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View this email as a web page. OUR NEW SPRING LINE IS HERE It's true: Spring is coming. With longer days and warmer temps ahead, we'll soon be moving through a wider range of weather conditions, from snow squalls to rainstorms to warm, sunny days. To help you prepare, today we're introducing our Spring Line. It's a new season of lightweight clothing, crafted for movement and incorporating innovations in sustainable fibers and fabrics. From feather-weight shells that pack down small and provide full protection at a moment's notice, to fine-gauge merino wool and organic cotton shirts, shorts and pants that infuse comfort with style, you'll find a full range of apparel to move with you through the shoulder season into summer. Visit nau.com to check out the new arrivals for Men and Women. Your February issue of Off The Grid, with new content, stories and product previews, will arrive next Tuesday. This email was sent to you ...659 days ago
This week, David Macaulay -- illustrator and author of "Cathedral" and "The Way Things Work" -- flies us through the city he loves: Rome. He shares some early sketches for his book "Rome Antics," and talks about how he captures the dizzying, detail-packed, always-changing cityscape and the lives it contains. Meanwhile, Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, shares his invigorating take on making great cities. His mantra: "Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget." David Macaulay: Making "Rome Antics" Despite a love and fascination for Rome dating to his days as an architecture student, David Macaulay ("The Way Things Work") found the path to his book "Rome Antics" took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think Piranesi meets Escher), and rambling story lines, ...676 days ago
Every Schoolboy's Delight: Human Biogas, and More Besides. Things are moving. Slowly, for sure. But it's movement nevertheless. In China they've determined that come June, all shops will be forbidden from offering free plastic bags. Consumers are being asked to "go back to" using cloth bags and baskets. While a new renewable energy laboratory was launched in Uruguay and Norway pushes ahead with plans to capture CO2 in an attempt to 'clean' their coal industry. Read on to see what other steps are being taking to tidy up this lonely planet. Hamburg Floats Its Boat Construction of Hamburg's first fuel-cell powered hybrid passenger ferry, the 100-passenger Zemship (Zero ...676 days ago
INHABITAT There are 3 new posts in "INHABITAT" Hot Swedes Use Body Heat to Heat Train Station Move over sun and wind power… the next frontier in renewable energy is people power! And no, we don’t mean them being used as in soylent green, but rather, to use the energy generated from the movement of large numbers of pedestrians through an occupied space. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense: people power is cheap and plentiful. People are an infinitely renewable resource in a public space, since they are moving around and coming and going all day long. We’re excited to announce that plans are now afoot to take the heat energy generated by the movement of human beings and use it to heat a train station in Sweden. (more…) • Email to a friend • Related • View comments • ...676 days ago
AHHA - e-Healthcare Brief All you need to know Welcome to the 2008 series of e-healthcare brief, the weekly e-mailed newsletter of the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, the peak body representing the public health care sector. We hope you had a relaxing break and are looking forward to the full year of exciting work ahead. Through e-healthcare brief we aim to give you a succinct and lively overview of the most topical issues of importance to members and other healthcare professionals. To find out about our other products and services, such as the highly respected peer-reviewed journal, Australian Health Review, please visit our website. NOTICES 2008 Summer School of the European Observatory on Health ...
