Category: Climate Action & Science

The competition aims to create synergy with Busan’s waterfront redevelopment initiatives and transform the existing summer-only facility into a year-round family-oriented destination, developing it as an eco-friendly waterfront leisure space. Under the theme “Establishing…

Woonhuis Heenvliet is located on the edge of the historic village of Heenvliet. When the owners bought the plot, it had an existing house that was partly built on the footprint of a barn…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a key permit for a plan to update an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline crossing the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, the waterways that tribal…

Unlimited Potential, a nonprofit in Phoenix, plants trees in vulnerable neighborhoods and helps run a paid workforce development program. The post Phoenix tree planting program grows jobs appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

A former Tesla president says the endlessly delayed next-generation Roadster is being held up by SpaceX “hovering” technology — and that the project is really about pulling Tesla and SpaceX closer together. Jon McNeill,…

Audi went out of its way to keep the Chinese-market E5 and E7X out of Europe. A third-party company is importing them anyway. Source: InsideEVs.

A majority of coastal wetlands are on track to shift inland or disappear in the coming decades without intervention. That will have major consequences.By Madeline Shaw STONE HARBOR, N.J.—Against a lush carpet of marsh…

Alabama Power has guaranteed that residents’ power bills won’t increase as a result. Can the state’s largest utility keep its promise?By Lee Hedgepeth Wired for Profit: Fourth in a series about Alabama Power’s influence…

I’m building a small entry addition adjacent to an existing building with a full basement.  We were going to do a crawspace under the new entry, but discovered a large… Source: Green Building Advisor.

We’re currently designing a simple gable-roofed house with continuous exterior rockwool insulation.Our walls and roof are basically:Drywall > timber stud wall (with insulation in-between) > plywood sheathing > WRB >… Source: Green Building Advisor.

The preexisting single-story house did not accommodate the spatial needs of the new residents. It was necessary to add another floor, but we did not want to alter the original proportions of the construction.

Located on an infill lot in San Rafael, Mendoza, the house is inserted into a low-density urban fabric characterized by the presence of vegetation in both private courtyards and public spaces. In this context,…