sonicgreenin an earthfriendly world

Living Pavilion, and installation on Governors Island in NYC, is a low-tech, low-impact installation that employs milk crates as the framework for growing planted surface similar to a green wall. The pavilion’s surface is planted with hanging shade-tolerant plants that will provide an environment maintained at a cooler temperature because of evapotranspiration from the plants. [...]

BioHaven® Floating Islands are the new wave of water stewardship. Modeled on Nature’s floating wetlands, they offer the same benefits in an expanded form.  There is no waterway that will not benefit from the BioHaven® family of floating docks, walkways or floating wetlands.
A BioHaven floating island is an advanced form of Floating Treatment Wetland which “bio-mimics” [...]

Thanks to some amazing teams of people, everything is going according to plan. Led by Gene Smith, Exhibitree has done an incredible job of creating these displays. I love it when the real thing looks exactly like my drawings! The 3D animation is moving right along, as well. Unfortunately, due [...]

3Form Eco-resin, Seaweed

Plyboo
Preparing for Fabrication
Fabrication is about to begin. We had to revise some of the overall measurements to accommodate the actual size of some of the hardware, but we’re very relieved that the original form we had designed survived the realities of construction!
We’re using custom sustainable materials: 3Form Eco-resin – Seaweed and plyboo (plywood [...]

Around $16.5k in Japan
Honda seems to have figured that if it isn’t going to win the hybrid war on technology, it should at least try to win based on price. The first salvo was the Insight hybrid V2.0, which was about $3k less than the 3rd generation Toyota Prius, and the second on is coming soon under [...]