Journal: Building Information Modeling as the Core of Sustainable Design Impacts on 40% of Global Energy Consumption

By GreenerBuildings Staff Published October 27, 2010 OAKLAND, CA — Building information modeling can be a valuable tool for architects, engineers and contractors that allows them to explore different design options, see what projects will look like and understand how a structure will perform long before it’s built. BIM, as it’s known in the industry, …

Michel Bauwens: Amplify Brooklyn – Designing A Sustainable Economy At The Community Level

Amplify Brooklyn: Designing A Sustainable Economy At The Community Level EXTRACT: This fall, graduate students in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program at Parsons, in New York City, worked with Penin and her co-director, Eduardo Staszowski, to create Amplify, an exhibit currently on display at Brooklyn’s Arts at Renaissance, which demonstrates existing and potential design solutions …

Eagle: Electric Vehicles Are Not Sustainable – 60 – 1 Loss Ratio on Battery Energy

Alert Reader writes in. It takes 60kw to produce 1kw of lithium battery capacity. Sustainable electric eehicles demand that we use less neodymium, cobalt and lithium. To say that we, as a society, are complicit in gross negligence by buying today’s 1.5 to 3 tonne Electric vehicles would be a massive understatement of the first …