Archive for January, 2008
January 22, 2008
“The architect behind New York’s Freedom Tower - built on the former site of the World Trade Centre - has announced that it is to construct what promises to be the world’s greenest office building,” the Telegraph reports.
Located in Gennevilliers, an outlying district of Paris, the proposed building titled “Energy Plus” will be the first [...]

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Tianlang trainers have long been the footwear of choice for Chinese farm, mine, construction and factory workers.
I’m digging their simple aesthetic: the only visible logo signifies work and labor, not brand identity. Made with tough canvas and a twice vulcanized outsole, they’ll definitely put the life span of your ergonomically designed limited-edition Nike’s to the [...]

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January 16, 2008
According to the Telegraph, “A businessman in the desert Arab Emirate of Dubai has launched plans to faithfully reconstruct the French city of Lyon, right down to its cafés, cinemas and schools.” The 500 million euro megalopolis dubbed Lyons-Dubai will even “house a hotel school run by the institute of feted Lyon chef Paul Bocuse [...]

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Wars were once fought with spiked clubs, swords, flails and bare fists. It’s ancient technology when compared with todays assault rifles, IED’s (improvised explosive devices), missiles, artillery and droids.
Perhaps one day ground-level battles will no longer claim the lives of so many foot soldiers. Instead, remote controlled SWORDS (miniature ground robots reminiscent of a child’s [...]

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January 15, 2008
For global warming to be accepted as both a serious issue and reality, it took the Arctic and Antartic icecaps to start melting at a rapid rate, glacial retraction, extreme weather patterns, rapid spreading of tropical disease, and unexplainable shifts in agriculture.
Sadly, despite millions in corporate investment for green technologies, six of the world’s largest [...]

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