Defining themselves as a global design practice specializing in creating environments that draw people and communities together for unforgettable experiences, Populous, (formerly sports part of HOK), has annonced that they been selected to design the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Being responsible for the main Stadium and venues overlay for [...]

Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags yearly.
Made out of low density polyethylene, they are among the products that are most commonly used by consumers due to their light weight, availability, low cost and huge variety of types.

However, apart from these advantages for use, plastic bags are utterly dangerous for the environment. Their production process [...]

Born 25 July 1936, Glenn Murcutt is an important Australian architect. He studied architecture from 1956 to 1961 at The University of New South Wales and always had an appreciation for simple, vernacular architecture. He is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale.
Murcutt’s motto is “touch the earth lightly”; his highly economical and multi-functional architecture [...]

On August 5th, the company eSolar opened the Sierra Sun Tower, the newest example solar power towers. According to the website of esolar, the Sierra facility supplies 5 MW of clean, renewable energy to the grid. As the only commercial CSP tower in the United States, supplies electricity to Southern California Edison (SCE) and [...]

The IUCN Red List Categories, given below, are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction.

Extinct: the last remaining member of the species has died, or is presumed beyond reasonable doubt to have died. Examples:  [...]

Born in Turin, Italy on June 21, 1919, Soleri is an Italian-American visionary architect and a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He is widely known with the notion he created: archology, ie. architecture in line with ecology, explained in detail in [...]

Dr. Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist who has been designing ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficient architecture for 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974, Yeang designed large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning and wrote books on ecodesign, including “The Skyscraper: Bioclimatically Considered,” “The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable, Intensive Buildings,” [...]

As we kiss good bye to summer with heavy rains in many parts of the world, I am sure that many of us started digging their wardrobes for autumn pieces. I thought Lara Miller’s Autumn 2009 collection could be inspiring for those who prefer eco-clothing.

Being a Lexus Hybrid Living Sustainable Partner, Lara Miller promotes environmentally [...]