Tag Archives: environment

Moving House By Double Bike

Currently Copenhagen seems to take over the position of world cycling capital from Amsterdam, considering the bicycle culture blog Copenhagenize and the amazing Copenhagen Wheel. Nevertheless,…

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Pachube And The Internet Of Things

Not so long ago, the Internet of Things sounded like something very abstract. The term ‘Internet of Things’ represents a world in which more and more objects and…

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Book Review: Spacecraft 2

In 2007 we fell in love with Spacecraft, a fantastic book published by Gestalten which presents inspiring “projects that meet the changing spatial needs…

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It Only Happens When It Rains

There’s nothing new about guerrilla advertising, but this is quite special and pretty pop-up as well. Amsterdam-based advertising and design office MISTERWILSON invented a guerrilla campaigning strategy depending…

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Lock Your Bike With Your iPhone

Hi fellow Flying Dutchman, good news for us here. A new wheel makes it possible to lock your bike with your iPhone. The Copenhagen Wheel is…

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Opening Supply Chains

Sourcemap is an open source project about where things come from. As you know, plenty of products consist of many, many different components coming from all kinds of…

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PIG 05049: Mapping A Pig’s Life

More news about art and animals! PIG 05049 is a project by Rotterdam-based artist Christien Meindertsma. She has spent three years on mapping one single pig, with…

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The Origin Of Our Food

UK-based designer James Reynolds recently came up with a brilliant idea to make consumers aware of the origin of their supermarket food by letting them directly…

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Naturmobil: the Horse Reinvented

Recently I stumbed upon an Iranian green transportation project called the Naturmobil. Described as “the most amazing vehicle so far made in the current millennium”, Naturmobile…

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Can New Media Save the Environment?

Last week we entered our new office located in a villa that is part of the formal Shell laboratory in Amsterdam. As we wanted to have a better…

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Social Environmentalists Versus Car Fetishists

Controlling a car with your mind… it sounds unrealistic, but just imagine, in 20 to 30 years this will be the new way of driving your car. Just…

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The Green Deal

After a decade of neoliberalism selling off public services, local governments are taking matters into own hands again? For example, Amsterdam and the other shareholders of

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Don’t Unplug While Recharging

A picture, just to show that some things turn positive in this time of economic crisis and global pollution. Walking through London last week, I stumbled upon this great…

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What Future Should Look Like

Dutch architecture office NL Architects present this series of images in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Their wonderful impressions perfectly relate to the…

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Green Toolbar Saves Energy and Money

Do your part! Greenify your PC! AOL provides a new Green Toolbar that saves the planet and your wallet, aiming to contribute to the environment by…

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