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The Challenge for Skyscrapers, Our Cities, and Urban Planning

Moshe Safdie in his speech at the World Architecture Festival reflected on the need for urban planning to create better cities, not just pretty skyscrapers. The recently concluded World Architecture Festival 2014 emblazoned a theme that’s very relevant for…

neoli5 October 2014

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Getting It Right: Indoor Playgrounds in Malls

A mall in British Columbia, Canada recently took flak for its newly-renovated playground for kids. The Guildford Town Centre, located in Surrey, B.C., reportedly spent $280 million on the renovation, scrapping the existing playground equipment—ladders, slides, swings, and all—and retrofitting…

neoli1 October 2014

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Four Takeaways We Can All Learn from Beijing Design Week

There’s no substitute for good design, so goes the maxim. That’s why Beijing Design Week (BJDW) is all set this Friday, September 26 and will last until October 3. For a full week and beyond, design will saturate the…

neoli25 September 2014

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What You Can Do After the Climate Change March in New York

The largest climate change march in history happens this Sunday, September 21 in New York, a prelude to the UN Climate Summit 2014 which is set two days later. While world leaders convene and discuss amongst themselves, people from all…

neoli20 September 2014

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Green Data Centers in LEED v4

This week the Grainger Lake Forest Data Center in Illinois achieved Gold certification in LEED v4 BD+C (Building Design + Construction). It’s the first ever facility to do so, particularly under the new Data Center sector of LEED v4 launched…

neoli11 September 2014

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Streamlined Review Process for LEED Projects & Animal-Friendly Organs-on-a-Chip

In today's post, we feature the LEED Proven Provider for a more streamlined review process of LEED projects, and also report on the organs-on-a-chip development for drug testing sans the cruelty to animals. * * * A More Streamlined Review…

neoli5 September 2014

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August Green News Roundup: From New Use for Cigarette Butts to Melting Iceberg as a Temporary Home

We look back at our favorite green news the whole month of August—from new life for cigarette butts to one man's attempt to make an iceberg his melting, fleeting home. 1| In the Name of Climate Change, One Man…

neoli31 August 2014

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Of War and War-Torn Buildings

“Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.” -Zadie Smith, On Beauty My grandma, aged 93, remarked the other day, while we were watching a news story on the Gaza conflict, about how all those…

neoli25 August 2014

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Shanghai Gets a Wake-Up Call via Environmental Art, Hopefully

This August, a decrepit ark sits on the floor of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA), bearing a menagerie of taxidermied animals, sickly, frozen on the spot, and absolutely going nowhere. Noah's Ark redux. Or more harshly, inspired by the…

neoli16 August 2014

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Fitting In Embedded Energy in Our Consumerist Society

We live in a world of overconsumption; it’s no secret. A sweet combination of technological progress and manipulation by media has enabled us to become rabid consumers. We’re buying more stuff than ever, out of a constant need to replace,…

neoli12 August 2014