Right now, a megacity is emerging in China. The big goal is to connect the city of Beijing, the port city of Tianjin, and the province of Hebei into one huge megalopolis the size of Kansas. If plans push through,…
neoliJuly 24, 2015
If buildings tell a lot about a country’s people, culture, and their priorities, then Dubai’s impressive and ever-changing skyline has a lot of stories to tell. From sky-piercing towers to curiously-shaped man-made islands, Dubai’s many construction projects are known for…
neoliJuly 7, 2015
Google Repurposes a Coal Plant As coal plants shut down in many parts of the world, Google has its eye on a particular site, the Widows Creek coal power plant in Jackson County in Alabama. The $600 million project hopes…
neoliJune 30, 2015
Our buildings are the exact antithesis of the Great Outdoors. Buildings—especially the modern skyscraper with its complex of offices, commercial spaces, residential areas—have become beautiful enclosures. Whereas in the past our hunter-gatherer ancestors were always on the go, prowling and…
neoliJune 29, 2015
Not all furniture are created equal. Your local artisan might have honest-to-goodness intentions when crafting a dining chair, but unfortunately that’s not the scenario in big-time factories that churn out products by the thousands each day. Mass production, in its…
neoliJune 23, 2015
The Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has recently launched its newly adopted SITES rating system for sustainable landscaping. Generally regarded as the LEED equivalent for landscapes, the Sustainable Sites Initiative (or SITES) was developed in the fall of 2009 as…
neoliJune 15, 2015
Back in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a speech regarding water scarcity and conservation for an event called the International Conference on Water for Peace, attended by UN delegates from all over the world. Coincidentally, a week earlier, President…
neoliJune 10, 2015
Here are the stories that defined the month of May: from melting ice shelves and global levels of CO2, to a 19th-century-inspired solar energy system to the insane amount of water a small piece of steak requires for it to reach…
neoliMay 31, 2015
We live in the Age of Metrics where every bit of information and experience can now be quantified and digitized: steps we take each day, calories burned, hours slept, the number of people who just unfollowed you on Twitter, and…
neoliMay 24, 2015
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