Green your Surfboard

Make envirosearch.org your homepage and like them on Facebook and they'll plant 5 trees! The ad revenues from using the web search engine (powered by Microsoft's Bing) also go towards sustainable non-profits. The search engine is owned and operated by the Carbonfund.org Foundation.

Mies Van der Rohe Farnsworth House

Really nice integration of modernist living space with natural views.

Green Collar Economy

This is a really good read that highlights issues of environmentalism and human rights being systemically related and the need to address both issues for a sustainable solution.

Living Space inside the home

Having green plants in every room not only increases the visual appeal of the space, but also has a huge impact on the air quality and health of the occupants. Growing herbs and lettuce in the kitchen can lead to fresher sources of spices and salads and large plants in living rooms can absorb VOCs and convert CO2 to O2. These photos are of a product called WollyPocket, a recycled material that is breathable and water resistant to prevent leakage. Their website: http://www.woollypocket.com/

LG Smart Appliances

The house of the future will intelligently monitor its energy usage to optimize for costs and also raise awareness about household consumption and habits. LG is coming out with a wide range of products sharing a technology for energy management with a convenient motion control device, called the magic remote. It will be interesting to see if other manufacturers of white goods follow.

Make your own drinking water!

With a carbon filter and even reverse osmosis easily installable in homes it doesn't make any sense to purchase bottles water and proliferate the production of plastic bottles and energy expended moving he water.

PAHS and Eco Architect Feliciano Garcia Fernandez

Passive Annual Heat Storage is essentially taking the excess heat from summer to heat the house during winter, maintaining an average year round temperature that is both comfortable and totally solar powered. It should be the goal of every architect. Here is an architect from Spain named Feliciano Garcia Fernandez is doing invaluable research on the subject in Grenada. See a video on him here: Eco Architect in Spain

More to come on PAHS, an extremely interesting and complex subject.