If you have friends who compost, ask them what they love most about composting and they’re sure to list a good many things about it. They’ll even happily explain the whole process to you. As someone who’s been composting for…
neoliApril 15, 2014
The recently concluded Light+Building trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany showed the world what an exciting competition there is for smart lighting. Hundreds of exhibitors, both new and long-time players in the LED lighting system industry, showcased their creations, innovatively merging…
neoliApril 9, 2014
Click here for the First Part of this article. Exactly How Green? There’s no doubt about the greening consequences of the Internet of Things. As data flows in real time, our devices can make urgent decisions just as soon,…
neoliMarch 31, 2014
If you’ve been patiently on the lookout, the Internet of Things and green building seem like a match made in heaven, beautifully made for each other. After all, what better way to turn our homes and buildings as green as…
neoliMarch 29, 2014
Four decades after Joni Mitchell wrote and sang the lines “They paved paradise. And put up a parking lot”, we still haven’t learned. So now, we’ve got shopping malls everywhere. Earth-balling explained We talked about it in the previous post,…
neoliMarch 22, 2014
Until recently, shopping malls could not aspire to be green all over. Homes and schools can be green and eco-friendly, office and hospitals too. But not malls. It’s as if greenness and malls were two mutually exclusive concepts, an…
neoliMarch 13, 2014
Last week, the free-market group Environmental Policy Alliance (EPA) released some very unsettling findings regarding LEED: that the supposedly green buildings with LEED certification in Washington D.C. actually use more energy than those buildings that aren’t LEED-certified at all. Does…
neoliMarch 8, 2014
February might have swooped us in a frenzy of love and romance (Either that or increased awareness of singlehood), but that’s no excuse to miss out on some of the interesting stories that made headlines this month. These are…
neoliFebruary 26, 2014
It used to be that fashion and sustainability were at odds with each other. Fashion was traditionally expected to be luxurious, extravagant, and spectacular: more or less what the sustainable movement was opposed to. After all, sustainability is, among other…
neoliFebruary 22, 2014
Make Way for the Fungus Building Aptly named architectural firm The Living will be “growing” a fungus-based tower on the grounds of the Museum of Modern Art Ps1 (MoMA Ps1) in New York set to be opened in June. The…
neoliFebruary 16, 2014
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