Cleaning-up Bali, making fuel from plastic
An article by Trisha Sertori, The Jakarta Post. In Bali, where fuel is heavily subsidized (at the risk of crippling the national budget), an elderly man cooks his rice with fuel harvested from plastic. The cacophony of Denpasar’s traffic fades as you enter Pekambingan village, home of a self-taught inventor, Ida Bagus Ketut Atmaja. Shade Read on…
Consumer Goods and Deforestation: An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture and Timber Plantations
Forest Trends Report Series (September 2014) by Sam Lawson for Forest Trends, with contributions from Art Blundell, Bruce Cabarle, Naomi Basik, Michael Jenkins, and Kerstin Canby. Tropical forests continue to disappear at an alarming rate despite growing international recognition of their crucial role in mitigating climate change. Their loss generates nearly 50 percent more greenhouse Read on…
The buildings with a mind of their own
An article in BBC.com The buildings that we live and work in can waste vast amount of energy on heating and cooling. Could they control their temperature themselves with a “skin” modelled on nature? One of architecture’s great challenges is building structures that have the ability to adapt. Our buildings consume huge amounts of energy Read on…