The Green River

In response to Valerio's interesting post, "Nuovo Rosso", I can't resist but bounce from a red fountain to a green river...

In 2000 Olafur Eliasson turned a river in the city of Stockholm luminous green using pigment developed by marine biologists for measuring the turbulence in water.

He said his aim was to "challenge the viewer's knowledge of the natural landscape"...

Two years ago, the Japanese government — essentially with the stroke of a pen — instituted a new policy that has so far trimmed more than two million tons of greenhouse gases from the country's growing emissions.

The feat is particularly impressive because it required overturning a decades-old tradition.

When Yuriko Koike was Japan's environment minister, one of her jobs was to figure out how to deal with climate change. So she hit on what — in Japan — was a radical idea: Get men to stop wearing suits. That way, office buildings could ease up on the air conditioning.

links:
http://www.grist.org/news/daily/2005/06/01/5/
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/vote/264

And to wrap-up, the air conditioned tie....

Mr Wind

And on a lighter note....

A surprising idea to solve climate change

And yet another engaging TED talk about the environment, although I've got my reservations about some of what's proposed...discuss

Krzysztof Wodiczko

The Homeless Projection: A Proposal for the City of New York, 1986

Posted by Annabel Fraser through Filip

Why can't we grow energy?

Hello everyone, this is my first post on the blog. Take a minute to watch this inspiring video, from one the TED conferences, about alternative ways of producing energy.

Marjetica Potrč

Marjetica's Hybrid House juxtaposes structures from the temporary architecture of Caracas, the West Bank, and West Palm Beach, Florida, and shows how they negotiate space among themselves. Each of the community-based structures formulates its own language, which, in all three cases, has much in common with archetypal (and not modernist) architecture. Emphasis is placed on private space, security, and energy and communication infrastructures.'
from: http://www.potrc.org/project1.htm

I looked at Marjetica's work because she is interested in educating people how to build more sustainable enviroments for themselves, she stays within communities, teaches and designs objects that become a part of every day life. Unfortunately not only the third world countries need this re-thinking strategies...