Feb 12
Rising and falling in this week’s landscape news: the rise of artificial snow and the fall of a Chinese agricultural spy, the rise of corn and the fall of male frogs.
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May 22
You can take Amazon out of the jungle, but it’ll just create one elsewhere — at least that’s what the company is planning for its inner-city Seattle office complex. A tweaked proposal for Amazon’s three-block development, named “Rufus 2.0,” was run by Seattle’s Design Review Board yesterday, and it now includes a huge biodome structure with the notion that a “plant-rich environment has many positive qualities that are not often found in a typical office setting.” It’s five floors feature places to get work done, “dining, meeting and lounge spaces,” a pair of shops serving the general public and, of course, lots of plants and trees. We’ve included a few more renders of the multi-bubble glass house after the break, and you’ll find even more eye-candy in the source PDF. Forget the platform wars — the competition for the coolest next–gen campus is on.
Filed under: Misc, Alt, Amazon
Via: GeekWire
Source: Seattle.gov (PDF)
Sep 06
Green House outs the GH-LED10WBW a new LED based lantern that runs on salty water
Posted in: Today's Chili
Here you are the latest “Green” gizmo from Green House (no pun intended) the GH-LED10WBW LED Lantern! This rather “bland” LED light hide an ingenious system that let it runs on salty water (Salt + Water) instead of electricity and is capable to offer you up to 8h of light on a single charge of Salty Water. To make it possible the GH-LED10WBW comes with a unique power rode that will use the basic electrolyte principal on the Salt + Water combo to provide the GH-LED10WBW …
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