Climate Change
Sustainable Cities Collective
Sustainable Cities Collective is an editorially independent, moderated community for leaders of major metropolitan areas, urban planning and sustainability professionals. We look to aggregate content and provide resources for all who work in or are interested in urban planning, sustainable [...]
Green Roofs
Greenroofs, eco-roofs, nature roofs, or roof greening systems are living, vegetative roofing alternatives designed in stark contrast to the many standard non-porous roof choices. Their greatest potential lies in this capacity to cover impervious surfaces with permeable plant material. Greenroofs [...]
LEED as a starting point for sustainability
Once you’ve reached your certification target on LEED you may start asking yourself, now what? That is the question facing the owners and operators of over one billion square feet of commercial space that have obtained LEED status under the [...]
Green walls, living murals
We can’t complain about lack of space for growing plants, since we’ve seen here on Sustentator that they can be grown on living, or green, roofs and in hydroponic systems for the home. Now we’ll present green murals, which are [...]
Glowing tress replace glowing lamps
The golden glow of street lights could soon be replaced by the green fluorescence of tree leaves. Scientists from the Academia Sinica and the National Cheng Kung University in Taipei and Tainan have implanted glowing, sea urchin shaped gold nanoparticles, [...]
Sustainability and sophistication are the perfect couple for a home to be charmingly green
In Eastside Costa Mesa, California, there is charming “green” home which combines perfectly luxury and sustainability. And the result pays off. The home was recently remodeled from the ground up with the primary goal of conservation, and adheres to the [...]
New York unveils new plan to extend blue and green roofs
The city of New York is decided to stop heavy storms sending sewage spilling into city waterways. The city has 14 wastewater treatment plants that during heavy storms turn into major polluters because much of the city’s water system was [...]
Next U.S. sport matches will be against climate change
Collective sport is a competition between two teams. But what if in America’s next matches were also a third player to beat? This third team is climate change, and it is a really hard player. For this reason major League [...]
A full self-sufficient institute in Costa Rica
This house is located on the Peninsula de Osa (Costa Rica), a place where the 5% of the world biodiversity is embodied. Probably is the best location for the new ISEAMI Institute headquarters, a center devoted to the investigation of [...]
Edible Walls
A technology that has been around for many years already is only starting to flourish nowadays. Lush plant-covered walls are being grown with more frequency each day. These vertical gardens started off as a resource for people without gardens to [...]
How to play soccer on a volcano
Probably this new Mexican volcano-like soccer stadium is going to host hot games. The city of Guadalajara is unveiling his renewed estadio Chivas, created by French architects Jean-Marie Massaud and Daniel Pouzet, of studio massaud, a stadium designed to resemble [...]
Pumped Hydro: a new way for an island to be green
Among the different ways to store energy, pumped hydro probably it is not the most known, but it is real and in use around the world. Basically pumped hydro works as a good complement of wind and solar energy, allowing [...]
