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To Light or Not To Light, That is the Question While Singapore celebrates (I guess) by lighting up the city, Australia goes ahead and does s...

Smart Architect Builds Dumb Building It is not a sophisticated building; it is a throwback. It is the first office building in 50 years to ...

Recycled Wine Bottle Building Wins Energy Grant An organic winery in Western Australia recently became the recipient of a $20,555 AUD grant ...

Seoul—A New City Paradigm The media criticized. The tenants protested. The whole city was talking about the government’s decision to recover...

Scientists Urge Global Action on Clean Energy A scientific panel convened at the request of the United Nations called recently for drastic r...

Open Architecture Network Goes Live Architects are used to selling ideas, often locally. Sharing ideas? To use an old phrase, "Does Mac...

Ecorenovation This building is an example of sustainability and eco-design. It is a project led in a French town, to make a E-generation bui...

Roy Prince: Greenhouse This one-bedroom and garage/workshop or studio house has been designed by Roy Prince architect. The principle is to h...

Playpump A good example of association between design and environment: lots of African countries face the problem of water supply. Most of t...

D Day: Solar Cooker D Day was an exhibition of the contemporary art centre Beaubourg in Paris, released from 29/06/2005 to 17/10/2005. One o...

Anthill Office This commercial and offices building was designed following the structure of termite mounds (an example of biomimicry). It is...

Saving a rare feline One of the world’s rarest wildcats tests Japan’s resolve to save the environment. HANS GREIMEL reports. A cat so rare, ...

Indonesian Forest Fires Threaten Wildlife and Environment Conservationists in Indonesia have warned that fires set to clear land have killed...

Insects indicators of a changing environment It's important to know our neighbours. And if 80 per cent of all animals are insects, then ...

Green Stewards Southwest congregations taking a stand on the environment A new green streak is sprouting from the pews of some Southwest con...

Africa The Most Vulnerable To Climate Change ...but the rest of the world is not far off The world is facing its greatest man-made threat ev...

Greenhouse gases reach record high Greenhouse gas levels reached record highs in 2005 and will continue to build in the atmosphere in the ab...

Reefs at Risk According to scientists, more than half of the world’s coral reefs are at risk of vanishing in the next 25 years. Rising tempe...

Birds face extinction, says WWF Nearly three-quarters of all bird species in north-east Australia and more than a third in Europe could beco...

African nomads face extinction due to climate change Kenya's herdsmen are facing extinction as global warming destroys their lands. They...

Rare species on fast track to extinction When the railway opened, critics warned that it would hasten the cultural destruction of Tibet by m...

Treasured Trash: Tokyo Designer’s Week 2006 This year’s Tokyo Design Week DesignTide, which is held November 1-5, claims its main theme as ...

Hybrid Living: Selling Green Lifestyle to the Lexus Crowd If you want to see how to make "eco-design-lifestyle" sexy and aspiratio...

Technology Course One aspect that makes this photo eye-catching is the lovely layout and plant diversity -- much more appealing than the usu...