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Setting Sail
A recent collaboration between SkySails and the Bremen-based Beluga Group has culminated in the trial transoceanic run of a wind-powered cargo ship. The MS Beluga SkySails left Germany on ...
Green Cross
Inspired by ideas set forth by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International hopes that a paradigm shift in social attitudes and values will lead to a more sustainable and peaceful global community. The group ...
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Hearth and Home
Three innovative programs use cooking technology as a tool for making education and greener technology more widely available. While all three work to make food preparation more efficiently, each sees development in ...
Community Agriculture
Oregon-based Food Not Lawns questions the social, economic, and ecological impact of the monotonous green lawn and urges supporters to use land in ways that foster local self-reliance and greater community awareness. ...
Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would increase transparency ...
Bioculture
Terralinguaconceptualizes ecology and conservation in broad ways, incorporating human cultures and languages into its vision of biological and environmental diversity. Rather than viewing the human relationship to nature as one that ...
Sonic Attack
Artist Iain Mott coordinates installation pieces that use mixed media--especially sound--to explore the connection between participant-audience members and the environment. Past projects, recorded on the Reverberant site, have included Summoned Voices, a work that used ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome. Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively simple. Have ...
Whole Tree Architecture
Roald Gundersen's Whole Tree Architecture incorporates unmilled trees into design and construction, creating buildings that balance an organic sense of style with a unique approach to preservation and sustainable development. Gundersen uses local ...
Arboreal Installations
In the early 1980s, Martin Orram imagined a project that would help the public recapture a sense of the wonder and poetry of nature. The original vision grew to become the
Green Web
A number of internet service providers and web hosting firms incorporate renewable energy and sustainable design into their business models. Affordable Internet Services Online relies on solar panels to power its data center ...
The Poetry of Community
Virginia-based planning firm Sympoetica balances green design principles, a vibrant aesthetic sense, and respect for history with a usercentric approach to land use. The planners believe that designs based on nature--with an ...
Community Forest
The Children & Elder Forest program promotes environmental preservation by building bridges between youths, seniors, and community groups. Based in McLean County in central Illinois, the nonprofit group plants native trees throughout area ...
In the Light
Daylighting blends sustainable design techniques, industrial psychology and ergonomics, and environmental awareness to create usable spaces that connect people to the outside world while reducing their energy demands. Using carefully placed windows, ...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Freecycle Network began as a small effort linking non-profit groups and businesses in Tuscon, Arizona. Originally created to promote recycling among businesses and provide jobs for people in need, the group quickly found itself connecting ...