Architects, designers and horticulturalists are working together to develop edible and environmentally friendly 'living walls' in cities throughout the world.
… Living walls: a resilient trend Polly Allen | 15th … edible and environmentally friendly 'living walls' in cities throughout the world. At this … Urban Flow Garden for Thames Water: a living wall, or vertical garden. Woods created an …
Just as rich and poor are separated by walls of money, the Latin American trend is to add physical walls to keep wealthy and deprived communities entirely apart, write Camillo Boano & Belen Desmaison. On the one side people enjoy lavish homes, security, public services and piped water. On the other residents live in tiny shacks built of scraps, in a desert landscape ruled by criminals.
… Lima's 'Wall of Shame': the gated communities that … 2016 Comment Peru Cities Society lima-wall-cut.jpg Just as rich and poor are separated by walls of money, the Latin American trend is to …
The 3,100km concrete wall Donald Trump plans to build along the US-Mexico border would be a disaster for the border zone's ecosystems, writes Shonil Bhagwat. Among the species at risk: ocelots, bears, Bighorn sheep, the US's last wild jaguars facing genetic isolation north of the border, and the Bald eagle, the US's national bird.
… Trump's 'beautiful wall' threatens 111 endangered species Shonil … notice-cut.jpg The 3,100km concrete wall Donald Trump plans to build along the … It looks like Donald Trump's 'great, great wall' is actually going to happen. Its likely …
Constructing artificial underwater walls could help to limit sea-level rise according to models
… Could building a wall hold back glacial ice melt? Catherine … Constructing artificial underwater walls could help to limit sea-level rise … examined two methods – the first was to build walls underwater, blocking warm water from …
The private banking system that dominates North America and Europe works very well indeed, writes Ellen Brown - for the bankers. As for us, it's a disaster, as the banks use their monopoly over the creation of money itself, at interest, as a tool to extract ever more value from us and the entire economy. But there is another way!
… the 1890s. Then it was all about challenging Wall Street, reclaiming the government's power … of the people. Over a century later, Occupy Wall Street revived the populist challenge, … culture of greed unleashed by deregulating Wall Street, widening the yawning gap between …
Mexico's oil looks set to run out within a decade, writes Jeremy Leggett, and it can hardly rely on Trump's America to make up the difference. But Mexico enjoys abundant sunshine, and the cost of solar power generation is falling fast. Let Trump tie America's economy to debt-financed fossil fuels. Mexico's future prosperity will come from harnessing its inexhaustible solar riches.
… Mexico's expiring oil and Trump's wall: the future is solar Jeremy Leggett | … An example: Mexico could build its own wall, made of solar panels. Such a wall, 6 metres high along the full length of …
When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise worse, is it time to move further inland?
… Africa dakar.jpg When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise … there have been three attempts to build sea walls, none particularly successful. The walls are built without proper drainage …
London cyclists were protesting yesterday at the failure of all but a handful of London's 33 Boroughs to invest in safe cycle routes - and the many thousands of deaths that failure is causing. Donnachadh McCarthy reports.
… Protesting the London Boroughs 'wall of death' Donnachadh McCarthy | 3rd April 2014 Comment Transport London UK Health wall-of-death-3.png London cyclists were …
The experience of visiting a zoo is about to change dramatically, writes Robert Young. But far more important than the visitor, zoos will create a far richer, more diverse and stimulating environment for the animals that inhabit them.
… Zoos of the future break down the walls Robert Young | 24th May 2014 Comment … no longer need to stare at the same old four walls for the rest of their life. Instead, …
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout, writes Justin Wedes. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help!
… anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help! The … waves of the Detroit River lap up onto the wall of the riverwalk downtown, and young … Detroit. These are Detroit's Davids against Wall Street's Goliaths, and they need our …
Calling the natural world 'it' absolves us of moral responsibility and opens the door to exploitation, writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. To make our kinship with all life on Earth a life-affirming daily reality, we need a new pronoun for our fellow beings.
… kin - we need a new pronoun for nature Robin Wall Kimmerer | 25th April 2015 Comment … opens the door to exploitation, writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. To make our kinship with all … of Earth as the 'kin' they are. Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote this article for Together, …
Straw is cheap, plentiful, eco-friendly and an excellent insulator, writes Pete Walker - and officially certified prefabricated straw bale building systems are challenging traditional brick construction. So why aren't straw bale houses mushrooming on building sites across the country? Maybe they are ...
… insulation value of a typical straw bale wall meets the requirements of even the most … modest loadbearing as well as non-loadbearing walls. The oldest surviving straw bale … However, the development of prefabricated wall panels using straw bale for insulation …
The UK's 'Green Deal' energy efficiency scheme was a massive failure, writes Sue Roberts. But few knew just how bad until the NAO's report - which reveals that its main effect was to line the pockets of the Big Six energy companies, load the public with expensive loans, create a tangle of red tape, and engineer the collapse of the UK's nascent energy efficiency sector.
… Around 12 million have completely uninsulated walls. Under the scheme homes were to receive … by the Green Deal Finance Company. As solid wall insulation is so expensive, the Hex were … grants to householders, chiefly for solid wall insulation, under the Green Deal Home …
The fossil fuel industry's big reaction to Global Divestment Day shows us something important, writes Kate Aronoff - they understand the existential danger they face better than we do. To win the battle for the world's climate, as we must, the victory must be total - and there is no place for neutrality or weak compromise.
… compromise. A crowd gathered in the cold near Wall Street on Friday to call for New York's … Florence "tore a sheet from a calendar on the wall" and penned one of the song's lesser … natural gas producers, released a report and Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining the …
The first Living Architecture prototype – the 'living brick' – was launched during the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. Professor RACHEL ARMSTRONG argues that this technology could revolutionise our relationship with the built environment
… a building - such as an office - as a ‘living wall’. This wall is composed of three different kinds of … of these feedback systems, the ‘living wall’ becomes a metabolic ‘programming’ …
History will remember 2008 for its ‘crisis of capitalism’. The crash on Wall Street was the game-changer in the US election race, and it could soon be remembered as the gamechanger on climate change, too.
… for its ‘crisis of capitalism’. The crash on Wall Street was the game-changer in the US … for its ‘crisis of capitalism’. The crash on Wall Street was the game-changer in the US …
Drought is returning Lake Powell, impounded behind the Glen Canyon dam on the Colorado river, back to desert, writes Grant A. Mincy - and a fine thing too! As nature turns billions of dollars of infrastructural abomination to junk, this creates the chance to reclaim our commons and recreate ravaged ecosystems.
… The ravine is carved deep, with rugged walls of sandstone and rusted gorges. Rock … perhaps sometime soon, the carved canyon walls and sage coated landscape will once …
Lord Lawson is Britain's leading climate denier and claims warnings from scientists are alarmist. But Lawson as chancellor fundamentally failed to understand complex systems - and failed to raise the alarm. That didn't stop him making a personal fortune. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… 2018 Comment Fakenomics Lord Lawson Berlin Wall Institute Of Economic Affairs Sex Lines … in East Berlin began tearing down the Berlin Wall, but a Lawson free from political …
How do we seed mass social movements that can avert cataclysmic climate breakdown?
… Hybrid Strategy DREAM Act Migration Occupy Wall Street Tipping Point UK Ayni Institute … perhaps best exemplified by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) mass protests of 2011. The … organising. However, the failure of Occupy Wall Street resulted in a deep frustration …
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden
… wolves dancing on the other side of wall. Except that these Republicans believe … We now so most of us are placed outside their wall, out in the darkness that they love to … dark extras, and those bright, technologized walls. Then suddenly I can imagine the …
The 'Kigali Amendment' agreed this weekend to control HFC gases thousands of times more powerful than CO2 is the first major step in delivering the goals of the Paris agreement, writes Nigel Paul - and a second huge success for the Montreal Protocol, originally agreed to save the ozone layer from destruction by CFCs.
… and public attention, culminating in the wall-to-wall coverage of last year's Paris Climate …
George Catlin's original vision of national parks saw them as providing a refuge for 'man and beast' alike, writes Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, giving Indians a home in the 'freshness of their nature's beauty'. But soon the National Parks Service was violating promises, treaties and contracts as it perpetrated over a century of land theft from America's Indian tribes.
… stopped in the men's room at the Hole-in-the-Wall visitor center in Mojave National … decent, this particular poster - hung on the wall with other ones - would have given the … settlement from the ICC. In 1974, the NPS swallowed up another chunk of ancestral Indian …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory
… thought. What’s that, up there on that great wall above me? IS THAT ANOTHER UNASKED-FOR … dog food that shoots like water down a glass-walled canyon through 70 countries, …
Business leaders have taken some initiatives to reduce the impact they have on the natural environment. Here, EMILY FOLK examines how a company can make a difference in the office - and beyond.
… pursuits typically start within their own walls. This is especially true for companies … the community outside of your company’s walls, too. A business with the means can …