A building designed t0 grow a coat of ‘fur’ (comprised of airborne dust) on it’s outer surfaces via static electricity. don’t sneeze: “Dusty Relief, an edifice under construction in Bangkok which is surrounded by electrically charged wire that “grows fur” by statically attracting airborne filth. He has also conceived stealth habitats, hypothetical communities hidden from regulators and critics by vast sheets of camo netting. Architects are supposed to draw up pl... Read Full Story

In the June 15th issue of the journal Science, researchers at PNNL have been able to convert glucose found in plant cellulose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a basic building block for fuel, polyesters, and other petroleum-based chemicals. The main problem in creating this building block is that it is quite expensive to do, and the process yield are quite low. Furthermore, the final HMF product is laced with impurities, making it difficult to use. from inhabitat Read Full Story

The film the Rage of Nature follows director Josh Fox on his odyssey out West, as he encounters natural gas drilling activists, advocates & victims. Then we return with him back East, as he tries to stop the oncoming tide of natural gas drilling from slamming Pennsylvania and New York. We can’t let natural gas interests hijack our transition to clean energy, while drilling continues to go unchecked Read Full Story

One Square Inch of Silence is the quietest place in the United States. One Square Inch of Silence was designated on Earth Day 2005 (April 22, 2005) to protect and manage the natural soundscape in Olympic Park’s backcountry wilderness. The logic is simple; if a loud noise, such as the passing of an aircraft, can impact many square miles, then a natural place, if maintained in a 100% noise-free condition, will also impact many square miles around it. It is predicted that protecting a single sq... Read Full Story

Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir, who make up EcoArtTech, have just posted their Turbulance commission. Its a great project that corrupts image files based on the pollution outside a national park where the flickr image was taken. “Eclipse” is a user driven, networked-art application that alters and corrupts United States national and state park images from Flickr.com based on the real-time Air Quality Index (particle pollution data) provided by the United States Environment... Read Full Story

Ted Talks has a great presentation by miru kim on her work. It’s a short 15 minute talk but offers some interesting insight into her motivations, work, and explorations About Miru Kim: Miru Kim is a fearless explorer of abandoned and underground places. Her photography underscores the vulnerable nature of the human explorer in these no-woman’s-lands.” -from ted.com Share and Enjoy: BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « “Uncompromising Wildness” BROWSE / ... Read Full Story

Jon Mooallem, from the NYtimes, wrote a fascinating article about training wooping cranes to migrate through costumes and ultralight planes. He raises some pointagnt concepts about re-introduction, particularly on the increasing dependents of human interaction for a species survival and the extent we have become involved to protect “conservation-reliant species”. ” Having disrupted natural fire cycles, we’re forced to suppress fires in some areas and set them in others. ... Read Full Story

Anything free has a little risk in it, so Urbanedibles.com has a hefty warning sign. But they’re a great resource for portland residents to find local produce that is left unused. If you catch it right, it could be fresher then those apples from new zealand… Share and Enjoy: BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « Repackaging Nature » “Uncompromising Wildness” BROWSE / IN articles project « Repackaging Nature » “Uncompromising Wildnes... Read Full Story

Great interview with phillip ross on rhizome. His current projects include a long-term effort to grow a large building out of mushrooms, and a new, ongoing salon (”Critter”) at the Studio for Urban Projects, a unique cultural center opened in 2008 by Alison Sant and Marina MacDougal. Ross describes the studio as “a collective of collectives,” with about five or six contributing programmers, all similarly interested in ecology, education, technology and other related... Read Full Story

Stunning images by mikel uribetxeberria. Share and Enjoy: BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « A Life Study of Chernobyl Through Drawings. » Repackaging Nature BROWSE / IN photos « A Life Study of Chernobyl Through Drawings. » Nude at Ted Talks: miru kim SPEAK / ADD YOUR COMMENT Comments are moderated. Read Full Story