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A new Kansas state house bill introduced by the Committee on Energy and the Environment is seeking to outlaw sustainable development. Although some believe that green infrastructure can ensure a high standard of living for...

Rio de Janeiro’s famous Botafago beach has a new sculpture attraction in the form of a giant head. The white carving stands 12m (39-foot) tall, and portrays a 14-year old girl’s head with her eyes closed. It is made...

It is said that the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro will be the most temporary games in history! As announced in August, London-based AECOM was given another go at designing a masterplan for the international event (the...

It’s time to give all mankind a real chance to enjoy genuine development Guest post by Dr. Kelvin Kemm The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20” comes from the fact that it took place...

Read the rest of Falcon-Inspired Qatar National Pavilion Lands at Rio+20 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco pavilion, green architecture, Green Building,...

News coming in suggests Rio was a junket to nowhere. I’m still waiting for Monckton to go through the fine print. Is there a sting?

Lord Monckton Reports From Rio Source: SPPI I wrote yesterday about the unprecedented way the UN was locking out anyone at Rio that was not part of an official government delegation...

Quite possibly the only good thing about this week's Rio + 20 summit is that it coincides with the publication of a brilliant new book called Os Melancias...

According to Greenpeace its an “epic fail”. WWF says its a “colossal failure”, and it’s so bad, Oxfam want to start all over again. That news may sound good to the free citizens of the West,...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the rent-seekers, money-hungry NGOs, grifters, post-normal “scientists”, con-men, Eurotrash, and the usual camp followers are gearing up again for another monumental waste...

Read the rest of Luis de Garrido’s Extraordinary Berimbau Tower Projects Video and Images Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2014, 2016, Berimbau, bioclimatic conditions, eco design, eco-dome,...

If WATG has their way, the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be the greenest yet – thanks to their awesome design proposal entitled The Cloud Bridge...

Read the rest of Over A Thousand Terraced Green Roofs Grace JDS’s Olympic Port Proposal for Rio Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco residences, green...

Gasland Gasland is the a visually provocative story by writer director Josh Fox who was inspired to explore the dangers of gas drilling when he was offered money to drill at his property in Pennsylvania...

With the World Cup scheduled to take place in Brazil in 2014 and the Summer Olympic games following in 2016, officials in Rio thought it was high time to revitalize the abandoned Paineiras hotel and turn it into a model for...