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World’s 1st Plantagon Greenhouse for Urban Farming Under Construction (in Sweden)
Here’s a pretty cool urban farming solution—a Plantagon greenhouse for urban farming. Construction on the first one broke ground in Sweden last week. This unique vertical-farming greenhouse will also be “[part of] an international Centre of Excellence for Urban Agriculture, a demo-plant for Swedish clean-tech [...]
If you want to be competitive, more and more building owners are seeing that it is necessary to improve energy and environmental performance. The trends show how this is being done.
Suntech and DuPont have signed a strategic sourcing agreement to drive faster and broader adoption of solar energy, reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Fuel from cheap, abundant wood waste with a new water tech that has captured the imagination of VCs, Industry, PA Governor Corbett, the Navy and US DOE.
Mattel’s latest career girl is a LEED AP professional.
With a new career and a winning house design that includes a meditation space, green roof, low flow water fixtures and more, Barbie is ready for a low energy and water conscious world. No longer trapped in a dream house fit for a damsel in distress, Ting [...]
Modern bathrooms combine water conservancy with high design.
Mounted at the newly relocated Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), Duravit Starck’s designs for Duravit will be on display as part of a popular exhibit entitled WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design. Since its opening at the end of June, the WaterDream exhibit has been getting great response [...]
Stockholm World Water Week Raises Awareness
In honor of the upcoming World Water Week, when environmental leaders from across the globe will convene in Stockholm, we wanted to update you on Duravit’s efforts to raise awareness on water issues. As you may know, Duravit recently sponsored the Water is Life poster competition that calls students and [...]
The World’s first LED Replacement for the 75-Watt Light Bulb
There are more choices than ever before that can reduce energy costs over the traditional incandescent bulbs.
On Monday, May 16th, Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG), the industry leader in LED lighting solutions, announced the world’s first LED replacement for the 75-watt light bulb, unveiled this week [...]
The search for utility scale energy that is cheap, carbon neutral, plentiful and safe has been this millennia’s search for the alchemist’s dream to turn lead into gold. US DOE and 38 countries are building the big experiment.
According to Paul G. Falkowski, Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, science can be dangerous because it provides data that forecasts the unintended consequences of short term political policy.
In his talk at Princeton University, Falkowski argued that science and data–peer reviewed science–must inform policy in order to mitigate the results of unintended consequences as they [...]
