Designed by Hufft Projects, the “Bent and Sliced House” puts an innovative idea – bending a home to accommodate the curving slope of the site – into action. In addition to bending the house, slicing and unfolding it in a manner similar to Japanese Origami is introduced to create clerestories allowing opportunities for daylighting and natural ventilation
The most efficient solar tech on the market today is the silicon solar cell. There’s just one drawback–implementing the tech costs up to $4 per watt, almost four times the cost of fossil fuel-derived electricity. Luckily, an innovative new production process could completely revolutionize the solar industry.
Inhabitat readers huffprojects recently wrote in to tell us about this green office complex they designed for their clients R.
We love seeing new furniture ideas that implement used, discarded, eco-friendly and recycled materials , but it’s not often that we find a chair that uses zero materials in construction. The OOoo Chair is an innovative concept that presses us to consider all of the energy and material waste issues associated with furniture production and disposal, but with a bit of amusement. So what do you have to do to get your hands on one of these chairs
Inhabitat reader Erin tells us that the University of North Texas is in the midst of building the first LEED certified college football stadium in the US ! After The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the proposal back in October the university held a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the special occasion.
The EPA announced this week the addition of 10 hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. One of the sites added to the NPL is the super-famous and now Superfunded Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York .
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified in front of a Senate appropriations subcommittee Wednesday about the EPA’s planned carbon permit policy .
One day after Obama announced his “Cash for Caulkers” energy efficiency program , a group of senators is trying to block government-funded, international renewable energy projects. In a letter to be read at a news conference today, the group of Democratic officials argue that financing renewables overseas under the Recovery Act runs counter to the economic stimulus plan’s goal: to create and preserve American jobs. Read the rest of Senators Try to Block Government Financing for Renewable Energy Projects Overseas Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cash for Caulkers , Chuck Schumer , Cielo Wind Power , energy efficiency programs , international renewable energy , Jon Tester , Recovery Act , Recovery Act projects , Robert Casey , senators block stimulus funds , senators block stimulus funds for renewable energy , Shenyang Power Group , Sherrod Brown , stimulus and energy efficiency , Texas wind energy project , Timothy Geithner
The passing of Measure R at the end of 2008 provided Los Angeles County with funds for up to $40 billion in transit-related projects over the next 30 years. The measure also inspired a competition to design new transport solutions, and Paris-based Odile Decq and Bonit Conrnette Architects have proposed an extensive plan to make the ‘freeway city’ a little greener
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