Waste = Food. Every product should either turn into compost, or into a new material. Cradle to Cradle is a green strategy that production companies make profit with. Cause what a waste to throw away your expensive base material. Due to lack of mostly chemical knowledge, companies have untill now produced very few products following the c2c protocol. Here’s the harvest.
Wat car can run 1467 kilometers on 1 liter of gasoline? Eco-Runner II can. Very handy if you wish to drive a motorised banana. But still. It makes me feel that technology for private cars is stuck in the stone age. My car runs 12 kilometers on 1 liter. My 160 kilo motorbike can only make it 18 to 1. Eco-Runner proves we should do better than that.
It looks like a 6 wheel 300% stretched Ferrari. But Superbus is public transport at 250 km/hr. The man behind the wheel is our first astronaut Wubbo Ockels. “Superbus can pick you up at any time, so no wait. Directions are previously combined to fill the luxury seats.” The first electric drive to Beijing has been postponed. We’ll have to wait and see of this bus is super or shaky.
On the path to finding alternative energy, we’re exploring humans as a source. I do not mean illusionist Hans Klok who is always surrounded by wind, but energy from heated heads in stations, movements on a dancefloor and people pushing doors. Fabric is made that turns motion into energy. Now we have to think of what part of a human has friction and moves a lot…
“The state of our climate cannot be measured by the size of mankind, but by the size of earth,” says Salomon Kroonenberg in his book. We are arrogant in thinking we are warming the globe. It’s earth’s spring that’s doing that. Humans are just making a difference in how cold the next ice age in 23.000 year will be. Ah, and if mankind will live to experience it.
Rotterdam will be home to the world’s first sustainable dance club. Inside WATT, architects Kossmann en De Jong built sustainable features like an energy-generating dance floor, zero-waste bars and a water wall that shows rain water from basins on the roof flow via the toilets eventually into the sewer?! WATT opens September 4th, so will it still be first?
“Parking lots, do they count as spacial places?” is what urbanist Evelien de Munck Mortier wants to know. Drive your car to her Autohotel and be part of the answer. Autohotel has stopped at the Dutch city of Culemborg and Amsterdam last year. Coming August The Hague is the new place between come and go. PS that’s my ‘78 Kadett shining on the right side.
Each year 200 wings of Dutch windmills turn into surplus material. The wind- and weatherproof wings make excellent building material for a playground with huge entrance posts, a labyrinth and panna goal posts, thought waste architects 2012. Building has begun. This summer Wikado will open it’s grounds in Rotterdam.
While we dare now say the Dutch team is best kandidate for winning the Euro 2008, Eindhoven’s GRO design has won a match of their own. They are the industrial designers you never hear of, but make almost everything in this world for other names (say Nokia). Now they built something to call their own, and what a Beautiful Game it has become.
Wise people told them it’s too early for a speedboat solely on solar energy. So here it is, the Czeers MK1. The black carbon fibre racer is built for say Dubai, where carbon is fluent in fuel and where the überrich people of our planet are. “Like in the development of planes and cars, we believe innovative technique starts at the top of the market”, says Nils Beers of Netherlands-based Czeers.
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