Friday Green Cities Roundup
From Triplepundit.com:
Warren Kalenzig, from SustainLane has a nice little piece on his personal site about various "green city" planning techniques which is well worth reading. It's mostly focused on heat and energy issues. His post got me thinking - part of the problem with cities today is that people are not aware of the zillions of ways their communities could be greener - and at the same time be more asthetically appealing, cooler, less costly, and just about every other positive adjective you could think of. Giving people interesting examples of cool, green ways to do things seems to almost always help. So here are a few to pass around this weekend...
The EastGate center in Harare Zimbabwe. This building is modeled after a termite mound and is entirely cooled by passive circulation of air. Folks in Phoenix could learn a thing or two from it.....
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