February 2012
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December 2011
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READ THE BEST MONEY CAN'T BUY
Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which science and technology are applied with human and environmental concern to secure, protect, and encourage a more humane world for all people. This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles of boom and recession, famine, poverty, a declining environment, and territorial conflicts where peace is merely the interval...
July 2011
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“Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via ideasandopinions)
June 2011
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Nanotechnology pushes battery life to eternity
(PhysOrg.com) — A simple tap from your finger may be enough to charge your portable device thanks to a discovery made at RMIT University and Australian National University.
In a crucial step towards the development of self-powering portable electronics, researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have for the first time characterised the ability of piezoelectric thin films to turn...
April 2011
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February 2011
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Dragonfly concept aims for ecological...
The latest concept design from Vincent Callebaut Architects – the Dragonfly – has been designed with the intention of easing the ever-increasing need for ecological and environmental self-sufficiency in the urban cityscape. The proposed development, designed around the Southern bank of Roosevelt Island in New York, follows a vertical farm design which, it is hoped, would cultivate food,...
Arcology
Mammoth Pyramid Megacity for New Orleans
An Arcology is essentially a mega city that packs a ginormous population into one hyperstructure.
Now, a real-life group of ambitious designers has taken their looming pyramidal arcology and placed it smack dab on the Mississippi River as a proposal for rebuilding New Orleans. This 30 million square foot beast-building with an array of green features is...
When Buildings Think With Their Surroundings
Karl Chu knows he is a man way ahead of his time. It’s a time when, he posits, humans have transcended their bodies to exist on multiple planes, contribute to a global brain, and write apps with their genomes.
But it’s the implications for architecture that are really exciting, says Chu. The founder of the innovative architectural firm metaxy, he imagines “genetic architects” creating buildings...
January 2011
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Japan's low-cost space program pushes the limits
Despite its shoestring budget, Japan’s space programme has boldly reached for the stars, pioneering solar-powered galactic travel, exploring a distant asteroid and planning a robot base on the Moon…
Full article @ Physorg.com
December 2010
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September 2010
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The Sustainable City
Today, the way ecology is being incorporated into architecture has evolved considerably.
Sustainable architecture, or green architecture, aims to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by enhancing efficiency and moderating the use of materials, energy, and space.
Spewing carbon dioxide, generating masses of waste, and consuming alarming quantities...
ECOTOPIA
Architect Mitchell Joachim points out, frequently and without prompting, that his futuristic proposals are always based on existing technologies. No wonder he feels the need to say it. Consider some of his ideas: jetpacks tethered together in swarms, houses grown from living trees, low-altitude blimps prowling New York City with chairs hanging below them for pedestrians to hop on and off (24/7...
Archinode Studio
Mitchell Joachim, [jo-ak-um] - is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a Co-Founder at Terreform ONE and Terrefuge. He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and previously was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto. ...
Amazing Skyscraper Farm for Vancouver
The City of Vancouver has ambitious plans to become the most sustainable city in the world. This spring they held the FormShift Vancouver Competition to develop and improve the city’s livability through greener, denser developments. The Harvest Green Tower received an honorable mention in the Primary category for a mixed use primary (arterial) site along a major Vancouver street that includes a...
VERTICAL FARMING
Half of the world’s population may face serious food shortages by 2100 reports the recent study “Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat” issued by Stanford University’s Program on Food Security and the Environment. The study found that “rapidly warming climates may alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without...
Ecocity Builders
Founded in 1992, Ecocity Builders is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reshaping cities for the long-term health of human and natural systems.
http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/
August 2010
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Inexpensive Highly Efficient Solar Cells Possible
ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2010) — Thanks to two technologies developed by Professor Benoît Marsan and his team at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Chemistry Department, the scientific and commercial future of solar cells could be totally transformed. Professor Marsan has come up with solutions for two problems that, for the last twenty years, have been hampering the development of...
Future Space Place
There seems to be a push back into a space, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say a pull towards a Type One Civilization (e.g. The Venus Project).
In 2006 Stephen Hawking stated the survival of the human species depends on its ability to colonize planets. “Once we spread out into space and establish colonies, our future should be safe.”
Last month Virgin Galactic (from the same mogul that...
WatchSocial Pathology | The Zeitgeist Movement | NYC 2010 ZDAY
-Lecture by Peter Joseph
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How will the economy work in 01?
“A resource-based economy is a society without money with the earth’s resources distributed equally without any form of exchange, barter or payment. It is not a new communistic approach. Neither is it socialism or capitalism. It’s beyond communism, socialism, feudalism, fascism, capitalism or any other ‘ism’. It’s beyond any social system that has ever existed on this planet, at least in our...
“The generation now alive and our grandchildren are the most important...”
– Michio Kaku
http://www.trilulilu.ro/alonewolf/045d8d3531eb7b