«ne of the keys to birthing innovation is thinking outside the box, and Rael San Fratello Architects certainly went way beyond that with their somewhat frightening migrating floating gardens concept. The octopus-like greenery would float through the skies suspended by vines from large remotely controlled airships migrating from city to city and cleaning the air. While the idea might look crazy, the designers explain, “As the Cartesian axes have all been heavily considered as sites for green (horizontal parks, vertical building walls and even rooftops), the logical next location lies in non-Cartesian space—floating in the air.”»

Source: inhabitat.com

Green is Toxic
«A fascinating article recently in The New York Times points out the cruel fact that most forms of the color green are manufactured in ways that are ecologically irresponsible, and in some cases severely damaging to the

Coming soon: The Great Blob of Alaska
A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called “the blob.” It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi

My computer is Green
Si des progrès ont été remarqués dans la consommation électrique avec l’électroménager, les ampoules basse consommation, l’isolation, … il n’en va pas de même pour l’informatique où l’on constate que des produits comme les cartes graphiques continuent, d’une génération

une lumière rayonnante
Selon les sites Lampe de luminothérapie, Univers nature et Enviro 2b, les ampoules électriques basse consommation (type fluo compact) émettraient d’importants rayonnements radioélectriques, largement supérieurs aux recommandations européennes. Toutefois, point de panique –tiennent à rappeler les 3 sites– car ces

la minute solaire
A l’heure où bon nombre d’écolos (ainsi que les organisateurs des jeux olympiques) dénoncent la Chine comme un pays surpollué, l’empire du milieu nous affirme une fois de plus son goût prononcé du contraste avec cette cité presque entierement

My Bike Keeps Me Juiced Up
«The I-Green is a small bike peripheral that turns kinetic energy into electrical to charge nearly any portable device. » Source: www.yankodesign.com Share a2a_config.linkname="Octopus-Like Migrating Floating Gardens are Not Aliens"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://www.digitalsook.net/20100810/octopus-like-migrating-floating-gardens-are-not-aliens"; a2a.init("page");

Hundimiento Zona 2
«a massive, spontaneous sinkhole (”hundimiento”) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha. Not Photoshop, sadly: these happen from time to time during major storms in part

The Shipping Container Skyscraper
«In the center of Stuttgart, Germany, lies an odd roundabout called Oesterreichischer Platz. Speeding traffic circles around it, and for the last 40 years no one has found much use for it, except as a parking lot.

Freeeze !
Prochainement dans ta gare ? « On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five

Toilet paper wipes out 27,000 trees a day
«Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day and roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper, according to the latest issue of World Watch magazine.» Source: