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Ecology is the scienti!c study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount (biomass), number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems. Ecosystems are hierarchical systems that are organized into a graded series of regularly interacting and semi- independent parts (e.g., species) that aggregate into higher or- ders of complex integrated wholes (e.g., communities). Ecosystems are sustained by the biodiversity within them. Biodiversity is the full-scale of life and its processes, including genes, species and eco- systems forming line-ages that integrate into a complex and regener-ative spatial arrange- ment of types, forms, and interactions. Ecosystems create biophysical feedback mechanisms between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) components of the planet. "ese feed-back loops regulate and sustain local communities, con- tinental climate sys-tems, and global bi- ogeochemical cycles.Ecology is a sub- discipline of biol-ogy, the study of life. "e word “ecology” (“Ökologie”) was coined in 1866 by the German scien- tist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919). An- cient philosophers of Greece, including Hip- pocrates and Aristotle, were among the earli- est to record notes and observations on the natu- ral history of plants and animals. Modern ecology branched out of natural his-tory and matured into a more rigorous science in the late 19th century. Charles Darwin’s evolution- ary treatise including the concept of adaptation, as it was introduced in 1859, is a pivotal cornerstone in mod-ern ecological theory. Ecology is not synonymous with environment, environmentalism, natural history or environmental science. It is closely related to physiology, evolutionary biology, genetics and ethology.

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“What is art? Nature concentrated.” Honoré de Balzac

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2. ORGANIC APPLE

Conventional apples are sprayed with 36 types of pesticides, and the EW found that 91% of tested apples were contaminated.Even peeling a con-ventional apple won't completely eliminate chemical residue, so it's best to buy organic.!e 2 types of "ber in apples –soluble and insoluble–can reduce cholesterollevels and the risk of hardening of the arteries, heart attack, and stroke.Apples also keep blood sugar levels stable, and can help prevent kidney stones.Bonus:You'll "nd that organic apples taste sweeter than conventionally grown.

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Styrofoam is not biodegradable, which means it’s here forever. Next time, get your co#ee to go in a reusable co#ee mug or thermos. Skip the fast food and use glass and metal storage containers whenever possible.

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5.GARDENING IS THE WAY

If you'd like to see green plants, $owers, shrubs, and trees in your yard instead of just a broad expanse of lawn, you're on your way to an environmentally friendly landscape.Just be sure to follow "green" practices and opt for aow-maintenance l garden.!e low-maintenance garden bene"ts the environment in part because it requires much less water and fertilizer.But it also bene"ts you, the gardener, because there is far less weeding and dividing of plants to be done.

3. BAMBOO IS THE NEW COTTON

From Pinzon. Bamboo clothing is becoming more popular within the green community. Not only does bamboo make for soft and comfortablematerial, it’s eco-friendly. Bamboo grows wild with-out pesticides or fertilizers. It absorbs 3-4 times more water than cotton, and stays 2-3 degrees cooler, keeping you more comfort-able. Bamboo-organic clothes, towels, and sheets are great gift ideas for a greener wardrobe and home.

4.THE GREEN CLEANING

Many cleaning products contaminate our water and air, and contain can-cer- causing chemicals. If your family has a history of allergies, asthma, si-nusitis, and bronchitis, it’s especially important to reduce the use of chemi-cal cleaners in the home. Green home products are safer to handle, reduce indoor air pollutants, and do not harm water supplies. !e Citra Solv line of cleaners includes e#ective, green products. !ey contain no harmful chemicals, and even provide recipes on their labels for easy and inexpensive re"lls. You can make your own multipurpose cleaning products from white vinegar, baking soda, rubbing alcohol, and lemons to clean almost any areaof your home.

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Other regional and national gatherings are held throughout the year, in the United States and throughout the rest of the world.!e largest Rainbow Gatherings pose signi"cant logistical challenges, providing up to 30,000 people with food, water, sanitation, medical care, and order in remote settings.

Media coverage is often unfavorable, focusing on drug use, nudity, and the countercultural aspects of the assemblage. Nevertheless, the Gatherings have proven durable and international phenomena for 40 consecutive years.

Rainbow Gatherings and the Rainbow Family of Living Light (usually abbreviated to “Rainbow Family”) are an expression of a Utopian impulse, combined with bohemianism, hipster and hippie culture, with roots clearly traceable to the 1960s’ counterculture. Mainstream society is commonly referred to and viewed as “Babylon”, connoting the participants’ widely held belief that modern lifestyles and systems of government are un-healthy, unsustainable, exploitative and out of harmony with the natural systems of the planet. !e original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, and has been held annually in the United States from July 1 through 7 every year on National Forest land. !ere are no o%cial leaders, no formal structure, no o%cial spokespersons, and no membership. Some rainbow family participants make the claim that the family is the “largest non-organization of non-members in the world”.

In addition to referring to itself as a non-organization, the Rainbow Family of Living Light’s “non-members” also playfully call the movement a “disorganization”.However, there is a changing network of “focalizers” who take responsibility for passing on Rainbow information year-round, and serve as contacts if listed in the Rainbow Guide.In Rainbow lore you require only one thing to be a part of the Family - a belly button.

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Participants are expected to contribute money, labor, and/or material. All labor is voluntary and never for-mally compensated.

Aside from taking up collections (the “Magic Hat” in Rainbow parlance) for essential items purchased from the local community, there is little or no exchange of currency internally at a Gathering. !e primary prin-ciple is that necessities should be freely shared, while luxuries can be traded. A designated trading area is a feature at most (if not all) US Gatherings. It is called “trading circle” if it is circular and “barter lane” if it is linear. Frequently traded items include sweets, crystals, and handcrafts. Snickers bars have emerged as a semi-standardized unit of exchange at some gatherings.

The "rst Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes, a four-day event in Colorado in July 1972, was organized by youth counterculture “tribes” based in Northern California and the Paci"c Northwest.Twenty thousand people faced police roadblocks, threatened civil disobedience, and were allowed onto National Forest land. !is was intended to be a one-time event; however, a second gathering in Wyoming the following year materialized, at which point an an-nual event was declared.

!e length of the gatherings has since expanded be-yond the original four-day span, as have the number and frequency of the gatherings.Although groups from California and the Northwest region of the U.S. were heavily involved in focalizing (a Rainbow term for pro-viding a focus upon) the "rst o%cial (or uno%cial as some folks would say) Rainbow Gathering, the U.S. Southeast was strongly represented as well.

At least 2,600 people from throughout that region fo-calized at one the four Main Camps/Kitchens and pro-vided invaluable support for the 1972 Rainbow Gath-ering of the Tribes on Strawberry Lake, above Granby, Colorado. !ere was also strong representation from the U.S. Northeast and many other regions of the U.S. It was a truly National Rainbow Gathering.

Gatherings are loosely maintained by open, free form councils consisting of any “non-member” who wishes to be part of a council,[5] which use consensus process for making decisions. According to the Mini-manual, “Recognized Rainbow rules come from only one source, main Council at the annual national gatherings.”

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“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow .Old Native American Prophecy”

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!e mode of functioning of megalopolis based on the waste is in crisis. !e territories are slashed, asphyxiated, congested and pauperize their natural biodiversities. As architect and urban architect and in association with ecologists, we have to attempt an acceleration of the natural process of cicatrizing and resilience of the ecosystems by pluridisciplinary techniques of ecological engineering. Faced with the depletion of the natural resources, the destruction of the ecosystems, the reduction of the biodiversity, the pollution of the water, the concentration of the greenhouse e#ect gas and the global warming, the renewable energies (solar, thermal and photovoltaic energies, wind driven energy, hydraulic, osmotic, geothermal, tidal thermo-station, tidal power energy, biomass, fuel cells) and biotechnologies (bio-mimicry, physio-structure, phylo remediation, bio-remediation, genetic) are e#ective tools to re-naturalise the next Ecopolis.

Researching the human nature, the underlying objective is to intensify the ability of the architectural project to improve the environment, to protect it, and even to restore the biodiversity. !is is to enable to reimburse and to stabilise our ecologic debt by minimising the human print and to do so that the nature can be more spontaneous and signi"cant on the concerned site. In this framework, the main raw material of the architect is the living as dynamic and functional element of his construction. He can then tend to positive eco-compatibility of the building in the ecosystem by producing itself oxygen and electricity, by recycling CO2 and waste, by purifying the water and by integrating the ecologic alcoves or organic corridors to feed and house the fauna and the $ora naturally present or passing.

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2009 : 800 MILLION OF URBAN FARMERS FOR RESPONSIBLE ECO-CITIES

!e world of fast-food and frozen food is over! !e urban keen interest of the beginning of our Cen-tury turns toward the garden $at bringing back the countryside in our overcrowded cities "ghting from now on for a community urban agriculture able to contribute to the durability of the city and to rethink the food production.

On the roofs, terraces, balconies, in the hollow of the non-built public spaces, in the interior yards and the suspended greenhouses, the eco-warrior aspires to escape from its competitive and consumeristic universe imposed by the laws of the market. He desires to cultivate its immediate landscape so as to better take root in the ground by creating his own ecologic and alimentary biodiversity. !e consumer becomes from then on producer and the garden inhabitant !

From the Parisian « worker gardens » to the « community gardens » of New York going though Musco-vite « vegetable squares », eight hundred million of urban farmers, i.e. more than one human being out of ten, consume nowadays chlorophyllous products from these cosmopolitan kitchen gardens. !ese new gardens, aware of the emergency to reduce our fuel consumption and the necessity to modify our behaviour facing the climatic changes, decrease thus their environmental impact and build eco-responsible cities on a community way.

2025 : 5.5 BILLION OF CITY SLICKERS FACING THE FOOD CHALLENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY

According to the PNUD (Programme of the United Nations for the Development), the worldwide ur-ban population will go from 3.1 billion of inhabitants in 2009 up to 5.5 billion of inhabitants within 2025. Looking for a positive energetic assessment, the contemporary city aims within "fteen years at producing cleanly and intensively more energy than it consumes so as to pack this urban exodus! It develops therefore the urban agriculture to become food self-su%cient by recycling at the same time its liquid waste by phyto-puri"cation, its solid waste in fertilizers by composting and by producing energy by biomass, photovoltaic cells and other renewable energies (thermic solar, photovoltaic solar, wind, tide-turbine energies…).

In order to avoid the asphixiation of the planet and the feeding of its 9 billion of inhabitants within 2050, it deals thus with reinventing the traditional energetic pattern between the city and the coun-tryside between western countries, emerging countries and developing countries. !is sums up as following: on the one hand import of natural and food resources, and on the other hand export of waste and pollution.

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TAICHUNG ECOPOLIS, TAIWAN

For the hundredth birthday of the creation of “Taiwan R.O.C.”, the main aim of the Taichung City Government is to honour the local building traditions and symbolize the new Taiwan dynamics into economic, political, social and cultural achievements.International model of the green building of the 21st century, the innovative and pioneering design of the Bionic Arch is part of the new master plan “Taichung Gateway – Active Gateway City”, the future urban oasis for lifestyle, innovation, culture and biodiversity in the heart of Central Taiwan.

!e green tower combines and surpasses the nine major indicators de"ning a green building by law, and intensi"es the relation between the building site and the surrounding Taichung Gateway Park, including an environmental integration of the park and the green land, the integration of green vertical platforms, sky gardens and living façades, interaction between human and natural environments. It ac-tively contributes to the development of the use of new sustainable energies (solar and wind generated power, coupled with botanical and bio-technologies), emphasizes cohabitation and respectful attitude in order to reach even higher standards than regular green buildings.

Raising awareness of climate changes and the need for environmental protection, Taiwan Tower will become the new landmark of sustainability, 100% self-su%cient with CO2 zero-emission,

1. THE SITE!e Project site is included in the Taichung Gateway City. !e site area stretches from east : Road 30M-83, to west : Park Avenue 3, and is extended from north to south along the border of the Cultural Business District, south to the north border of Green Space 4, and extends on the east side the enclosed park 139. !e site area is approximately 4.4 hectares but the footprint of the Bionic Arch does not exceed one hectare and respects the oblique line for setback distance from Road 30M-83.

Taiwan Tower is centered at the intersection of the two main axis of the new master plan: “Park Avenue 3” from North to South and the pedestrian “Green Corridor” linked the two R&D districts from East to West.!e concept of the tower is the development of a vertical landscape in the continuity of the park, like a green double ogive arch, keeping the perspective views clear between the main districts.

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!e whole room program is superposed vertically as a vertical urban forest recycling the atmosphere and the fog of Taichung. All facilities and equipments (exhibition rooms, lobby, information center, lobby elevator, shops, restaurants, observatories, laboratories and o%ces) will be transformed into real suspended gardens in the sky.

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Anti-Smog is a parasite project set up on the post-industrial urban structure of the Petite Ceinture and the canal de l’Ourcq in the 19th Parisian district. It is a public equipment dedicated to promote the last innovations on the theme of sustainable development in urban area in terms of housing or transport. Its role is to apply all the avant-garde renewable energies so as to "ght against the Parisian smog. !is smog (smoke + fog) is a bluish to reddish haze. It is the result of the water condensing (the fog) on the suspended dust and the presence of ozone in the troposphere.

URBAN VECTOR XYZAnti-Smog is thus an ecological prototype of auto-su%cient, depolluting architecture, reactive to its environment and is set up on an Euclidean urban vector with three axes:

In X, the canal de l’Ourcq :With the canal Saint-Denis, the bassin de la Villette and the canal Saint-Martin, the canal de l’Ourcq constitutes the network of the Parisian canals, long of 130 km and that belongs to the city of Paris. It is a linear and emblematic site suspended on the water between the Rotonde de Nicolas Ledoux located place Stalingrad and the Parc de la Villette punctuated by the red folies of the American architect Bernard Tschumi. !is canal de l’Ourcq begins at the second Bassin de la Villette by a standing bridge, of 85 tons built in 1885. It measures 30 meters of width and 730 meters of length. In the 28th Century, its "rst function was to constitute a reserve of drinking water for the city of Paris but also a reserve of navigable water for the canal Saint Martin. Until the 70’s, the district has been strongly marked by the industries and the activities linked to the use of the waterway. Today, our post-industrial period of leisure stigmatises the banks with thematic activities related to the culture of water such as Paris Plage.

In Z, the factory of urban heating:!is monolithic and obsolete factory of the Compagnie Parisienne de Chau#age Urbain (CPCU) planted with its white smokestack pierces the horizon of the Buttes Chaumont. It is dedicated to disappear. According to the urbanism plan, it will be replaced by a building of housing and a public garden of 1500 m& enabling to relay out the bearing vaulting of the petite ceinture in art and craft shops. CPCU is integrated in the underground of the capital city. !is company has helped all along the 20th Century to limit a part of the imports of fossil energy by producing urban heating (steam) and electricity from the cogeneration and burning of waste.

In XYZ :At the crossing of the $uvial and train ways, the project Anti-Smog sets up in the heart of this vector with 3 directions. It is composed of two distinct museum entities with positive energetic results, which means producing more energy that they consume. On the one hand, the Solar Drop is a superstructure in polyester and in photovoltaic cells that treadles the « Cage », the double bridge with metallic braces crossing the canal de l´Ourcq. On the other hand, the Wind Tower is a helical structure incrusted of wind machines "xed vertically in the future municipal garden on the edge of the water.

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2100, A LARGE CROWD OF ECOLOGICAL REFUGEES

Further to the anthropogenic activity, the climate warms up and the ocean level increases. According to the principle of Archimedes and contrary to preconceived notions, the melting of the arctic ice-$oe will not change the rising of the water exactly as an ice cube melting in a glass of water does not make its level rise. However, there are two huge ice reservoirs that are not on the water and whose melting will transfer their volume towards the oceans, leading to their rising. It deals with the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland on the one hand, and the continental glaciers on the other hand. Another reason of the ocean rising, that does not have anything to do with the ice melting is the water dilatation under the e#ect of the temperature.

According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). !e international scienti"c scene assets that a temperature elevation of 1°C will lead to a water rising of 1 meter. !is increase of 1 m would bring ground losses emerged of approximately 0.05% in Uruguay, 1% in Egypt, 6% in the Netherlands, 17.5% in Bang-ladesh and up to 80% approximately in the atoll Majuro in Oceania

If the "rst meter is not very funny with more than 50 million of people a#ected in the developing countries, the situation is worse with the second one. Countries like Vietnam, Egypt, Bangladesh, Guyana or Bahamas will see their most inhabited places swamped at each $ood and their most fertile "elds devastated by the invasion of salt water damaging the local ecosystems. New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Hô Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Miami, Lagos, Abidjan, Djakarta, Alex-andria… not les that 250 million of climatic refugees and 9% of the GDP threatened if we not build protections related to such a threat. It is the demonstration in$icted to reluctant spirits by a clima-tological study of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and that challenges our imagination of eco-conception!

!e water rising being not written in the agenda of the Grenelle agreements on environment in France, it is primordial in terms of environmental crisis and climatic exodus to pass from now on from a strat-egy of reaction in emergency to a strategy of a adaptation and long-lasting anticipation. It is surprising, whereas some islands prepare their disappearing to see that the management of the rising of the ocean level does not seem to worry the governments beyond measure.

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WATER, A COMMON GOOD FOR THE PLANET!

More than one billion of people do not have any access to drinking water. !ree thousands of people die everyday from having consumed polluted water. !e water is thus not a good. It should belong to everybody. Many non governmental organisations as well as the PNUD (Programme of the United Nations for the Development) "ght for the idea that water is a “common good”. It must be highly considered and be part of a di#erent management that is not commercial, connecting public and pri-vate organisms not only in national and regional frameworks but also on the worldwide scale inside UN or a new specialised “ad hoc” institution.

Even by taking into account the increase of the worldwide population (9.2 billion within 2050 ac-cording to UN), the quantity of soft water accessible on surface represents 40 000 km3 per year. As the world consumes nowadays only 5500 km3 of water (from which 70% for agriculture, 20% for industry and 10% for the domestic consumption), it meets widely the needs of the planetary socie-ties. Contrary to prejudices, the quantity of water does not count. What is important, is the ability of the societies to build the access to drinking water unequally spread on Earth, especially between the North and the South. Actually, only nine countries share together 60% of the annual worldwide $ow!

!e appeal made during the World Forum of Water in Istanbul at the beginning of March 2009 has to be understood in this framework: “!e resources dedicated to water are minuscule compared to the spending invested in the "ght against the gas emissions with greenhouse e#ects or the "nancial crisis (…). !e water should be in the heart of the policies of agriculture, energy, health, infrastruc-tures, education (…). !e managers of water are convinced of that, but they do not take the deci-sions. !e heads of state and government have to seize with it” (Olcay Ünver, coordinator of the "nal report of the Forum of Istanbul).

DRINK AND MOVE CLEANLY FOR EVERYONE?

In the European thought about the adaptation to the climatic change and the establishment of the qualitative and quantitative degradation of the water resources, the supplying for everyone of drink-ing water and the boost of the transport by waterways (low CO2 transmitter) are the two new eco-logical and worldwide challenges about the water. In 2009, the ministers of 120 countries, scientists and ecologist "ghters participated in Istanbul to the World Forum of Water (as above mentioned) to study the means to avoid a water crisis which according to UN and the World Water Council, will a#ect about half of the worldwide population within 2030.

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Last year, we had one of our "rst encounters with a home literally made from trees, using the art of weaving (and sometimes grafting) trees together to form structures — a practice ecological designer, Richard Reames, called “Arcorsculpture.” !e Fab Tree Hab was one of the design entries for the Index: awards, emerging from the genius of a crew including MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and our friend, Javier Arbona of Archinect. !e project description emphasized consideration of whole systems (and ecosystems) in creating a truly sustainable built environment, rather than a piecemeal approach that could yield uncertain longterm outcomes.

!is is not exactly garden variety as building strategies go, but it’s certainly among the most ornate, natural, and “green.” German landscape architect, Rudolf Doernach, used techniques like this in what he broadly called “biotecture” or “agritecture.” Like permaculture, these methods are set up to be largely self-sustaining, meaning that once the initial planting and early training of the branches is complete, the structures continue to grow on their own, requiring minimal external energy while providing maximum agricultural yield (as in the Fab Tree Hab, which is meant to provide food for the inhabitants). Permaculture is also about inclusion, accessibility, and mutual service between humans and the natural world. With proper knowledge, you should be able to grow your own house!

“There are houses built in trees and then there are treehouses”

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As the Australian Rainforest Information Centre points out, these are the ultimate in low-cost, low-maintenance, zero-energy homes:“Doernach’s creations produce incredible savings compared to inert construction/insulation materials and have great potential for employment, given that say, 10 million homes have 100,000 hectares of plantable surface suitable for food cultivation. Insulation, energy-savings, noise-reduction, dust suppression, carbon dioxide conversion, oxygen pro-duction and psychological bene"ts are all positive by-products of planted walls.”Richard Reames and Konstantin Kirsch have both explored the self-growing treehouse with the Treedome project, designing latticeworks of tree branches and growing them into cylindrical, multi-room dwellings which become fully-enclosed botanical domes. Fruit and other foods grow on the roof and walls, and the waste generated by the inhabitants becomes nourishment for the structure (a closed-loop system in which, as Bill McDonough says, waste=food).Irish Architect, Urban Planner, Permaculture Designer and Ecologist, Declan Kennedy, presented a paper and lecture for the 1996 International Permaculture Conference in Australia on “designing for a sustainable future,” which includes excellent history and analysis about the evolution of ecological architecture.“If, until the mid-90s, planners were satis"ed with achieving an optimal combination of outside and self-generated supply and disposal with water, energy and the necessary materials, current innovation aims higher still: zero-energy buildings are well on the way to becoming “mega-out.””

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“What we are aiming at now are buildings that produce more energy than they consume,that is really designing for sustainability. Water-saving technologies should make way for self-contained water cycles, or failing that, wastewater-free buildings which produce compost and “industrial water,” and green spaces that produce fresh food without re-quiring much input,thus becoming edible parks.!e emphasis is not so much on self-su%ciency as on sustainable husbandry, orienting one’s production and consumption on the carrying capacity of the land.”“If energy, water, wastewater and refuse disposal rates continue to climb as they have over the past few years, every project which manages to lower running costs will become increasingly economically attractive in the future. “Non-ecological living” will become more expensive, be it food, cars or buildings.

!e motto is “using together instead of consuming individually.” A real opportunity for the way ahead lies in the plummeting costs of information technology and in direct links between groups with similar goals through global communication networks. !ese options will allow us not only to exchange information more cheaply and quickly, but also help us locate the right car, bicycle or building at the right time, in the right place and at the right price.”And this is the crux of modern ecological architecture. Rather than referencing a time before computer-generated building plans, industrial mass production, and smart home technology, ecological architecture can now embrace these advancements while staying true to a whole-systems approach to design.By placing as much value on the services nature o#ers as those bestowed upon us by high-tech software and gadgetry, we optimize our design palette and gain utmost variation, $exibility, and sustainability for the future of the built environment.

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FlexibleLove® furniture incorporates an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available recycled materials. Flexi-bleLove furniture, such as FlexibleLove Earth 16, are made from recycled paper and recycled wood waste, and are produced using pre-existing manufacturing processes in order to reduce their overall impact on the environ-ment.

!e name “FlexibleLove” was derived from the concept of a ‘$exible love-seat’ – seating that could hold from one to as many as sixteen individuals; changing length and shape with a simple pull at each end. A honeycomb structure, used throughout the entire FlexibleLove line, produces an accordion-like result that allows each piece to be extended and collapsed with ease.

!e 2010 line includes FlexibleLove Virgin 20, FlexibleL-ove Earth 16, FlexibleLove White 16, and FlexibleLove Earth 8. FlexibleLove was designed by Taiwanese designer Chishen Chiu, and is manufactured by Pinzaan Company Limited.

It’s a little embarrassing when a crowd of friends descend on your doorstep and you don’t have enough chairs to seat them all. However, if you have a FlexibleLove chair - you won’t have anything to worry about. !is fabulously func-tional chair = is constructed almost entirely from recycled cardboard and recycled wood waste.

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At "rst glance, the design of the FlexibleLove chair seems quite simple, but once you see how quickly and easily it can be expanded and contracted, you really appreciate the complexity of its design. !e unique qualities of its accordion and honeycomb structure allow it to be stretched and folded into a multitude of shapes and lengths - creating surprisingly strong seating. To change its length and shape, you simply pull each end – much like playing an accordion. For a chair that o#ers this much $exibility and adaptability, it’s hard to believe it is made almost entirely of recycled cardboard.

How does cardboard manage to hold the weight of up to 16 people? !eir body weight is divided evenly between the hundreds of cells contained in the chair. And, although it is strong enough to support the weight of all those people, it won’t support unbalanced weights so don’t let the kids jump or walk on it and obviously don’t use it outside or near "re!

!e FlexibleLove was designed by Chise Chiu, a young designer from Taiwan. He discovered a factory in suburban Taipei that made honeycomb-structured pieces of recycled paper. !is gave him the idea that the qualities of rigid honeycomb-structured cardboard could be used to create $exible furniture. His name, ‘FlexibleLove’, was derived from the concept of a ‘$exible love-seat’ – that is, seating that can hold up to sixteen people simply by altering its shape and length. Each of his pieces is constructed using the same honeycomb structure, to allow for quick and easy extension and collapse.

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Flexible Love can expand to hold up to16 people! Read on, you’ll be amazed at what this single piece of furniture can doWhen the FlexibleLove chair is "rst used, about two millimeters (about 1/10th of an inch) will bend, but these marks across the surface will eventually level o#, leaving a velvet-like appearance. It is also recommended that the chair be folded regularly to minimize the signs of use, and moistening the surface slightly before folding will also help to achieve a better look.

As the name suggests, the FlexibleLove model 8 can accommodate up to eight people. When folded it measures 25 x 21.8 x 5.1 inches and it stretches to 25 x 21.8 x 140.4 inches. It can support weight up to 2116.44 pounds (averaging out at about 264 pounds per person) and weighs 28.66 pounds.!e FlexibleLove model 16 will seat up to 16 people and when folded measures 25 x 21.8 x 8.8 inches. Weighing 55.12 pounds, it can be stretched to a length of 280.8 inches and will support body weight of up to 4232.87 pounds.

Currently available for sale in the U.K from FlexibleLove UK the model 8 is priced at GBP220 (approx. US$347 at time of publication) and the model 16 is priced at GBP390 (approx. US$615 at time of publication). Not a bad price for eco-friendly, strong pieces of furniture that o#er adaptable, $exible seating.

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A myriad of used sheets of paper that are recuperated, recycled and reused in a completely new way by the new Taiwanese designer Chishen Chiu for an extendible chair that can also be compact and multiform to host anywhere from 1 to 16 people! A group of good friends, a soccer team, a school class…FlexibleLove furniture incorporates an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available recycled materials. FlexibleLove furniture, such as FlexibleLove Earth 16, are made from recycled paper and recycled wood waste, and are produced using pre-existing manufacturing processes in order to reduce their overall impact on the environment.

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8&8#%$4&2"'*(:$76;<=$6>?=>@$A6;6>B!e Pap(i)er Fashion exhibition is an attempt to exhibit research into and enjoyment of creation. With the ATOPOS Collection of American throwaway paper dresses of the sixties as its starting point, the exhibition introduces its visitors to something that has hardly been researched and is almost unknown to the broader public. !e exhibition is registered in a historical context which examines new open ways to approach questions regarding the invention of raw material and textile, and consequently garment manu-facture know-how, such as for non-woven materials. !e focus is in fact on a particularly innovative non-woven material, paper, as well as paper-like materials.

Paper, which was invented in China in approximately 100 A.D., has been used to manufacture garments and accessories in various cultures in the past and also in modern creation. !e exhibition examines the use of paper in contemporary fashion practices through design, art, advertising, video, catwalk shows and the actual creations of some of the most innovative designers of our times including Paco Rabanne, Issey Miyake, Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Akris.

At the same time it places particular emphasis on the ephemeral, fragile, humble and poetic nature of paper garments, juxtaposing modern creation with paper garments from diferent cultures and civilisations. !e exhibition is developed in seven diferent sections within the exhibition space of Museum Bellerive elevating the di#erent aspects of the subject.

!e exhibition does not conform to speciic models, but seeks alternative ways of presentation. It is deined as an exhibition that wants to keep changing venues, objects, staging and visual angles. In this way ATOPOS has the opportunity of continuing the research it began two years ago.

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1."LET'S GO" A PAPER DRESS. Published by Lincoln Mercury

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2.!Gouache on Yellow Pages Dress" (USA, 1968) by Howard Hodgkin, 2010, for ATOPOS Contemporary

Visual Culture, © the artist

3.Walter Van Beirendonck for La Redoute at MoMu

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“Art Basel Miami and the satellite art fairs draw galleries, artists, and collectors from all over the world for one week in early December, to showcase the latest artworks, instal-lations, and parties in sunny Miami. Inhabitat was on hand to check out the fairs, and round up some of our favorite pieces by artists who use found objects and recycled ma-terials”

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Bu#alo-based Jason D’Aquino’s tiny pencil drawings on vintage matchbook covers sold out from !e Shop’s booth at Scope Art Fair. !e miniaturist creates "nely detailed drawings on found objects such as matchbooks, antique ledgers, calendars and lea$ets. D’Aquino often reminds his viewers of the past life of the found materials he uses by fuses elements from the original pieces with his drawings.Jason D’Aquino is a miniaturist. He create his work on an incredibily small scale,many work not exceeding one inch by one inch in domension.D’Aquino chooses to work on found surfaces such as strike-on-front matchbooks, 18th century anmal skin vellum and antique ledger pages.His search for these found “canvases” has led him to strange corners of the world and to some unique treasure. He recently unearthed a hand-quilled,illustrated whaling manuscript from St.Petersburg Russia,which made its way to christies auction house in New York City

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We’ve covered artists who use old x-ray "lm in the past, but haven’t seen it used quite this way. Artist Matthew Cox takes the x-rays as a base, then hand stitches colorful textures directly onto them, imagining the $esh of the subjects of the initial x-rays, down to hairstyle and eye color.!e fairs during Art week in Miami are always inspiring, and we were happy to see so many artists using sustainable materials this year!

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London based Sarah Bridgland obsessively collects old greeting cards, letterpress and stationary. She then creates fragile sculptures by snipping di#erent elements from the yel-lowed papers, toothpicks and glue.Sarah Bridgland’s diminutive paper creations inhabit the territory between sculpture and collage. Delicately fashioned out of second-hand ephemera collected from junk shops and fragments of Bridgland’s own printed media, they create spaces where the real and the imagined co-exist, where fact and "ction collide. Each piece is a myriad of textures, shapes and lettering, re$ecting Bridgland’s interest in the formal concerns of the Russian avant-garde and Constructivism.

Brian Dettmer, already an Inhabitat favorite, showed new work at PULSE Art Fair. Using old books, Dettmer carves away at the pages to make innovative sculptures. By cut-ting certain pages and text away, he juxtaposes the books content together, creating one harmonizing piece. His vintage medical journal sculpture was a favorite at the art fair.

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From afar, Sarah Frost’s two massive pieces, “Error Correct” and “Sign O#” appear to be tex-tured topographies of beige and black dots.But get a little closer, and you’ll "nd the all too familiar recycled keys from the clunky comput-ers of yesteryear. It wasn’t long ago that computer keys weren’t the sleekly designed equipment that they are today.

Frost collects the obsolete keys and arranges them in gradating beiges, whites and tans, infuses in specks of black. !e resulting pieces look like a star cluster, while also putting the massive amounts of unusable computer keys to good use.

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Water-Powered Clock

From Bedol. !is clock can't be anything but en-vironmentally friendly. Ditch the batteries; water and a splash of lemon juice are all this clock needs for six to eight weeks of perfect time-keeping.

Price: $19.99

Pooh Stationery

From Mr. Ellie. You can't get much more organic than this! Mr. Ellie's paper products are made of 100% recycled materials: 75% elephant dung, 25% post consumer paper, natural vegetable bind-ing agents, and water-soluble salt dyes. !at's right, elephant dung — smell not included!

Price: $18.00

Natural Crayon Rocks

From Clementine Art. Made from chemical-free soy and packaged in 80% recycled materials, these small, rock-shaped crayons are perfect for little hands to grip, color, and create.

Price: $9.99

Ice Cream Ball

From UCO. Kids love playing with balls. Kids love ice cream. Combine the two and you have a play-powered ice cream maker. Just load the ingredients, toss around with kids for 20 minutes, and voila! You've made a pint of ice cream to share!

Price: $49.95

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!is sturdy recycled wine glasses feel weighty in your hand and are a staple item for every household.Each glass is made from 100% recycled urban waste glass, which is collected all over Europe and recombined at a high temperature. Sold as a set of 6 or gift boxed in a set of 2.

Price $ 31.00

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E#ortless gardening right on your kitchen countertop! Just "ll the FreshLife Automatic Sprouter with water, add seeds, plug it in and in 5 to 8 days you will be enjoy-ing fresh and organic home grown wheatgrass, micro-greens and sprouts~it really IS that easy!It takes anywhere from 4-7 days to grow your own sprouts! An entire spectrum of $avors await as you pro-duce sprouts of radish, broccoli, cabbage, garlic, onion, sun$ower, wheatgrass, fenugreek, buckwheat, lettuce, mung bean, alfalfa, clover, sweet pea and much, much more...

Price: $99.99

7E sound isolation earphones with inte-grated mic S/M/L interchangeable earcaps Felt-lined recycled metal lightweight round carrying case (2.25" in diameter x .75" high)

Can earbuds be awesome looking, too? You betcha! !e sound chamber is individually crafted with sustainably sourced hardwoods, like Cherry and Walnut or choose Bamboo (when we have them~darned hard to keep on the shelf ).As with all of its wood sound systems and ac-cessories, for every tree used in production, one hundred trees are re-planted (100:1) through an ongoing partnership with the Arbor Day

Foundation. China Price $ 69.99

While there are plenty of opinions about the BEST single malt scotch available, there is only one way to serve it up! And that is with Soap-stone Ice Rocks. Our reusable soapstone cubes chill your "ne liquor without diluting the superior tasting notes that make it unique!

Price: $19.99

An elegant gift any time of year for your favorite gardener is our Bonsai Box Japanese Elm Specimen Tree! Given the right amount of TLC this Grey-bark Elm or Zelkova ser-rata has the potential to become an endearing hobby.

Price: $30.00

!is sculptural tabletop piece is a smaller version of the Egg$at Large for cozy spaces. Holds coins, keys, fruit, and other treasures. Individual units can be joined to form a landscape. Let us know how you use your Egg-$at! Design: Josh Jakus 2007.

Price: $25.00

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