the Atlantic, the first carbon neutral campus in the country to see what green things theyre up to. She gives tips you can use on your campus and gives out a gold star too. Fill your mind with these Grist links: A Green Cheat Sheet for Back to School www.grist.org Goody for U 15 Ways Campuses are Going Greener www.grist.org A Grist Special Series on Eco-Activism www.grist.org SYLLABUS: (should we link to our amazon account? And or add more books?) Wake Up and Smell the Planet, Grist Deep Economy, Bill mckibben Silent Spring, Rachel Carson The Green Collar Economy, by Van Jones Big Coal, by Jeff Goodell
Green technology and energy efficient gadgets and toys were a big hit at the Consumer Electronics Show. Everyone is concerned with conserving energy, incorporating “green” aspects to their products and pulling in customers with the latest energy saving products. With green products ranging from solar charging backpacks, home electronics and tvs to a highway-safe electric motorcycle, there was something green for everyone was the Consumer Electronics Show.
Google Tech Talks September 18, 2008 ABSTRACT Sopogy is bringing smaller concentrated solar energy systems to the market: Process heat, air conditioning, and power generation. You will hear about the first renewable energy and solar technology to ever be awarded the New Product of the Year by the Society of Professional Engineers. A product will be set up for viewing. Speaker: Al Yuen
