Lecture in Sao Paulo due to the event “Learning from Sampa“. 8th December 2008 / 17.00/ Instituto Cervantes.
More information: www.saopaulo.cervantes.es.
⚐ EN
December 7, 2008
December 2, 2008
Here Comes the Sun
Category: ⚐ EN+sustainability
Silicon Valley has changed the world once. Now, thanks to a wave of investment and innovation in solar power, it’s on to the next revolution: A massive disruption of the U.S. electricity market.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) — There’s a missile-bunker vibe you get when walking into Solaicx, a Silicon Valley startup that manufactures the silicon wafers that are the building blocks of solar panels. continue reading
December 1, 2008
The RETScreen Clean Energy Project Analysis Software is a unique decision support tool developed with the contribution of numerous experts from government, industry, and academia.
The software, provided free-of-charge, can be used worldwide to evaluate the energy production and savings, costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for various types of Renewable-energy and Energy-efficient Technologies (RETs). continue reading
November 25, 2008
fisheye sessions #8
Category: ⚐ EN+city+cultura abierta+urbanism
Here we go with “fisheye sessions” issue #8…
Puerta del Sol [Madrid] -top view-
November 21, 2008
the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the community…
November 18, 2008
Puma City by Lot-Ek
Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+creativity
Photos © Danny Bright, text © Lot-Ek
“Twenty-four shipping containers are retrofitted and transformed into PUMA CITY, a transportable retail and event building that is traveling around the world along with the 70-foot long Puma sailing boat – il Mostro – during the one-year long 2008 Volvo Ocean Race, just started in Alicante, Spain in early October.
The building is fully dismountable and travels on a cargo ship along with the sail boats; it will be assembled and disassembled a number of times once it reaches the different international harbors. continue reading
November 6, 2008
The Vertical Farm
Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+sustainability
The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. continue reading
October 31, 2008
Urban Sketchers is a community of artists around the world who draw the people and places of the cities where they live and travel to. This blog is an extension to the Flickr Urban Sketchers group started in November of 2007 by Seattle journalist and illustrator Gabi Campanario.