from NYTimes article
” WAKING up in a strange hotel can be disorienting. Now imagine staying down the hall from 60 cows, 2 goats and a baby rabbit. Oh, and you’re sleeping on a pile of hay.
Leave it to the Germans to combine livestock with lodging. In the last decade, hundreds of farms throughout Germany have [...]
The Owl Foundation is a non-profit conservation organization that operates a centre for both the rehabilitation to release status of Canadian Owl species, and the [...]
The IWNCC is an incredible place. They have between a 70%-80% success rate with their seal rehab program. They also have several aviaries. The structures on the site are all built specifically with the particular animal’s rehabilitation needs in mind. Check out the site here! I got to visit the place two years ago when [...]
It will be interesting to see if this goes ahead.
Check it out here and here.
Slow Food Nation’s victory garden in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Courtesy of Scott Chernis/Scott Chernis Photography)
This is a great post from Allison Arieff’s NYTimes blog on design.
an excerpt:
“Edible landscape” seems to be going head to head with “staycation” as the most popular catch phrase of Summer 2008. Lawns may not be disappearing before [...]
“The whole proposal for the eco-boulevard in Vallecas can be defined as an urban recycling operation consisting of the following actions: insertion of an air tree-social dynamizer over an existing urbanization area, densification of existing alignment trees and reduction and asymmetric arrangement of wheeled traffic circulation. Superficial interventions reconfiguring the existing urbanization (perforations, fillings, paint, [...]
I was listening to the Quirks and Quarks podcast on CBC today, there is a great section on using algae as a bio-fule if you want to check it out go HERE> Go to the October 4th link.
Also of interest is this article that explains some of the science and gives great references for further [...]
Here is a great article about living machines. I found the images to be very useful and easy to understand.
If anyone needs resources on CHP, I have some great PDFs. They are big but I can email them to you.
Hundreds of pigeon towers or dovecotes, dating largely to the Safavid reign, dot the fields in the vicinity of Isfahan. Distinct examples of secular architecture in Iran, these structures played an important role, much alike the subterranean canal system (qanats), in sustaining the hinterland that made possible an urban center at Isfahan. The turrets built [...]
“The Darwin Centre Phase Two is designed around an iconic eight-storey “Cocoon”, encased within a glass atrium.
The temperature-controlled Cocoon will house 20 million of the museum’s 34 million plant and insect specimens, and laboratories for up to 200 researchers.
Visitors will watch these scientists in action cataloguing rare specimens, when the centre opens in September 2009. [...]