Real Resilience Comes from Expanding Our Footprint?!
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“We, in ManTownHuman, believe that a more critical, arrogant and future-oriented cadre of architects and designers can challenge the new eco-centred, bureaucratic, anti-intellectual, fragmentary, localising consensus and in this way can lay the ground rules for overcoming the cosy rut in which architecture now finds itself.”
Every now and then a subject for a post comes along that is so wrong headed that I struggle with whether I should fan the flames of publicity, or leave it well alone. But as the rece…Read the full story on TreeHugger
New Search Engine For Carbon Emissions Data Launched By AMEE
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The Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine, or AMEE, is an organization with an audacious goal: to track the energy footprint of everything on earth. It entails an enormous amount of work, from figuring out how to track it to actually aggregating the data. But the project is doing well, and AMEE has just launched a new tool that helps put much of the information gathered into the hands of anyone who wants to know. AMEE Explorer is a search…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Facebook Could Eliminate 75% of Its Servers by Changing Their Programming Code
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Or at least that’s the argument of one programmer, who writes that by switching from PHP to C++, Facebook could move from 30,000 servers down to just 7,500 servers, and trim 49,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from its footprint. But as you can guess, this statement doesn’t go without debate. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Rainwater Showers: One Solution for Tybee Island Tourists
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Let’s say you’re a small town or village and a large portion of your economy is dependent on tourism. Let’s say you are also, while concerned about sustaining your economy, concerned with sustaining the natural environment – the very thing that keeps tourists coming back and thus sustains your economy. How do you ensure that the footprint of all of these aliens is small enough or better yet invisible to protect your island? This is the challenge that <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Cob House Built For Less Than $3,000
Kent at Tiny House Blog notes that “you can build your own cob house with little money, but with lots of time and enthusiasm.” He shows us 24 year-old Ziggy’s cob (a mixture of straw, clay, and sand similar to adobe) with a footprint of 360 square feet built for under three thousand bucks. (Yes, that is $ 8.33 per square foot.)
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5 Golf Courses Up to Environmental Par
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Love hitting the links but hate the environmental damage? You’re not alone: Golfing is one of the most popular hobbies around, but the footprint of the courses–from constant grass watering (one course can use up to 30,000 gallons a day) to extensive land development to all the chemicals that go into that crisp green color–mean it poses more hazards than a sand trap. But as green goes mainstream, more and more courses are keeping the earth in mind as they plan, build, and remodel their front and back nines. So break out the <a href=”http://www.treehugger.c…Read the full story on TreeHugger