With the opening ceremony of the London Olympics only days away, organizers prepare to celebrate what may be the one of the greenest Olympic Games to date. For Olympic organizers, sustainability has been a major focus in planning the Games’ venues. Forbes notes that existing or temporary venues are utilized whenever possible. For permanent structures, …
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Hauling trash-bags full of coffee grounds and kitchen scraps, two three-wheeled rickshaw bicycles raced past campus foot traffic. The fleet had just finished their first compost pickup. The owner of the cafe, Devon Jackson-Kali, met the students near the cafe to give them leftover coffee grounds…he also gave them pounds of cabbage heads, carrot peelings, …
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I particularly like the paintings on the ground that give depth, like you’re falling into a mouth or a bowl of soup.
“…reduce our carbon footprint by 30%, utilities by 30%, and waste by 100%.” More details from the Air Canada Center: The Air Canada Center…has identified three areas where it can most affect its impact on the environment: Energy, Waste and Water. Energy Energy is the largest component of MLSE’s footprint. It is a required …
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An interesting concept for a beach home is profiled in the LA Times. The house is built into a cliff using “rammed-earth,” concrete slabs, and recycled materials. D’Acosta and Turrent began their two-year construction project by digging a foundation into the cliff, then constructing a perimeter of 3-foot-thick rammed-earth retaining walls. They called the inner …
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Plastic bags contribute to the pollution of California’s ocean and beaches. Californians use approximately 16 billion plastic bags per year – more than 400 annually per person. Less than 5 percent of plastic bags are recycled. Instead, they end up sitting in landfills, littering streets, clogging streams, fouling beaches, or floating out to sea. Plastic …
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Los Angeles is not only top in California, but also leads the nation’s large cities in water conservation. Since June 2009, when Mandatory Water Conservation took effect in the City of Los Angeles, Angelenos have saved more than 75 billion gallons – more than one-third of what Los Angeles uses in one year. Water use …
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Facebook’s new campus is up and the employees are moving in. Here are some insights into the goodies they have laid out: The whole campus is connected through a central courtyard. Right now it’s still filled with bulldozers and dirt, but when it’s finished, we’ll have two full-service cafes, two coffee shops, on-site doctors, a …
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Facebook’s new campus is up and the employees are moving in. Here are some insights into the goodies they have laid out: The whole campus is connected through a central courtyard. Right now it’s still filled with bulldozers and dirt, but when it’s finished, we’ll have two full-service cafes, two coffee shops, on-site doctors, a …
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Yesterday, Google released it’s electricity usage and the numbers are fantastical. The company uses 260 million watts which is the output of 1/4 of a nuclear power plant. For each google search we use 0.3 watt-hours of electricity. I’m not sure how much that is but I do like the idea of server firing up when …