Filmed during the inaugural year during London Design Festival 2008, and featuring the voices of co-founders Sophie Thomas, Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick, and the UK Design Council’s Chief Executive David Kester, here’s a short film about Greengaged – the sustainable design hub. 

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Currently, more than half the world’s population lives in cities. And the complex collection of systems that make up a city’s infrastructure have evolved, creating new and efficient ways to sustain and support a significant concentration of people. But inside all cities are problem areas that can be optimized and made smarter—improving the function of the metropolis and the lives of its citizens.

These pieces spotlight eight cities around the world that benefited by the introduction of…

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A public-art experiment is taking London’s art scene by storm. The project? Giving 2,400 people each an hour to do whatever they like in the city’s most bustling square.

Twenty-three feet above London’s Trafalgar Square, a girl with long blonde hair stands on a platform, dressed as a mermaid. It’s 4:30 a.m. on a chilly Tuesday, and the square is still mostly empty aside from a few stragglers. The mermaid holds up a series of cardboard…

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We’ve been hearing about the potential of “personal rapid transit” systems for a while now. PRT, as it’s called, is usually envisioned as a network of small, one- or two-person automated pods that deliver passengers from a pickup spot to a destination of their choice without stops, are centrally coordinated, and run on a dedicated tracks or streets. Think a scaled-down version of that system from Minority Report.

One variation of “personal rapid transit” is already…

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Remember the rocks that absorb CO2? Well, today the Guardian reports that British engineering firm Novacem has developed a new cement that does the same—and produces far less CO2 in production than traditional cement. If this technology can find scalability it would be a truly huge innovation, as cement..
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Filmed during the inaugural year during London Design Festival 2008, and featuring the voices of co-founders Sophie Thomas, Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick, and the UK Design Council’s Chief Executive David Kester, here’s a short film about Greengaged – the sustainable design hub. 

…
Read & Discuss

Currently, more than half the world’s population lives in cities. And the complex collection of systems that make up a city’s infrastructure have evolved, creating new and efficient ways to sustain and support a significant concentration of people. But inside all cities are problem areas that can be optimized and made smarter—improving the function of the metropolis and the lives of its citizens.

These pieces spotlight eight cities around the world that benefited by the introduction of…

Read & Discuss

We’ve been hearing about the potential of “personal rapid transit” systems for a while now. PRT, as it’s called, is usually envisioned as a network of small, one- or two-person automated pods that deliver passengers from a pickup spot to a destination of their choice without stops, are centrally coordinated, and run on a dedicated tracks or streets. Think a scaled-down version of that system from Minority Report.

One variation of “personal rapid transit” is already…

Read & Discuss

Remember the rocks that absorb CO2? Well, today the Guardian reports that British engineering firm Novacem has developed a new cement that does the same—and produces far less CO2 in production than traditional cement. If this technology can find scalability it would be a truly huge innovation, as cement..
Read & Discuss

A public-art experiment is taking London’s art scene by storm. The project? Giving 2,400 people each an hour to do whatever they like in the city’s most bustling square.

Twenty-three feet above London’s Trafalgar Square, a girl with long blonde hair stands on a platform, dressed as a mermaid. It’s 4:30 a.m. on a chilly Tuesday, and the square is still mostly empty aside from a few stragglers. The mermaid holds up a series of cardboard…

Read & Discuss