With Papierowe Miasto Kids Can Make Entire Towns from Recycled Paper

Looking for a fun activity that will pull your kids away from the computer and video games for a few hours? With  Papierowe Miasto’s Paper Town , designed by Robert Czajka, you and your little ones can create entire villages out of recycled cardboard. All of the pieces come in a flat pack, and all you have to do is fold along perforated lines (no glue is needed). Each set includes a variety of buildings and vehicles printed with colors, patterns and details as small as placing a driver behind the wheel of a bus. READ MORE > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco parenting , green kids , green parenting , papertown , Papierowe Miasto , parenting , recycled paper town , urban planning

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Buffalo Bayou’s Subterranean Cistern Could Become an Underground Performance Venue

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Design Capital Helsinki Sets Green Example With Public Transportation and Alternative Energy Initiatives

Named World Design Capital of 2012 , Helsinki rocks the design world – and the Finnish capital also scores high on the sustainable development scale as well. The city is setting a great green example for the rest of the world with its innovative energy systems, its efficient public transportation networks, and its preservation of the area’s beautiful archipelago . Read on to learn more Helsinki’s eco initiatives! Read the rest of Design Capital Helsinki Sets Green Example With Public Transportation and Alternative Energy Initiatives Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “sustainable development” , archipelago finland , city bike schemes , Finland , green city , Helsiniki , street car design , urban planning

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Kansas City Design Week Delivers Thought-Provoking Events

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The City 2.0: Coveted 2012 TED Award Goes to an Idea Instead of a Person!

This year the TED team upended their own tradition by awarding their 2012 TED prize not to a person, but to an idea! Called  the City 2.0 , the idea is a bit abstract (it is an idea after all), but here’s how it works: a host of leading thinkers contributed to a vision for a future city that respects and incorporates nature into its design, has a small carbon footprint, and drives down disparities in wealth. This plan for the city of the future encourages entrepreneurship and good health, and most importantly is an open-source platform that asks the global community to dream up City 2.0 and make it real. Read the rest of The City 2.0: Coveted 2012 TED Award Goes to an Idea Instead of a Person! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2012 TED Award , autodesk , design challenge , Design for Health , eco design , environmental sustainability , global city , global design , green design , social design , TED , The City 2.0 , the city of the future , urban planning

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Occupy Wall Street’s Liberty Plaza Technically A "Bonus Plaza", Not Private Property

photo: Mat McDermott In case your wondering how a private company, Brookfield, can claim authority to kick out Occupy Wall Street from Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) so that it can be cleaned, it’s important to understand the legal status of the space. Benjamin Shepard , an Assistant Pro… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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MESH Cities: Sustainable, Intelligent Cities of Tomorrow Today

Across North America, people are organizing responses to abuse of power and increasing inequality around a hashtag, #occupywallstreet . It is an example of how technology has changed the way we relate to each other, the way we are now always online wherever we are, how we act when we live in what Robert Ouellette calls MESH Cities , the “offspring of an improbable marriage between Jane Jacobs and ubiquitous city computing.” Robert has launched a new website, to explore ” the wireless systems empowered, 21… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Buildup To Greenbuild: A Waterfront Of Broken Dreams

30,000 green building professionals are coming to Toronto for Greenbuild in October; this series will try to explain Toronto to them. Greenbuild is being held in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, which is a long way from the waterfront. In fact, from Front Street, the north entrance to the Convention Centre, you cannot even see the water, you wouldn’t even know it was there. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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MIT Researchers Launch Software To Help Plan Cities Better — Using Social Network Analysis

Image: Screengrab from Urban Network Analysis (UNA) toolbox tutorial video It’s been estimated that 50 percent of the world’s population now lives in cities, with another two billion expected to move to already overcrowded urban areas in the next twenty years. The pressures of rapid urbanization often mean that careful urba… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes and Breadcrumb Gremolata

Photo: Kelly Rossiter If you are like me, you have a glut of tomatoes in your backyard right about now. Either that, or you’ve been seduced into buying too many of those red beauties from the market. In any case, I’ve had a lot of tomatoes to use up recently. This is one of those very recipes that has a simple flavour base, but still makes for a satisfying meal. It’s also a dish that is very kid-friendly,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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