WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION – A HOUSE IN LUANDA
 The International Competition A HOUSE IN LUANDA: PATIO AND PAVILION, promoted by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale together with Luanda Triennale, with the goal of selecting …
16 Sep
Biofuels Breakthrough: Making Fuel from Air with Engineered Microbes
Biofuels Breakthrough: Making Fuel from Air with Engineered Microbes
In what could be a major breakthrough, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has directly produced fuel from the plentiful carbon dioxide in the air around …
07 Sep
SUSTAINABLE SLUM UPGRADING IN PUNE, INDIA
SUSTAINABLE SLUM UPGRADING IN PUNE, INDIA
Research is currently being conducted at the Centre for Sustainable Development Cambridge University, to investigate the sustainability of slum upgrading approaches through stakeholder perception. Case …
06 Sep
Will Shrinking Our Wealth Shrink Our Footprint?
Will Shrinking Our Wealth Shrink Our Footprint?
While on a recent trip to Mumbai, I found myself stuck in a traffic jam. Nothing unusual about the traffic jam, but unusual was to …
02 Sep
Regreening Africa by Mark Hertsgaard
Regreening Africa by Mark Hertsgaard
The sun is setting on another scorching hot day in the western African nation of Burkina Faso. But here on the farm of Yacouba Sawadogo, …
01 Aug
Insects could be the key to meeting food needs of growing global population
Insects could be the key to meeting food needs of growing global population
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation is taking seriously the farming of creepy-crawlies as nutritious food. Saving the planet one plateful at a time does not …
26 Jul
Buried Under a Package
Buried Under a Package
Indonesia has one of the most visited beach sites in the world. An archipelago of over 10,000 islands, it perhaps has the longest coastline in …
22 Jul
Swarm Intelligence in Bioluminescent Micro-Organisms Populations
Swarm Intelligence in Bioluminescent Micro-Organisms Populations
There are a great number of bioluminescent micro-organisms that emit light for different purposes in nature. They form populations that show varied light emission features …
21 Jul
Garbage Recycling In Dharavi
Garbage Recycling In Dharavi
In India unemployed people earn a living by recycling trash saving the cities from becoming a toxic waste dump. Â In Dharavi, unemployed workers, mainly children …
14 Jul
No Excuses Slum Upgrading
No Excuses Slum Upgrading
In fast-urbanizing planet, Sao Paulo develops model toolkit to improve housing for poor, dispossessed. Seventh largest among the world’s metropolises and the linchpin of Brazil’s booming …