Currently more than 40% of Caracas’ inhabitants live in informal settlements or shanty towns know as barrios. The massive exodus from rural areas to the city as a consequence of the oil boom in the 50’s largely influenced the…
There was more than 10 000 tons of illegal waste lying around in Estonian nature. In october 2007, as a group of active citizens, we realised that something drastic needs to be done. We developed a special software and…
After living a few years in the United States, my attention was caught by a handful of people who chose to escape the wasteful aspects of more typical American living by ignoring the pristine suburban lawn aesthetic, reducing their…
En la 8a Edición del Máster de Diseño y Arquitectura de la Escuela Superior de Diseño ELISAVA (UPF) se realizó un trabajo de investigación dirigido por Ricardo Devesa (Doctorando de la Columbia University, New York y profesor de Composición, ETSAB-UPC)…
Os presento aquí la "Historia del Agua Embotellada" un vídeo de animación realizado por Annie Leonard autora bien conocida por su anterior trabajo "Historia de las Cosas" (Story of Stuff) un excelente vídeo sobre la sociedad de consumo en…
Interesante video en el que Big explican la mejora de la eficiencia energética de un edificio para oficinas y vivienda. Os dejo con el vídeo:
Os presento este vídeo genial del artista Alexandre Orion que realiza un graffiti limpiando la suciedad pegada a una reja de una carretera. Sería de hecho el arte más ecológico que además de no consumir (a parte de los…
By SamiGrover for Treehugger - Image credit: SendAndReceive From IEA whistle-blowers to the US military warning of peak oil in a few years, there's plenty of reason to question the sustainability of our energy intensive ways. But when I wrote about the Dark Mountain Projects' rejection…
