a cool bicycle parkade
Filed Under: city living, design, environment, green Gadget on May 3, 2010
As our city embraces the use of the bicycle as an important mode of transportation, we wonder if we’d ever get one of these clever Japanese bicy [...]
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24 “rooms” in a 330 sq ft space
Filed Under: city living, design, green Profile on April 27, 2010
We found this interesting Youtube video of an Architect in Hong Kong who has managed to create 24 different “rooms” or experiences in a ti [...]
Google’s streetview
Filed Under: city living, design, environment, vancouver on October 8, 2009
Vancouver has been placed on the world street view map this week. (see link here) Our city’s social media communities are abuzzed with chatter o [...]
more on Evaporative cooling - refrigerators?
Filed Under: cultural, energy, green Gadget, health on August 3, 2009
Following our earlier post on evaporative air conditioning (Hot? try evaporative cooling), here’s another clever use of evaporative cooling. For [...]
Hot? try evaporative cooling …or solar cooling
Filed Under: city living, design, energy, environment, green Gadget, health on July 28, 2009
Canada’s westcoast is experiencing a major heatwave… one of only a few that has occurred over the past 100 years of recorded history. Temp [...]
Wind energy …bad for the Environment?
Filed Under: energy, environment on June 23, 2009
One of the things the Urban Treefrog blog would like to do, is to stimulate thought about what is truly “sustainable”. It is always intere [...]
Canadian eco-Energy efforts
Filed Under: energy, environment on June 9, 2009
A few years back, a group of westcoast Canadian design professionals were invited to China to give a presentation on Canadian sustainability ideas and [...]
Healing naturally, zebra fish style
Filed Under: environment, health, life on June 8, 2009
Yesterday, a baby red eye treefrog was found in my toilet! Yes, this little fellow was very much alive and had managed to locate the only free standin [...]
Solar canopies - daylighting deep into buildings
Filed Under: design, environment, event, vancouver on April 26, 2009
Innovative system gets daylight deep into office buildings to reduce need for electric lighting, offering daylighting while reducing greenhouse gas em [...]
Eco-Tek’s wastewater solution
Filed Under: design, environment, green Profile on April 24, 2009
After posting thoughts on my colleague David Rousseau and on his company, Archemy, I thought of another former schoolmate and passionate environmental [...]
