Waterpod: sustainable, navigable living for the future

It's due to launch this May in New York City, but the Waterpod could find some interested customers in London, Amsterdam, Venice and other waterside cities as climate change global sea levels to rise. Designed by a team of New York artists, the Waterpod is a "floating sculptural living structure designed as a new habitat for…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 22, 20091Comment

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NYC gets turbines on skyscrapers – or does it?

Greenbang's a little confused this morning - confused by the words of Michael Bloomberg, New York's Mayor. The fella gave a speech a couple of days ago to the National Clean Energy Summit. It sounded good. It went a bit like this: "Today, we're taking a step that will really kick alternative energy production into high…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 21, 20080Comments

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Reef next stop for NY subway cars

Chucking rubbish into a body of water has long been a favourite pastime of Britain's adolescents. Anthropologists haven't exactly been able to nail why teens are so fond of hurling trolleys, tyres and Coke cans into rivers, canals or the sea, but have hypothesised that it's because they're largely idiotic. While we can only have them…

ByThe Global ViewApril 18, 20080Comments

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New York Transport gets sustainability makeover

Pop quiz, ten points to the winner. What's new about the "rest rooms" (or toilets to the less euphemism prone) at New York's Penn Station? No? One last guess? Nope? OK, Greenbang will end this terrible suspense and let you know: they're being redesigned at a cost of $5 million and the size of the ladies…

ByThe Global ViewApril 17, 20080Comments

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New York pensioners put $500m in green tech fund

Pensions funds remind Greenbang of Otto von Bismarck's remark that "Laws are like sausages, it is better to not see them being made." Greenbang is a cultured lass like that. What goes into sausages and what goes into building pension funds sometimes doesn't bare thinking about. The arms industry, for instance, might be a big money…

ByThe Global ViewApril 9, 20080Comments

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$10 million prize up for grabs in fuel-efficient race

If you fancy getting your hands on $10 million - and let's be honest here, who doesn't - then Greenbang has found a better way than buying a ticket for this week's lottery draw. No, it's not buying two or three tickets for the lottery draw - it's putting on your big science thinking cap…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 26, 20081Comment

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Waterpod: sustainable, navigable living for the future

NYC gets turbines on skyscrapers – or does it?

Reef next stop for NY subway cars

New York Transport gets sustainability makeover

New York pensioners put $500m in green tech fund

$10 million prize up for grabs in fuel-efficient race

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