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The Climate Change Heretic

Posted in Climate Change on 03/31/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times did an article on physicist Freeman Dyson, who is often cited as one of most high-profile ‘climate change skeptics.’ Well-known for his award-winning books, and important earlier work in physics, Dyson is now being called “a pompous twit,” “a blowhard,” “a cesspool of misinformation,” “an old coot riding into the sunset” and, perhaps [...]

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iPhorest

Posted in Environment, Technology on 03/31/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Design Under Sky wrote about iPhorest, an iPhone application that enables users to plant trees virtually and contribute to The Conservation Fund. Everytime a tree is planted virtually, The Conservation Fund will plant a real tree along the Gulf Coast. The iPhorest takes you through a virtual tree planting exercise, and builds on the motion detection features [...]

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Google Earth, Satellites As Conservation Tools

Posted in Environment, Technology on 03/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Sciences’ blog, Environment 360, published a report on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support the protection of forests and strengthen biodiversity conservation programs. Google Earth and satellites are increasingly being used to find potential sites for conservation activities, support advocacy efforts and target on-the-ground action. Furthermore, the widespread availability [...]

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Les Territoire Des Sens

Posted in Exhibits, Land Art on 03/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Les Territoire Des Sens is a bilingual French-English blog by Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret, a visual artist and printmaker, who “questions the brief and complex relations between the human body and it’s immediate space, with the individual mind and it’s ever changing territory, with the memory and the matter allowing it’s existence.” Dupuis-Bourett offers photos of global landscape, topographical and [...]

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Landscape Architecture Magazine Goes Digital

Posted in Uncategorized on 03/30/2009 | 1 Comment »

ASLA announced that Landscape Architecture magazine has introduced its digital format with the April 2009 issue. Landscape Architecture will now be available through Zinio, which offers a number of architecture and design magazines, and will be searchable and search-engine-optimized, increasing the magazine’s usefulness for research and archiving. Interactive and multi-media capabilities will also be embedded in the digital [...]

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‘Connect the Parks’ on the Jersey City Waterfront

Posted in Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 03/27/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Jersey City Waterfront Parks Conservancy released a conceptual master plan for public review earlier this month. Landscape architecture firm Starr Whitehouse and nArchitects created a master plan designed for the “protection of waterfront parkland and dramatic Manhattan views via passive lawns, kid’s play elements, interaction with water and nature, combined with natural erosion protection and promotion of [...]

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High-Efficiency Greenhouses

Posted in Agriculture, Technology on 03/26/2009 | Leave a Comment »

In Kent, Thanet Earth plans to produce 15 percent of the UK’s salad vegetables using high-intensity greenhouses (some covering almost 10 hectares), and reduce imports from the Netherlands. Thanet Earth has devoted three of the seven glasshouses they have planned for tomatoes. Steel columns support a layer of ‘high-transluncency glass,’ according to Icon magazine. While the floor of [...]

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Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses Competition

Posted in Opportunities on 03/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »

EDAW, a leading landscape architecture firm, has annouced the Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses competition, which is open to individual students or teams of up to four undergraduate and graduate students at all levels from all countries in the design and planning fields – including landscape architecture, urban design, architecture, landscape urbanism, economics, planning, geography, engineering, environmental studies [...]

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Darwin’s Endless Forms

Posted in Environment, Exhibits on 03/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times wrote about a new exhibit at the Yale Gallery of British Art, “Darwin’s Endless Forms,” which demonstrates the impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the visual arts. Evolution has long been a source for artistic inspiration. “French Impressionism is shown to have been under the influence. (Degas was fascinated by Darwin’s [...]

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Sao Paulo Eco-Park

Posted in Public Spaces on 03/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Inhabitat wrote about a new eco-park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which was once a contaminated brownfield site. The 13,000 square-foot site for the eco-park was previously used for a garbage incinerator, so the firms involved, Davis Brody Bond Aedas and Levisky Arquitetos, built the deck three feet above ground to avoid soil excavation. According to Inhabitat, Victor [...]

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