The Global Tree

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2008-10-13T08:44:00.001-07:00

47° 55′ 0″ N, 106° 55′ 0″ E

Kobe, Japan

2008-10-13T08:18:00.001-07:00

34° 41′ 0″ N, 135° 12′ 0″ E

Akademgorodok, Russia

2008-10-10T19:42:00.000-07:00

54° 51′ 3.6″ N, 83° 6′ 21.6″ E

Florianopolis, Brazil

2008-10-07T18:32:00.001-07:00

27° 34′ 18.12″ S, 48° 37′ 32.16″ W

Calais, France

2008-09-27T21:20:00.001-07:00

50° 56′ 53″ N, 1° 51′ 23″ E

Cape Town, South Africa

2008-09-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

33° 55′ 0″ S, 18° 25′ 0″ E

Bern, Switzerland

2008-09-16T20:07:00.001-07:00

46° 57′ 0″ N, 7° 27′ 0″ E

Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2008-09-16T06:21:00.000-07:00

10° 45′ 0″ N, 106° 40′ 0″ E

Austin, Texas, USA

2008-09-15T21:07:00.001-07:00

30° 16′ 2″ N, 97° 45′ 50″ W

Yazd, Iran

2008-09-07T21:18:00.000-07:00

31° 54′ 0″ N, 54° 22′ 0″ E

Buxoro, Uzbekistan

2008-08-31T23:39:00.000-07:00

40° 10′ 0″ N, 63° 40′ 0″ E

Bukhara: Pearl of the Desert
Hello from Students

Moab, Utah

2008-08-31T08:27:00.001-07:00

38° 34′ 21″ N, 109° 32′ 59″ W

Moab Happenings

Colombo, Sri Lanka

2008-08-29T16:07:00.000-07:00

Theertha International Artist Collective
Earn A Life:towards an ever green sri lanka

Torino, Italy

2008-08-28T09:09:00.001-07:00

45° 4′ 0″ N, 7° 42′ 0″ E

COMPLEXITY MAPS

TORINO WORLD DESIGN

Tiromancino: Learning From Wind
No Conventional Sound
Artificial Dummies

Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands

2008-08-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

52° 22′ 23″ N, 4° 53′ 32″ E

Benny Sings

Lucas, Kansas

2008-08-22T19:49:00.000-07:00

39° 3′ 32″ N, 98° 32′ 15″ W

Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008-08-19T20:40:00.000-07:00

34° 36′ 36″ S, 58° 22′ 11.99″ W

Bulgan, Mongolia

2008-08-18T06:01:00.001-07:00

48° 48′ 0″ N, 103° 33′ 0″ E

Berkeley, California, USA

2008-08-12T19:59:00.001-07:00

37° 52′ 13″ N, 122° 16′ 5″ W

Edible Schoolyard

Palmanova, Italy

2008-08-10T21:16:00.000-07:00

45° 54′ 0″ N, 13° 19′ 0″ E

Dalian, China

2008-08-03T06:37:00.000-07:00

39° 2′ 0″ N, 121° 46′ 0″ E

Marseille, France

2008-08-02T09:16:00.000-07:00

43° 17′ 51″ N, 5° 22′ 38″ E

Life On Mars

Athens, Greece

2008-07-30T18:56:00.000-07:00

37° 58′ 0″ N, 23° 43′ 0″ E

Daily Photo

Kokura, Japan

2008-07-30T17:15:00.000-07:00

33° 53′ 0″ N, 130° 53′ 0″ E

Helsingor, Denmark

2008-07-25T05:23:00.000-07:00

56° 2′ 0″ N, 12° 37′ 0″ E

Danish News

Dodoma, Tanzania

2008-07-23T10:06:00.001-07:00

6° 10′ 23″ S, 35° 44′ 31″ E

Alexandria, Egypt

2008-07-23T10:00:00.001-07:00

31° 11′ 52.8″ N, 29° 55′ 9.12″ E

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Goa, India

2008-07-23T09:48:00.001-07:00

15° 29′ 34.8″ N, 73° 49′ 4.8″ E

Child's Blog
Institute of Oceanography
Daily Photo
Frederick Noronha

Teotihuacan, Mexico

2008-07-23T09:43:00.000-07:00

19° 41′ 33″ N, 98° 50′ 37.68″ W

water

April 2--Bilbao, Spain

2008-04-14T13:06:00.000-07:00

April 1-- Indio, California

2008-04-13T21:44:00.001-07:00

Coachella Festival

March 31-- Mostar, Bosnia

2008-03-31T13:32:00.001-07:00

March 30-- Sao Paulo, Brazil

2008-03-31T11:30:00.000-07:00

March 29--Kerala, India

2008-03-31T11:24:00.001-07:00

March 28--Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

2008-03-31T11:15:00.001-07:00

Aminah Robinson

Green Energy Ohio

March 27-- Concepcion, Paraguay

2008-03-31T11:06:00.000-07:00

March 26--San Francisco, California

2008-03-30T18:48:00.000-07:00

Ecocity World Summit 2008
Lynn Rubenzer: Artist
Barbara Jane Reyes: poeta y diwata

March 25-- Bratislava, Slovakia

2008-03-30T18:39:00.000-07:00

March 24--Mexico City, Mexico

2008-03-30T18:32:00.001-07:00

Daily Images

March 23--Cairo, Egypt

2008-03-30T18:26:00.001-07:00

March 22--Sofia, Bulgaria

2008-03-26T11:41:00.001-07:00

March 21--Orkney Islands, Scotland

2008-03-26T11:33:00.000-07:00

March 20--Oostende, Belgium

2008-03-26T11:26:00.000-07:00

Pica Pica
Towards

March 19--Nankoweap Trail, Arizona

2008-03-26T11:21:00.000-07:00

March 18--Kallaste, Estonia

2008-03-26T11:14:00.000-07:00

March 17--Keszthely, Hungary

2008-03-23T11:01:00.001-07:00

Abstrack: Music
Balaton Festival
Aerial Photography
Balkan Tango: recycled bicycle inner tubes

March 16--Lagos, Portugal

2008-03-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

Vivenda Miranda Webcam

March 15--Tipperary, Ireland

2008-03-18T14:46:00.001-07:00

March 14--Samara, Russia

2008-03-18T14:03:00.001-07:00

March 13--Lausanne, Switzerland

2008-03-18T12:32:00.000-07:00

March 12--Vlora, Albania

2008-03-18T11:23:00.000-07:00

Albanian Beehives

March 11--Chiang Mai, Thailand

2008-03-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

March 10--Burkina Faso, West Africa

2008-03-10T20:21:00.001-07:00

Boris Martin's Blog
A mom's 9th year in Burkina Faso

March 9--Taos, New Mexico, USA

2008-03-09T21:04:00.000-07:00

The Phoenix Earthship

In order to make a building sustainable it must use materials indigenous to the area and use techniques that are available to the average person. The amount of energy required to convert found objects into the living space determines the success of the project. This concept is called embodied energy.

The Dobson Bed and Breakfast

Joan and John Dobson built their structure by hand over a three year period. The couple collected 20,000 aluminum cans; 2,000 discarded tires; 34 tons (31 metric tons) of Colorado red sandstone; and 28,000 pounds (12700 kg) of dry cement, much of which they hand mixed in a wheelbarrow. The building's energy is provided by 26 solar panels.

Unofficial Taos: Joel Gottlieb's Blog

March 8--Dalston, England

2008-03-08T11:55:00.001-08:00

As part of a public art installation, artist Sumer Erek is building a house from recycled newspapers in Gillett Square. He has encouraged the public to collect over 60,000 discarded newspapers and even suggested that they write their own messages on the paper they bring to the site. This hand-rolled house will be as fleeting as the daily news; standing for just one day.

Newspaper House

March 7--West Kootenay, Canada

2008-03-08T11:48:00.000-08:00

March 6--Genoa, Italy

2008-03-08T11:40:00.000-08:00

March 5--Hartford, Connecticut

2008-03-08T11:30:00.000-08:00

March 4--Pisaq, Peru

2008-03-05T21:20:00.001-08:00

March 3--Uganda

2008-03-05T16:50:00.001-08:00

Monica Arac de Nyeko: Caine Prize Winner
Violet Barungi: writer
Jane Nteyafas: poet, artist, writer, playwright
Uganda Music
Never Man: stories of Kampala City

March 2--New Zealand

2008-03-03T18:12:00.001-08:00

March 1--Simi, Greece

2008-03-03T07:10:00.001-08:00

February 29--Luxembourg

2008-03-02T16:36:00.000-08:00

Church built into the hillside.

February 28--Kent, England

2008-03-02T09:41:00.001-08:00

Odyssey is group of larger-than-life wooden sculptures created by Robert Koenig as part of a traveling public art exhibition. Koeing carved the figures as a memorial to deceased ancestors that he never met.

The Hei People is a public art installation by Finnish artist Reijo Kela. Kela’s work deals with identity, cultural myths and images and the individual as part of a changing society.

The Pines Calyx building in Dover, designed by Helionix Designs, is the most sustainable conference and events venue in the UK. The building saves 66% in energy consumption and 67% in CO2 emissions. The building uses site excavated chalk for the walls and the dome top is made of local clay rings that are glued together with gypsum plaster. Solar panels provide the building with hot water and a biomass unit provides underfloor heat.

CyclePod
Rural Ways
Brenda Burgess Arts
Kent TV

February 27--Kauai, Hawaii

2008-02-27T13:28:00.000-08:00

The Kauai local planning commission has approved construction of a biomass power plant on the island. The plant will be owned and operated by Green Energy Hawaii and will use albizia trees as a renewable energy resource. The plant will provide 10% of the island's energy needs.

Sustainability In Hawaii

February 26--Malmo, Sweden

2008-02-26T17:26:00.001-08:00

Augustenborg Botanical Roof Garden

Malmo is the 4th greenest city in the world.

Design Boost: Sustainable Design
Ekostaden.com

February 25--Seville, Spain

2008-02-26T15:33:00.000-08:00

Samuel Bowles: Designer

February 24--Portland, Maine, USA

2008-02-26T15:21:00.000-08:00

Strange Maine
Portland Maine Daily Photo
Vigorous North

February 23--Florence, Italy

2008-02-26T15:13:00.000-08:00

Festival Of Creativity

February 22--Malawi, The Warm Heart of Africa

2008-02-22T18:39:00.000-08:00

The new biofuels market has the potential to make a huge difference in Africa's agriculture economy as well as help with the country's Green Revolution. Using farm land for biofuels may attract funds for rural developement. In 2007 Malawi began selling corn to the UN's World Food Program and exported thousands of tons of corn to its neighbors. Had they converted the excess food into biofuel, they would have replaced all of their imported fossil fuel at once and become entirely oil independent.

William Kamkwamba: Student studying wind and solar energy

Bennett Kankuzi: Computer Science Student

Malawi Music Portal

February 21--Costa Rica

2008-02-21T18:21:00.000-08:00

Finca Bellavista: A Sustainable Rainforest Community is located at the base of a primary rainforest mountain on the South Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The community strives to implement sustainable energy sources such as hydroelectric and solar power. Each unit captures its own rainwater. There is a community garden as well as a recycling center.

February 20--Malta

2008-02-21T18:00:00.000-08:00

Daily Photo

Gordon's D-Zone:Malta through the eyes of disability

Malta Music Blog

February 19--Minsk, Belarus

2008-02-19T20:21:00.000-08:00

The Minsk Children's Railway

Award Winning Daily Photo Blog

Belarus Music

Karlin Gazette

February 18--London

2008-02-19T11:18:00.000-08:00

February 17--Tasmania

2008-02-19T11:10:00.000-08:00

Daily Photo

Birds In Tasmania

Zenuria's Karma Web

February 16--Heiligenblut, Austria

2008-02-16T20:54:00.000-08:00

February 15--Riga, Latvia

2008-02-16T20:43:00.001-08:00

February 14--Farafra, Egypt

2008-02-16T20:10:00.000-08:00

Self-taught, local Artist Badr Abd El-Moghny has built an eco-friendly house using natural materials. The house also serves as a museum for his sandstone sculptures, clay wall engravings, sand paintings and terracotta figures.

The Camera and I: Freelance Journalism

Reflections in the Nile

The Eloquent Peasant

February 13-- Bucharest, Romania

2008-02-15T17:26:00.001-08:00

Bukresh Blog

Brasov Daily Photo

Gates of Bucharest

February12-- Leiden, Netherlands

2008-02-12T11:41:00.001-08:00

February 11--Uruguay

2008-02-11T20:49:00.001-08:00

Feira de Tristán Narvaja, the largest flea market in Uruguay

Montevideo Refrescos, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola is using electric trucks to deliver the product to the urban areas of Montevideo. The company hopes to use about one- fifth the fuel that was previously used.

34s56w: very unusual
Contemporary Art Museum
Banjofondo: electronica tango

February 10--Paris, France

2008-02-10T20:14:00.000-08:00

Musée du Quai Branly

Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc

Along with London, Paris won the 2008 Sustainable Transport Award. The award recognized the city for enhancing the sustainability and livability of their community or region by adopting innovative transportation strategies that lessen the impact of climate change. This was done by creating a bike sharing, mass transit system called Vélib (Freedom Bikes). People pay a low fee to use the bikes from one of the many bike parking stations located in the city and they can return the bikes to any station they wish. By the end of 2007, Vélib had more than 1,200 stations and 15,000 bikes in the system. Paris has built more than 314 kilometers (195 miles) of bike lanes, and bicycling has increased 48 percent during the past five years.

Paris Breakfasts: Daily breakfast and watercolor
Maitresse: Literature in Paris
Daily Photo

February 9--Seattle, Washington, USA

2008-02-09T20:25:00.001-08:00

Experience Music Project Frank Gehry: Architect
Aerial view of building

Fremont Solstice Parade

The Fremont Troll under The Aurora Bridge

Statue of Sadako Sasaki in Seattle Peace Park

Seattle Architects Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum won a recent C2C design contest for sustainable housing. One of the contest's guiding principles was,"The home you design must stop the process of taking and begin the process of giving". The house creates energy through a solar collecting photosynthetic plasma skin that is based on spinach protein. The living skin grows and follows the path of the sun. The house also has a vegetated roof system that collects and filters storm water, and uses soy-foam wall panels for insulation.

Sustainable Style Foundation
Seattle Art Blog

February 8--Victoria, Australia

2008-02-08T20:05:00.000-08:00

Strange Fruit is a Melbourne-based company that produces and performs works for the streets and the outdoors using four-metre high flexible poles.

Inaugural Earth Hour 2007

Earth Hour 2008

Indie Art & Design
Melbourne Photo Blog
The Breakfast Blog

February 7--Guilin, China

2008-02-07T17:44:00.001-08:00

In nearby Beijing:
The Olympic Aquatic Center, nicknamed "The Water Cube", is officially open. The building's steel frame is covered by a Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene membrane which absorbs solar radiation and minimizes thermal loss, reducing energy costs by 30%. The membrane captures thousands of gallons of rainwater and is also recyclable.

The Impression of Liu's 3rd sister"(Yin Xiang Liu San Jie) is an outdoor live show beside Li River Yangshuo Guilin China the one hour performance, includes more than 600 actors.

12 Months In The Middle Kingdom
A Quing Historian Reads the Newspaper
Josh from Brooklyn, blogging from China
An American Professor in China
The Sounds of Beijing

February 6--Dominican Republic

2008-02-06T20:07:00.001-08:00

The Bio E Group will use biomass from sugarcane in two newly constructed distilleries that will produce ethanol as well as renewable electricity. Sugar cane is the nations most important commercial crop but due to lowering world prices many farmers have been pushed into poverty.
This new biofuel opportunity is expected to revive the rural economy which employs 17% of the country's workforce. There is potential for new job creation because the energy consortium will not produce its own sugarcane but will buy it from local farmers at a fair price.

Dominican Masks
Changing Perspectives: the concerns of Elizabeth Roebling
The Dominican Republic Project

February 5--Tel-Aviv, Israel

2008-02-05T13:07:00.000-08:00

From a series of 200 handmade paper lanterns in an outdoor display of public art. The fleeting life span of each fragile lantern tried to convey the intimacy of the coincidental connection between viewer and artist.

Israel will be the testing ground for the electric car as they partner up with Project Better Place.
This pioneering effort will include 100% electric cars manufactured by a Renault-Nissan Alliance and an Electric Recharge Grid constructed and operated by Project Better Place. Shai Agassi, the man at the heart of Project Better Place, contends that operating expenses will be half that of fossil fueled cars.

The Green Prophet: environment forecast
Flowers In Israel

February 4--Vilnius, Lithuania

2008-02-04T18:49:00.000-08:00

Lazdynų Pelėda is the writer pseudonym of two sisters:
Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija

Lastauskienė

Bionovus, a biofuel company that provides ecological and renewable energy products, has its largest bio-boiler in Vilnius. The company also owns the largest modern waste recycling facility in the country. Making biomass fuel from forest floor leftovers not only helps to stabilize CO2 emissions but it also helps revive rural economies. Biomass is the largest source of energy in the EU today. The latent power of biomass can be used for electricity, heat and liquid biofuels. Another plus for biomass is the fact that it can be used in many existing energy infrastructures with little adaptation.

EUROPOS PARKAS: an open air sculpture museum
DIDART: Interactive Artist House

February 3--Samso, Denmark

2008-02-03T19:15:00.000-08:00

The Island of Samso is the most energy independent place on earth. In 1997 the residents began a challenge to become 100% energy self-sufficient within 10 years. Today, 100% of their electricity comes from windpower, 70% of their heat comes from solar panels and biomass, and many cars and farm equipment are powered by rapeseed oil.

Samso is now called Energy Island and has become a model in the areas of energy ownership and alternative resources. They even have their own energy theme song.

Songwriter's Retreat
Torben Thoger: Musician living on Samso

February 2-- Toronto, Canada

2008-02-03T08:02:00.001-08:00

Just for Laughs Festival, July 2007

Bloor-Yorkville Icefest, 2007

This year: Feb. 21-24.

Living wall at University of Guelph-Humber

Nights of Fire

The Photography of Adam Makarenko
Evolution Green: sustainable living ideas
Daily Photoblog by Sam Javanrouh
View On Canadian Art

February 1--Cappadocia, Turkey

2008-02-01T19:49:00.000-08:00

Fairy Chimneys

Love Valley

New technology cuddles up to ancient walls.

The new buildings seem to blend right in with the original structures.

At this carpet weaving center flowers, berries and leaves are used to make natural dyes for the wool.

YouTube Video

January 31--Madrid, Spain

2008-01-31T20:21:00.001-08:00

Fat Tuesday

This "green wall" or vertical garden is clinging to the wall on one of the buildings of the Caixa Forum. This combination of man made architecture and nature was designed by botanist Patrick Blanc. The plants are grown without any soil and are chosen according to climate as well as native context. Read more about Patrick's passion for green at PingMag.

The Art or Recycling

A tree in Parque Del Retiro

As of March 2007 all new or newly renovated Spanish buildings must be equipped with solar panels that provide 30 to 70 percent of hot water.

Lobster Squad: a food blog with drawings
Technology For Life: New Technologies between Spain and the United States

January 30--Prague, Czech Republic

2008-01-30T19:36:00.000-08:00

Food and Drink Blog
Prague Spoon
Wine Ink: Drawing With Wine
Daily Photos
An American Journalist on a Bike
More Daily Photos
Yet More Photos
Journeys in the Czech Republic

January 29--Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy

2008-01-29T20:44:00.000-08:00

Manarola seen from Lover's Walk

Buranco Vineyard maintains the traditions of the past

January 28--Budapest, Hungary

2008-01-28T20:24:00.001-08:00

Museum of Applied Arts

Part of ING building designed by Eric Van Egeraat

Budapest Daily Photos
A food blog
A Hungarian Art Website
Music Export Hungary
Another Hungarian Music Portal
Singas Project (music)

January 27--Guatemala

2008-01-27T20:22:00.001-08:00

Fair Trade Guatemalan Crafts
Guatemalan Art Director's Blog
Buried Mirror: A look at ancient and modern Mayan culture.
James Rodriguez: Independent Photo-Documentarian

Holly Wilmeth: Photojournalist

January 26--Malaysia

2008-01-26T14:22:00.000-08:00

Award(video) winning architecture of Petronas University of Technology. The buildings, designed by Foster & Partners, become part of the natural landscape and are rich with contextual cultural references as well as an architectural response to climate.
via Mirage Studio7

Daily Photos from Kuala Lumpur
LA VIE EST BELLE

January 25-- Bavaria, Germany

2008-01-25T20:33:00.000-08:00

Neuschwanstein Castle

Neuschwanstein Castle in the snow

Heliotrope

Rolf Disch Solar Architect ure

Dome at the German Reichstag

The energy system is based on a mix of solar power, geothermal power, biofuel generators and innovative ventilation. Eighty percent of the electricity is generated internally.

January 24--Newfoundland

2008-01-24T19:47:00.000-08:00

Newfoundland, through sketches, drawing and writing.
Literature linked to Newfoundland
Find out what's cooking in a Newfoundland Kitchen.

January 23--Kiev, Ukraine

2008-01-23T20:28:00.000-08:00

Contemporary Ukrainian Culture and Art
Ukrainian Music

Ecological project "Torba - prirodi (Bag for the Nature)"