Customized to fit each project and development Urban Green Energy has created an innovative clean solution for a street lamp. Lamps will be placed in sunny or windy locations and suited to fit the needs of a two-lane road, four-lane road, and parking lot.

Via designitgreener

Architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users.

via TED

The long anticipated 85-acre park designed by architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, at the edge of the desolate Brooklyn Bridge landscape, is now underway, thank the BK gods! Sections of the park covering piers one and six are expected to open by the end of 2009. Complete with beaches, recreation, playgrounds, fishing piers, canals, paddling waters and restored wetlands. View image of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Plan. Brooklyn Stand Up!

via Cool Hunting, images via Brooklyn Bridge Park

William Baldwin discusses some of the realities and players involved the electric vehicle market and some of their hidden reasons for making the Green transition. Baldwin states "In this country environmentalism is a religion, not a science." Being environmentally friendly and the designing and marketing of sustainable products does have its benefits, but as we all have a social responsibility to be environmentally aware and reduce our footprint, are we just merely paying tribute to the "Fad" of Green or to the science. Are we all just pawns in what is no longer a trend, but a religion as Baldwin suggests? Thoughts?

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via Forbes.com

German based architects J. Mayer architects together with Art+Com Berlin were commissioned to develop a permanent exhibition on the topic sustainability for the volkswagen autostadt (car city) in wolfsburg, germany.

via: Best House Design