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More Electric Cars Added To S.F. Bay Area Car Sharing Fleet
The idea of car sharing, where multiple paying members of an organization have hourly access to a scattered fleet of ready to go vehicles, is a really great idea for cutting down on car pollution. That being said, the fleets of these car sharing...
The $200 Tiny "Pod" Home, Courtesy of Recycled Materials
Dream of building your own home, but lacking both cash and time? A natural builder raised a tiny home in rural Oregon over the course of just two months, at a total cost of just $200 — the cost of screws, nails, tarpaper and sand.The builder...
Wireless EV Charging Technology Comes To Mass Transit
As mass transit fleets strive to be greener, electric and hybrid bus offerings are becoming increasingly common. Charging the electric ones though limits how much time they can be used though, but this may be changing as innovation at Utah State...
In India, A “Universal Town” Has Become A Green Building Lab
In southern India, a community founded with a spiritual purpose has become a bit of a test bed for green building.Auroville is an “experimental” township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Pondicherry. Founded in 1968 by...
In Detroit, Mini Golf Meets The Zombiepocalypse
Down for a little putt-putt, Motor City style? Forget about taking a shot through the windmill, under the bridge or through that revolving door. Forget about the plastic animals, the astroturf, or even paying a fee. Mini golf at the Urban Put-Put...
A Smog-Fighting Billboard For Los Angeles?
Vermont may have helped to protect the aesthetics of its natural landscapes through its state-wide billboard ban. But in Los Angeles — and possibly cities all over the world — billboards may actually become part of the natural landscape, and help to...
High Line-Style Project For Sydney
Old railroads are all the rage when it comes to adaptive reuse. New York City kicked off the trend with its High Line park, which officially opened to the public last year. Now we’ve got Chicago’s long-anticipated rails-to-trails park system, the...
Vancouver Will Pave Its Streets With Recycled Plastic
Normally, trash in the street is a negative characteristic for a major city, but it’s put the city of Vancouver, Canada in the headlines in a positive way. City officials recently announced that Vancouver will be the first-ever city to include...
A Low-Tech, Recycled Roof Design For Disaster Housing
Call it the positive convergence of two negative environmental trends. There are, by all accounts, a whole lot of discarded plastic bottles in the world. (According to some recent statistic, the contents of 1,500 more of them are being consumed each...
This Tiny Home May Be The World’s Thinnest Building
Talk about a tiny physical footprint. The Keret House in Warsaw, Poland, measures just 28 inches wide at its skinniest point, and 4 feet wide at its fattest. But this little home in the ancestral homeland of Israeli writer Etgar Keret, it...
Green Lab Raises The Bar With Cradle-To-Cradle Design
Set back from a busy road in Wageningen, the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) may not catch the eye of casual passersby. But across that 90-foot-long timber walkway spanning a pond full of reeds and frogs — and behind all those...
How Urban Transportation Should Be: Toyota’s Ha:mo System
What if you could get around major urban centers in a way that best helps you determine more carbon friendly ways to cover longer distances than one might normally walk or bike? Such a system is being slowly tested in Japan by Toyota in...
