The Greenest Buildings in The World. If you like this story feel free to share... 1.Bank of America, New York This is probably the greenest building in the world today. The 54 storey building is constructed to use the natural daylight as much as possible, but the sun is also wisely used for collecting solar energy. The rainwater is reused; the raw materials used for construction are made from renewable and recycled sources from New York area. This skyscraper is real role model for future green architecture practice. 2.Crystal Island, Moscow The Crystal Island is experiment about sustainable areas of the Russian government, designed to house over 30,000 people in only one building. 3.CH2, Melbourne Located in one of the world’s greenest countries, CH2 sustainability potential has been recognized by United Nations as well, because of sewage recycling, wind turbines, thermal mass cooling, photovoltaic cells etc. 4.Cor, Miami 5.BMW Welt, Munich BMW has not gone green with their cars yet, but their building in Munich gives hope.
London's Unpackaged Grocery Shop: No Packaging Whatsoever - Lifestyle. I can't fathom a better way to reduce waste created by plastic bags and other packaging than by eschewing the stuff altogether, which is precisely what London's Unpackaged grocery shop does. WeHeart has more: Beginning life as a market stall in 2006, Unpackaged is a unique and brilliant concept that is so simple it hurts, especially considering the sheer amount of packaging waste that is ridiculously filling our planet's landfill sites. Within the beautifully designed shop, organic whole foods, dried fruit, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices, even refillable oils, vinegars and wines are all available to place straight into your own containers, that you will have brought along with you … if you haven't then reusable bags are available.
So simple it hurts. Exactly. Climate Change. I intend to come back to this strip and rewrite some of the first half, in order to make the science clearer. I'm sure there will be a few spelling errors and suchlike. Feel free to point them out, but keep in mind that I've been staring at many of these pages for weeks, to the point where even the word 'and' looks funny to me. I shall be adding on references to this strip over the coming few days. Thanks to Albert the Knowledge Penguin for his help. Note: added Jan 2012. A few references. Superb New Yorker piece about the Koch Brothers and their involvement with the far right. That Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, which I mention in the strip, on the numbers of climate researchers who believe that science points to the truth of man made climate change, compared to those researchers who don't.
Excellent book that does what it says on the tin. NASA's climate change evidence page. Scott Mandia's research into the media's deplorable Climategate coverage.