Another good post in FastCompany’s Biomimicry – Nature of Innovation series: When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly. Continued at FastCompany.
Category Archives: liveable cities
How the iPad Could Disrupt the Home Energy Market
My iPad arrived on Saturday and it is one cool device! While there are question marks over Apple’s closed ecosystem, there’s no doubt about consumer interest. Like the Apple II, the Mac, iPod and iPhone before it, the launch of the iPad will be the tipping point for widespread adoption of nascent technology – in […]
Technology for the (Financially) Poor
What Can Architecture Learn From Nature?
Open Sustainability Network Event
Building the Bio-inspired City
What Can Architecture Learn From Nature?
Just Imagine – from CNN International
Check out a new series of short interview/documentaries from CNN International “Just Imagineâ€, especially the third in the series that centers Livable Cities and the role of biomimicry in solving some of our greatest challenges. More to follow!
Toxic Chemicals to be Dropped on SF Bay Area
“Harmful if inhaled. Avoid breathing vapor or spray mist.” Not the warning you might expect on a chemical soon to be sprayed over extensive areas around San Francisco. According to StopTheSpray.org, the pesticides currently used (CheckMate OLR-F and LBAM-F) have only undergone short-term tests on rats and rabbits. The manufacturer states, “Long-term studies on the […]
My Other Car is a Bright Green City
Another weighty editorial by WorldChanging’s Alex Steffen: Today’s cars are costly, dangerous and an ecological nightmare. What if the solution to the problems they create, though, has more to do with where we live than what we drive? Alex argues that building compact communities should be one of America’s highest environmental priorities, and says our […]