Green Architecture/Buildings.

[Michaelangelica]

Anti-smog buildings: Clean air through architecture

Anti Smog: An Innovation Centre in Sustainable Development

A new type of architecture is gaining in popularity, thanks to visionaries such as architect Vincent Callebaut that blend design and technology to create a new definition for the term “green building”.
Callebaut’s latest project uses green technologies and systems that are more than just examples of sustainable design; the structure actually improves the environment just by sitting there.

http://www.greengeek.ca/2008/02/04/a...-architecture/

[Michaelangelica]

It starts

Green roofs: Overseas trends and Australian opportunities

Public Lecture
Wednesday 27 August 2008 @ 05:15 pm - 06:15 pm
Room MB 11, Main Building, Burnley Campus


Sidonie Carpenter is the President of Green Roofs Australia, a not-for-profit membership organisation that promotes green roofs as an effective response to climate change, the urban heat island, and urban water quality issues. She is the recipient of the Pratt Foundation/ISS Institute overseas fellowship, which she used to study green roofs in Europe, North America and Asia. Sidonie is also a landscape architect and designer, and the owner of two successful landscape design companies based in Brisbane.

Speaker: Ms Sidonie Carpenter
Enquiries:
Kylie Cannon
+61 3 9250 6803
kcannon@ unimelb.edu.au
http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/i...minarFlyer.pdf

Green roofs: Overseas trends and Australian opportunities : Events : The University of Melbourne

[Nitack]

I found this great site that actually gives you free green/efficient home building plans. Yes, full blueprints and all for free. They make their money on referring LEED certified builders and commission on energy efficient stuff you can buy through them. A really cool idea here.

Free House Plans and Free Green Home Plans from FreeGreen.com

[Michaelangelica]

I would have resisted growing up if I had had a Tree house like these
(Come to think of it I did resist)





10 Astonishing Treehouses You’d Love to Live In | International Listings Blog

[Ganoderma]

why are the coolest pics you see always so tiny....

[Michaelangelica]

I agree, so I went to the first tree house mentioned clicked, and clicked, and downloaded and clicked, and downloaded and clicked and finally you get a big picture. Now what a clever feature! Computers, the wonder of the age!
Its a lousy picture and its not the view you want, or even the treehouse you started with but HEY! we all have heaps of time before we die.

Please, all you communication-challenged 15 year old IT Specialists out there, a BIG red button that says: "Click here for bigger picture for the old blind and lame." would be nice.


BlueForest Exclusive Tree Houses, Tree Homes & Eco-Lodges

[Ganoderma]

HAHA!!!!!

thanks micheal, i feel special now

[Michaelangelica]

Urban Greenscapes Symposium 2009

Also NGIA Confrence
NGIA Conference 2009

[Michaelangelica]

LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATICAL REFUGEES 2100, a large crowd of ecological refugees

Further to the anthropogenic activity, the climate warms up and the ocean level increases. According to the principle of Archimedes and contrary to preconceived notions, the melting of the arctic ice-floe will not change the rising of the water exactly as an ice cube melting in a glass of water does not make its level rise. However, there are two huge ice reservoirs that are not on the water and whose melting will transfer their volume towards the oceans, leading to their rising. It deals with the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland on the one hand, and the continental glaciers on the other hand. Another reason of the ocean rising, that does not have anything to do with the ice melting is the water dilatation under the effect of the temperature.

According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century).
The international scientific scene assets that a temperature elevation of 1°C will lead to a water rising of 1 meter.
This increase of 1 m would bring ground losses emerged of approximately 0.05% in Uruguay, 1% in Egypt, 6% in the Netherlands, 17.5% in Bangladesh and up to 80% approximately in the atoll Majuro in Oceania (Marshall and Kiribati islands and step by step the Maldives islands)

more interesting images and comment here
Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city | yatzer | designistoshare

[Michaelangelica]

Independence Station in Independence, Oregon is set to become the World’s Greenest Building with the highest LEED (The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating ever awarded for new construction.

The current record holder, a Canadian project, has a score of 63 out of a possible 69 points. At its completion next year, Independence Station will likely earn between 64 and 66 points, bringing the top score back to the United States.

The 57,000-square-foot mixed-use structure by Aldeia, LLC is 40% complete, and when finished will house offices, retail space, a restaurant, research facilities, a Direct Current (DC) power based data server room, classroom space, and 15 residential units for 21st century pioneers who will work together to shatter worldwide energy consumption guidelines.

Yellows and Blues | Share - Learn - Green
I would have thought that the Council Melbourne Office Block would have been in the running for this.