UK offshore wind capacity grows 80% in one year

Via Treehugger: With the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, the London Array, opening in the UK earlier this year, it’s probably no surprise that the country’s offshore wind capacity grew considerably. By eighty percent, in fact. As Renewable Energy World reports, the London Array was not the only large offshore installation driving this dramatic growth: In the […]

Lucid Stead – A Humble Cabin

A Humble Cabin In The Desert Becomes An Art Phenom Mirrors, LED lighting, and Arduino programming turn a 70-year old home into a contemporary work of art. There is a great history of artists and architects messing with houses. In the ’70s, Gordon Matta-Clark famously took a saw to a New Jersey home and split it in […]

Mindfulness Growing in Silicon Valley

We’ve touched on the yoga benefits for coders and programmers and it seems this trend is continuing throughout Silicon Valley. Check out this Wired article on mindfulness and meditation at Google and other tech companies: Chade-Meng Tan is perched on a chair, his lanky body folded into a half-lotus position. “Close your eyes,” he says. His voice is a hypnotic baritone, […]

Gandhi’s Third Eye