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Why Design Now?

Perrin Drumm — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:08:47 +0000

"Why Design Now?", the latest exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, poses a pretty silly question. I can't think of a single reason not to design now or ever, for that matter. But if there are any skeptics out there, the plethora of good ideas and amazing, major-problem solving solutions in the form of everything from product design to community planning will surely shut them up.

The invisible streetlight wraps around branches, integrating itself into the surrounding environment.

Report: Energy Efficiency Could Halve U.S. Greenhouse Gases by 2050

Sundance Channel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:17:41 +0000

Energy efficiency investments can provide up to half the greenhouse gas emissions reductions most scientists say are needed between now and the year 2050 to avert the worst effects of climate change, finds a new report from the nonprofit and independent American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, ACEEE.

Threatened Fish Get a Boost in California Water Struggle

Sundance Channel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:17:48 +0000

SACRAMENTO, California, June 5, 2009 (ENS) – Water pumping operations in California’s Central Valley by the federal Bureau of Reclamation jeopardize the survival of several threatened and endangered species of fish and whales, finds a formal biological opinion issued Thursday by the National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [...]

Green Job Details

Sundance Channel — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:45:00 +0000

There has been ample discussion about the need for Green Jobs in the Obama Administration’s stated plans for the U.S. economy. What exactly is a green job? If you boiled down the basic definition of Green Jobs, you would find the following maxim; a green job is any job where the environmental impact involved in [...]