Passive House, or Passivhaus design is finally becoming really active in North America, and is popping up in communities across the country. Just recently we showed a traditional one in Oregon, but are back to form with the R-House, the winner of a design competition “provide a new model for formerly vital, urban residential neighborhoods throughout the United States through the creation of sustainable, affordable housing.”
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R-House in Syracuse Can Be Heated With A Hair Dryer
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Image credit: Friends of the Earth UK What’s a herd of cows doing on the London Underground? Having enlisted singing cows to help fix the food chain , Friends of the Earth UK has now launched an underground (sorry!) “Moovement” to demand rainforest free meat and dairy. Click below the fold to see some very confused commuters. The only trouble is, I’m confused about the whole thing too…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cows on the London Undergound: A Good Stunt, But What’s It For? (Video)
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A CT scan showing slow coral growth of a coral species in the Red Sea. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Global warming is wreaking havoc on plant and animal populations around the world: Polar bear habitats are melting, giant trees in Yosemite are thinning , and
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Coral Species in Red Sea Barely Growing, Thanks to Global Warming
The challenge in the “1, 2, 3… easy kitchen!” competition shown in Designboom was to design a kitchen that occupied less than 1 square meter (about 10 square feet). Kristin Laass and Norman Ebelt of burg giebichenstein: hochschule fur kunst und design halle have done it with real style. Opened, it has everything: a fridge, sink, induction range and oven…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tiny Transformer Kitchen Occupies Less Than 10 Square Feet When Closed
Bonnie recently covered the five shortlisted designs in the Beyond the Hive Competition . Designers were challenged to create ” an ecologically sustainable and creative insect habitat.” The winner the Golden Beetle Award is Arup Associates for their high-rise insect hotel… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Engineers Design Prize-Winning Insect Hotel For London Parks
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There is the Pritzker, the Prix de Rome, the RIBA and the AIA awards, and then there is the Shed of the Year prize, honouring the best of this “cornerstone of British culture.” I have had the honour of being a judge three years running, and my top choice never won before. But this year, there was no contest at all, The Lady Sarah Out of Worthing , Southend-on-Sea, Essex Owned by Reg Miller, ran away with the show. I love the idea of sheds because they g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ahoy Matey, Shed Of The Year Competition Winner Announced
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Images from University of Florida, from site or via designboom We always say that one of the ways we can design new buildings to use a lot less energy is to design them like old buildings, that Everything New is Old Again , particularly when it comes to getting rid of air condition… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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University of Florida’s Entry At Solar Decathlon Mixes Old Ideas, New Technology
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Team Finland hails from Aalto University, and Alvar Aalto would be proud of this of this stunning little pile of lumber. It’s passively heated and designed for the cold and dark Finnish climate, with solar hot water collectors and photovoltaics on the roof. Given the importance of wood in Finnish design and architecture, they are highlighting it:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gorgeous Woodsy Finnish Entry in Solar Decathlon Wins First Prize For Architecture
a portion of the winning entry A lot of people had doubts about the Betacup Challenge , a competition “in search of a solution to the rampant wastage of unrecyclable paper coffee cups”. There are perfectly good solutions out there right now, like reusable or travel mugs. On the Betacup site’s ” why we don’t switch to reusable page, they write that “one possible answer to this question is that it is simply not convenient.” Gee, what a surprise. But a lot of smart people are behind this, i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Winner Of BetaCup Challenge isn’t A Cup, It’s The KarmaCup
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Every year the Electrolux Design Competition introduces some fascinating concepts into the world of food; sometimes they are even green; this year most of them are just bizarre. Perhaps the prize should be a copy of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules; these people have never seen a kitchen, and in fact seem anti-food. Emma, shown above, doesn’t even have a kitchen, but a holodeck helmet that lets her see an virtual one. “The thoughts of the user are then transmitted to robotic chefs within the building who then prepare the visualised meal in a real kitchen and with real ingredients. In effect, the headset replaces the need for kitchen appliances in ind… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Electrolux Design Competition Finalists are Just Weird This Year
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