Links for 08-05-2007
Virtual reality walker interface, naming and shaming energy gluttons, green planning in Seattle…
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1 – Stringwalker enables realistic walking in Virtual worlds
“String Walker uses eight strings actuated by motor-pulley mechanisms mounted on a turntable.” It’s so ridiculously simple and lo-fi it might actually catch on.
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2 – Spy plane employed to shame owners of heat-loss homes
“Spy-in-the-sky cameras are being used to identify householders who are wasting the most energy and to shame them into turning the central heating down.” Great motive, but damn it, more bloody cameras?
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3 – The Green Factor: A Landscaped Envelope for Urban Buildings
“…the Green Factor is part of Seattle’s plan to bring more greenery to the streets of commercial districts, and to compensate for the limitations urban density imposes on green space.” Sounds good.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Future green building must take account of the “green washing” that seems to be accelerating throughout the real estate market place. I’ve seen repeated use of words like “green”
and “stewardship” across the board. I’ve seen some Realtors using the word “green” in their ads, knowing that awareness is elevating by the media and they use that hype to drive
more traffic to their listings. I’ve ran across great sites such as http://www.ListedGreen.com ( Listed Green ) that screen developers and realtors so as to minimize the “green washing” effect.
Some blogs have been overused in this regard as well. Hopefully, the general public can sift through this green hype and really see the changes that builders and developers have
to do to reduce our carbon footprint.