Posts Tagged "environment"

The End of Recreational Reading.

Despite the decision to cut off my daily supply of  recreational reading, I have been enjoying quite a few interesting things these (Porfolio) days. They include:
Neozoon’s Furry Friends series:

Simon Hejden’s trees:

Whitelines Notebooks (they had me at “Swedish” and “innovation”):

Sunday brunch served with digital cameras:

Crowdsourcing my research from various West-end cafes:

Jamming with the Jam Berries:

and veganism.
Waking [...]


The supergrid of my dreams…

“…would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany’s vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway’s fjords: Europe’s first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as [...]


Smart Art.

While the world watched Copenhagen turn into Hopenhagen and then, much to our dismay, into Brokenhagen, there was a lot of interesting art adorning the streets of the snowy capital which I forgot to blog about.
Things like the Worlds exhibit and the melancholic 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear in Kongens Nytorv:

Institutional pleas of [...]


Still thinking about Cph.

Delegates at COP15. From here.

Greenpeace ads in Copenhagen airport. From here.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words.
And because we’re all eco-warriors now, after world leaders failed us.


Design Delight.

I have always been a fan of GOOD magazine’s ‘transparency’ section. While the magazine is at time superficial and fluffy, it does a good job at promoting important issues in the ‘progressive mainstream’ and its editors understand that elegant design can go a long way. The graph above is a visual representation of the sources [...]


Moms against climate change.

From here.
Psst- moms, excellent music choice, by the way!


Architectural metaphors.

Today was a good day. Meditative and domestic at first, then windy and rainy to the point that the wind broke my umbrella in two and blew the top part away. Despite the rain, I must say it was truly rewarding to spend the first half of the day reading a considerable amount of [...]


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