22.04 Earth Day

Today is Earth Day. Let's take a look to see how people are leading a sustainable life -

Japan - "Towels Woven by the Wind" from PingMag MAKE



An ecological product, the organic cotton towels woven using electricity made from windmills. The organic cotton is grown just like organic vegetables.

America - "Edible Estates" from Garden Lab



Architect & artist Fritz Haeg has decided to turn un-ecological front yard lawns in people's houses to crop-growing fields. Report from New York Times TMagazine

Further reading -
Earth Day - wikipedia
Blogs about Earth Day 2008

Yahoo! 綠生活 green life

Browsing news in yahoo taiwan website, and found a little link called 減碳風 on the top menu bar.

After I clicked into it, the link turned out to be a dedicated page about sustainable lifestyle -



It's very informative yet not too lengthy on each topic to keep readers not to go away. From the existence of such a mini-portal on sustainable life, it's clear that the public in taiwan (or at least the web population) has already realised the importance of this to our future generations.

On the contrary, no such portal is found in Yahoo! Hongkong web - what a shame!

sustainable architecture 01 . villa nurbs

Come across this house by spanish architect Enric Ruiz-Geli from TMagazine in weekend IHT. The architect's website has more photos and drawings on the project.