Archive for the 'Climate & environment' Category

Trouble the Water

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary - Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water opens in select cities this weekend.
Trouble The Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart stopping, infuriating, inspiring and empowering. People leave the theaters wanting and needing to do something – not only about the tragedy […]

Liquid London and its Watery Future

Monday, July 7th, 2008

To mark the London Festival of Architecture, The Guardian’s Jonathan Glancey explores in a short video whether the capital’s waterlogged past holds the key to its wet and wild future.

- Matthew

Transportation informatics

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

If Dan Hill’s incredible post on urban informatics wasn’t enough to convince you that he’s one of the most observant and insightful writers on the topic, then perhaps his most recent exploration of transport informatics will. But don’t be deceived by his claim that this is merely a “quick survey of new informational approaches […]

A beautiful day in the neighbourhood?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Mr. Roger’s neighbourhood this is not.
The snow is finally melting in our part of the country, and none too soon as pretty much everyone was getting really friggin’ tired of winter. At least this ended well in a roundabout way.
- Anne

Climate of Change?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Martin Jacques in The Guardian writes of a geopolitical sea change marked for Britain by the nationalization of Northern Rock, a UK bank and in the US by the sub-prime mortgages and home repossession crisis and worldwide by major banking losses such as UBS quarterly loss of GBP5.8B.
As the ’30s marked the […]

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