Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
If you haven’t been following the Guardian debate between George Monbiot and Jeremy Leggett of Solar Century, it’s worth having a read here and and here.
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Four homes and a business unit being built to PassivHaus standards are currently under construction in Highbury, North London.
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While at Masdar, I spent half a day on site at Central Market - a massive project in downtown Abu Dhabi which aims to give the downtown a civic heart and become Abu Dhabi’s premier address.
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Travelling design practice StudioJonandNina exhibited The Algae Room at 100% Design Tokyo as part of the Tokyo Designers Week 2009.
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This is the newst concept from Philips Design Probes, a research team looking into the future of ‘lifestyle’ after 2020.
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China’s growing renewables industry has been a lot in the news recently. Jonathan Porritt of Forum for the Future, who introduced the RIBA Ashden debate last week, is just back from Shanghai where he has been researching a series for the BBC.
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Sharp has created the first solar-powered mobile phone.
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A report released this week by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) proposes a future filled with artificial trees and algae tubes on buildings to buy time on reducing C02 emissions.
Fly swatter-shaped trees, already developed in prototype, contain filters which capture C02, which then can be collected and stored. The report estimates that 100,000 such [...]
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Guest blogger Paul Hinkin, managing director of Black Architecture on the ‘Hydrogen Age’
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The Scarlett Hotel, Cornwall, is being touted by its owners as ‘an eco hotel like no other’ and opens in September 2009 with the aim of spreading the message that ‘luxury does not have to cost the earth’.
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