http://www.inhabitat.com Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With a death toll of about 4,000 people in the U.S. alone, swine flu is a clear and present danger - and it could be lurking in a human body near you! But what if you could easily identify, and politely steer clear of, anyone who may be a potential ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/29/thermochromic-swine-flu-masks-colors-are-fever-activated/ THE INHABITAT GREEN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE! Who doesn’t love the holiday season? The trimmed trees, the colorful lights, that first sip of hot apple cider… But wait, you can’t forget the crowded parking lots, the long lines, the screaming babies and the unflinching parents violently fighting over the last ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/28/the-2009-inhabitat-green-gift-guide/ In this modern age of light pollution, cities that never sleep, 24 hour streaming TV and addictive RSS feeds, regulating one's own circadian rhythms can be, well...difficult. And for those of us who have a computer strapped to our torsos at all times, watching a sunrise or sunset (somewhere other ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/28/online-sunsets-a-virtual-dusk-and-dawn-for-the-internet-addicted/ THE INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE IS HERE! It's that time of year again! Today is Black Friday, the most infamous shopping day of the year, and the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season. This year, instead of dragging your tryptophan-infused body up at the crack of dawn, blearily driving your ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/27/announcing-the-2009-inhabitat-green-gift-guide/ In case you missed the big news in the wake of your Thanksgiving celebration, President Obama is, in fact, planning to travel to Copenhagen next month to deliver a speech and participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference! Armed with a tentative plan and an emissions reduction target for ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/27/obama-going-to-copenhagen-next-month/ Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!We can't be believe that Thanksgiving has already come round again, and as we savor the holiday with friends and family we'd like to take a moment to pause and give thanks for all of the great things that the past year has brought! It's been an incredible ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-from-inhabitat-3/ Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries.[gallery]Conducting polymers have long been thought to be ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/algae-could-be-the-key-to-ultra-thin-biodegradable-batteries/ Inhabitat has done a lot of coverage of living walls, particularly those of French botanist Patrick Blanc. They are complicated things, requiring pumps, hydroponics and a lot of care. If they don't get it right they can fail, like the Paradise Park Childrens Centre in London did.Edouard François does a ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/the-green-facades-of-edouard-francois/ It was a great pleasure to step away from the computer and check out a fabulously beautiful book sent to us by Artisan publishers on the eco-friendly practice of restoring townhomes, brownstones and row houses. Written by Ingrid Abramovitch, Restoring a House in the City is a wonderful resource on ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/book-review-restoring-a-house-in-the-city/ Making environmentally conscious consumer choices can be difficult when walking down supermarket aisles awash with hyper-marketed products. Enter GoodGuide, who has just released a new barcode scanning iPhone application that gives shoppers the power to seek out socially conscious products, right in the palm of their hand.Just like the ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/goodguide%e2%80%99s-new-iphone-app-scans-for-green-products/ The winner of the extremely exciting Re:Vision Dallas competition to create a completely sustainable community on a run-down city block in downtown Dallas was just announced yesterday - and it's incredible! "Fowarding Dallas," submitted by Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov took the grand prize with their hillside-inspired design that consists ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/forwarding-dallas-wins-revision-dallas-competition/ Imagine a machine that could suck carbon dioxide right out of the air and magically transform it into a usable product. It may seem like wishful thinking, but that's exactly what researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories hope to do. They've created a protoype of a device that can turn ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/new-machine-turns-co2-into-fuel/ Since Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004, its capital city Ljubjana has lead the way in economic and social development. Unlike other nations who have just begun to find wealth and the new construction that comes with it, the Slovenes remain conscious of the urban and social impact of ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/25/rolling-green-roofed-sports-park-in-slovenia/ Costanera Sur is a proposal for a vertical zoo in Buenos Aires that transforms a pile of rubble into a towering pillar of falling water. Designed by Visiondivision, the project aims to reclaim debris left over from the construction of Buenos Aires' decades-old highways, is entirely self-sufficient, and could theoretically ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/24/eden-falls-skyscraper-zoo-topped-with-a-waterfall/ Conspiracy! Author James Hoggan realizes the ridiculousness of that word, asserting that it "strains credulity and is offensive in its own right." Yet the massive media sway that he details in Climate Cover-Up feels like something a squinty, scruffy, clipboard-wielding man would accost you with. It turns out that most ...http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/11/24/book-review-climate-cover-up/