The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

By GEOFF WILSON Building and operating commercial greenhouses on supermarket rooftops in the United States is the award-winning idea for a new business named Sky Vegetables http://www.skyvegetables.com/sky-vegetables/. It is an idea expected to be widely adopted around the world as peak oil cost increases and climate change problems seriously challenge traditional agricultural production. Last month [...]

This is not a post on green roofs, but all of you knows that I’m sometime sposting articles on great projects that are innovative. So this is definitely a great one! The Atkins designed Bahrain World Trade Center (BWTC) made history today as the turbines were turned together for the first time. The three 29m-diameter [...]

Sure, you’ve heard of the insular and aesthetic merits of green roofs. How about green walls?   Enter Oulu, an eco-chic bar and lounge situated in Brooklyn NY. Designed by architect and sustainability expert Evangeline Dennie, Oulu takes a literal approach to fresh design. Wrapped in a herbaceous façade, the LEED gold certified building bears its [...]

Imagine your next summer backyard party: the sun has just gone down, the music is playing, and, as the breeze picks up, the lights come on from a string of solar powered, wind-lit LED lights. This innovative design for enchanting outdoor lighting is from Yoshihiro Shimomura, a circuit designer design lecturer at Chiba University in [...]