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- Sustainable city block in Hamburg goes for gold in energy-efficiency Wed, 19 Feb 20, 2:30amIn Hamburg’s HafenCity district, German architecture firm blauraum Architekten has recently completed the KPTN, a new city block that fits about a dozen different functions under one roof...
- New Orleans’ $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won’t fight a Category 5 hurricane Wed, 26 Aug 15, 1:30amAn often-repeated truth about Hurricane Katrina is that the events of August 29 2005, were not a natural disaster, they were a man made one caused by the failure of the levee systems that had been designed to protect the...
- New Orleans $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won’t fight a Category 5 hurricane Wed, 26 Aug 15, 1:30amAn often-repeated truth about Hurricane Katrina is that the events of August 29 2005, were not a natural disaster, they were a man made one caused by the failure of the levee systems that had been designed to protect the...
- INFOGRAPHIC: The Cost of Flooding and How to Stay Afloat When Disaster Strikes Fri, 7 Mar 14, 9:00amWhile the western US suffers the worst drought in centuries, the UK has been battered by powerful storms and rising floodwaters. A new infographic from My Alarm Center looks at the costs of flooding and provides solutions...
- How Can We Waterproof Our Future? Wed, 5 Feb 14, 2:00amThe Sea Tree design by architect Koen Olthuis (c) Waterstudio.NL When the movie Waterworld premiered in 1995, people regarded the Kevin Costner flick as a fairly ridiculous post-apocalyptic science fiction film: Now, nearly...