Posted by at Mar 23rd, 2009 in Green Design
GUANGZHOU, CHINA—Mayland Seaside Hotel, a five-star hotel project to be situated along the Zhujiang River, will feature an architecture style focused on sensibility to social responsiveness, energy use, urbanism and ecological awareness. The hotel is currently in the deisgn phase and is due to be completed in 2012-2013, according to Narendra Patel, Patel Architecture, Rancho [...]
Posted by at Mar 16th, 2009 in Climate Change
Filed under: Celebrities , Movies, TV and Books , Climate Change In case you had missed it, back in 2006, Tom Brokaw entered the global warming discussion with his own two-hour, Emmy-award winning, ode to climate change, appropriately titled Global Warming: What You Need to Know [...]
Posted by at Dec 24th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Activism , Plants and Wildlife If anyone can make PETA seem reasonable, it’s Tim Gunn, of Project Runway, creator of sanity in the sea of crazy that is the fashion industry. Tim is the narrator of a new ( horrifying — [...]
Posted by Editor at Nov 18th, 2008 in Activism, Climate Change, RSS Feeds
Filed under: Food , Health , Polit-eco James E. McWilliams addresses the still-present danger posed by melamine in a NY Times Op-Ed this week. Besides the baby formula tragedy , China’s food supply has been found to have problems with melamine swimming in milk, eggs , chicken feed and wheat gluten. However, China is not [...]
Posted by at Nov 14th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: News , Climate Change Japan is the world’s 5th largest CO2 producer, after the U.S., China and the European Union who are tied for second place, Russia…
Posted by at Aug 18th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: News , Activism Hey China, don’t think you’re getting anything past Greenpeace. They’re watching and judging your Olympic efforts according to their strict…
Posted by at Jul 15th, 2008 in Green Trends
March 28, 2008, saw the launch of China’s Ministry of environmental Protection (MEP). As stated in its mission, this new cabinet-level ministry will take responsibility for China’s…
Posted by at Jul 11th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: News , Polit-eco , Climate Change Following the G8 summit this week and the feel-good declaration that member nations will, or…
Posted by at Jul 8th, 2008 in Green Design
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF.—environmentally-conscious furniture design company Maria Yee, Inc. marked its first shipment of select products made with 100 percent Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified hardwood last month. The FSC is…
Posted by Editor at Jun 10th, 2008 in Green Trends
Ecological resources have factored into many national conflicts–either through competition for scarce resources or greed to exploit plentiful ones. But some scholars see another role for the environment: fostering peace. Resources managed jointly…
