Cycle stand locator
August 30th, 2010
It has been a month since I have started cycling on the London roads, and I am never able to find a cycle stand when I need one! This map by Camden Cycling Campaign is a brilliant initiative which gives the location and number of cycle stands (not the TFL cycle hire stands) available in [...]
Tags: cycling, london, united kingdom
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BIG videos
August 23rd, 2010
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) has been in the limelight for the past quite some time. He has quirkily simple ideas, visualized amazingly well! Here is the official link of the BIG channel on Vimeo where you can find videos of him explaining his concepts with amazingly good effects! Don’t miss to watch the following videos: [...]
Tags: architecture, big, bjarke ingels group, denmark, visualization
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Visualizing data through Google Public Data Explorer
April 23rd, 2010
Google Public Data Explorer is a new tool I found quite by chance which visualizes some very interesting databanks in a useful manner. For example, the World Developement Indicators obtained from the World Bank include quite a few statistics relating to environment: Agricultural land (% of land area) CO2 emissions (kt) CO2 emissions (metric tons [...]
Tags: co2 emissions, datasets, google, public data explorer, world bank
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Earth hour 2010 tomorrow!
March 26th, 2010
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as [...]
Tags: 2010, earth hour
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Retrofitting at Ecobuild
March 5th, 2010
Guest author: Victor Lopez-Rioboo Gil
One of the main topics at Ecobuild this year has been building retrofitting. This was triggered by the new government strategy “Warm Homes, Greener Homes”, which sets the ambitious target of reducing carbon emissions from UK homes by 29% by 2020. It is estimated that this will imply thermal upgrades in some 7 million households [...]
Tags: 2010, ecobuild, greener homes, payback, retrofitting, warm homes
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Geothermal energy system vs. ground source heat pump
March 2nd, 2010
Over the past year, I and other people as well (Treehugger) have noticed the growing confusion over geothermal energy systems and ground source heat pumps. Googling for one gives results about the other and then there is the trouble of non-standard names. People refer to the GSHP as geothermal heat pumps which is NOT the [...]
Tags: geothermal, ground source heat pump, gshp
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Ecobuild exhibition (London)
February 16th, 2010
The Ecobuild exhibition is from Tuesday 02 to Thursday 04 March 2010 at Earl’s Court (London). I attended the 2009 exhibitions and it was full of innovative products and stimulating discussions and seminars. If you are in London during this period, don’t miss this exhibition. Register online for your free invites else be prepared to [...]
Tags: 2010, earl's court, ecobuild, exhibition, london
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Welcome to Sustainotect
February 9th, 2010
Welcome to Sustainotect! This is blog where I will be posting my experiences with scripting and using various environmental tools such as Ecotect, TAS, Radiance, Envi-met. I will be writing tutorials so that students and architects can easily use these hard-to-figure-out tools and use them to develop better buildings/projects! I will be posting from time [...]
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