An email that arrived in my inbox this week called my attention and I decided to share it with you. It is about a DVD called The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. According to the...
Category - Inspiration
I live in the suburbs. When we moved in, the main road was just re-built from two lanes to six. I actually saw them remove the construction zone signs. Since then, eight years ago, we have gotten a mall, four strip malls, four gas stations, at...
When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. Kamkwamba keeps a blog about his energy adventure and he...
It has become part of our vocabulary, but the term ‘sustainable development’ wasn’t coined that long ago. It was first used by Gro Harlem Brutland, a Norwegian doctor, politician and diplomat, in the seminal article Our Common...
From Beligium is a project that caught my attention recently. Passive House denotes a specific construction standard for residential buildings with good comfort conditions during winter and summer, without traditional heating systems and without...
