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PDOT, Alta Planning and Design and Bike Portland: Growing a Bikeable U.S. City

One of the highest priorities for sustainable living is oil-free transportation, and one of the best solutions is the bicycle. The best bicycling city in the world is Copenhagen, but as the blog Copenhagenize says, "Forty years ago Copenhagen was just ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  8 Jul 2009

Greener By Design 2009

The conference, held last week in San Francisco, was actually the best conference I've been to in a while. For whatever reason, the conversations I had with people were unusually excellent, and the number of people I met was large. Kudos to organizer ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  27 May 2009
Related Topics: Joel Makower,  Wal-Mart,  David de Rothschild,  William J McDonough

Solar Carbon Payback

Some naysayers argue that solar panels don't make sense because it takes so much energy to make them--mining, smelting or refining, processing, etc. Do they really save fossil fuel energy and greenhouse gas emissions over the long run? The simple ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  18 May 2009

Persuasive Design for Sustainability

There's a difference between green engineering and green design. Green engineering reduces people's ecological impact without requiring them to change their habits. For instance, when you replace coal power with wind power, the consumer still just ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  17 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Hacking The Auto X-Prize

The result is the very odd and somewhat dangerous notion that "the more we drive the car, the more we scrub greenhouse gases from the atmosphere" ... I have no idea if and how the Auto X Prize will deal with this entry. It causes lots of ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  6 Apr 2009

ETech 2009: Adobe on Sustainability

At ETech last week, Kevin Lynch from Adobe talked about some sustainability-related things they're working on. The most important-sounding one was actually just briefly mentioned: Acrobat Connect, a web-conferencing tool. I haven't used it, and he didn' ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Kevin Lynch,  Cisco Systems, Inc.

ETech 2009: RedMonk on Smart Grids

James Governor from RedMonk talked about smart grids, with the interesting conclusion that not only will they make renewable power more feasible; but they will also make it cheap. On wholesale electricity markets, apparently, the cheapest power is ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Amory Lovins,  eBay Inc.

Compostmodern '09

This past weekend in San Francisco was , the green design conference we've mentioned many times before (Alex Steffen keynoted last year's event). Despite being thrown by the AIGA, it feels much more like an industrial design conference. I personally ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  23 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Saul Griffith,  Alex Steffen,  AIGA,  Joel Makower

Casa De Botellas: Turning Waste into Modular Construction

bottle joint, and daughter's playhouse    tetrapak roofing, from inside and from outside (showing both uncovered & covered) chair, curtain, decorations from bottles I'm not usually impressed by people making products or buildings out of ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  10 Feb 2009

Organic Chlorophyll Battery

A scientist in Taiwan has invented the world's first chlorophyll organic battery that can supply electricity within 10 seconds of being wetted with water, beverages or even urine. Chungpin Hovering Liao, a professor at the Graduate School of ...

From JEREMY FALUDI, WorldChanging,  4 Nov 2008

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