Tag: sustainable living

Solar Powered School

I’m thrilled to see more and more alternative energy examples cropping up around the globe. Global warming or not, using finite resources is simply unwise esp. when these pollute our world. Society, progress, change needs to be motivated by something other than money … suppose that’s the reason why it’s so easy for developing countries… Continue reading Solar Powered School

Quality of Life

Jay Shafer has it good… he decided to downsize his life, exit the rat race and live simply by focusing on simply living and pursuing what he wants to do with his life rather than letting money worries control him. Personally, I find him a huge inspiration … check it out and let me know if you had a chance to downsize, how would you go about doing it?

Bubble Architecture, Basis for Sustainable Future

Southern California has experienced such devastation caused by wildfires that I wonder why homes burn down only to be rebuilt exactly the same way?! Same principle applies to dwellings and earthquakes.

I started thinking about this especially after I met the late Nader Khalali (calearth.org), an Persian-born architect, writer, and humanitarian who received his philosophical and architectural education in Iran, Turkey, and the United States.

Take Nader’s approach to building for example. He built super adobe, geodesic structures with building materials you can find anywhere. From my studies I’ve learned that the geodesic architectural design/structure offers the following benefits:

Sustainability – Where to Start

(quoted from More with Less @ globaloneness project)

To support outer efforts towards sustainability we need to radically adjust our inner attitudes toward the material world. Relationships based on greed, over-identification with ownership, and the use of material goods to establish status and power over others, can be traded for new values and ways of living that empower a healthy and dignified relationship to all the earth’s resources.

This shift in how we think about and relate … is a requirement …

Hamburg’s Hydrogen Efforts

There are still some details to be worked out when it comes to the use of Hydrogen, esp. in industrial applications e.g. local transports. Hamburg, Germany is spearheading that effort and testing this technology with a small fleet of city busses. Rather than talking about it, they’re applying their resources, learning from their experience, and developing solutions. This is, as one would say, where the rubber meets the road.

Hydrogen has a Future

If we’re to look at Iceland’s example of H2 usage, we’d think that an entire infrastructure has to be built to support hydrogen vehicles of the future. On top of that, I’m a bit cynical about how long it takes our government to build or rebuild an infrastructure unless we do it ourselves. Developed by… Continue reading Hydrogen has a Future

Manila’s Green Message

It looks like in Manila people aren’t waiting for something like bicycling to become cool, instead, they are motivated by the need of the environment and the fact that cars stink… and just as importantly, bicycling as an exercise is simply healthy and therefore makes sense for many different reasons.