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• Yuka Yoneda

  7 Weird and Wonderful Uses For LED Lighting Technology
  It’s amazing to think that just a few years ago, many people thought of LEDs as nothing more than the tiny red lights in our laser pointers but my, how the times have changed! With more and more people realizing the energy-efficiency benefits of LED lighting, it seems that everything from headlights to TVs to [...]
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• Yuka Yoneda

  6 Green Ways to Ward Off the Winter Blues (a.k.a. Seasonal Affective Disorder)
  WINDOWHOP It’s easy to get depressed when your work schedule has you getting less sun than Edward Cullen (you’ve got the sickly pallor to match and it’s not nearly as sexy on you). If you’re lucky enough to at least have a window in your workspace, open those shades and try to angle your desk [...]
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• Molly Cotter

  Rock Restaurant is a Tropical Culinary Dream Perched in the Middle of the Ocean
  The restaurant itself can accomodate 14 people and includes a beautiful wrap-around terrace boasting panoramic views of turquoise water. Built entirely with rustic, local materials, the structure easily adapts to the ever changing nature of its environment. When the tide is low, an amazing tiered staircase greets visitors, leading them to the main dining room. Higher [...]
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• Bridgette Meinhold

  EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Utah Opens Its Striking New Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City
  The Utah Natural History Museum is the caretaker of 1.2 million objects from the fields of paleontology, archeology, ethnology, entomology, vertebrate zoology, mineralogy, botany and malacology. Not only does the museum work to preserve these precious artifacts, it also actively works to study their collection and educate residents, schoolchildren and visitors. The new museum was [...]
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• Jill Fehrenbacher

  VIDEO: A Look Back at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show and The Green Cars We Loved
  Last year I had the good fortune to attend the North American International Auto Show (or NAIAS) in Detroit – for the first time – and the timing couldn’t have been more perfect! I had never attended an auto show before, but I’ve heard that most SUV-focused auto shows of years past have not been [...]
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• Bridgette Meinhold

  Starbucks Opens New Reclamation Drive Thru Made From Recycled Shipping Containers
  Inspiration for the shipping container drive thru came from the company’s use of the containers to ship their coffee and tea from sources around the world. Rather than let the containers wallow after moving their goods, the brilliant minds in Seattle thought to put them to good use and so the Reclamation Drive Thru was [...]
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• Bridgette Meinhold

  Sparano + Mooney’s Beautiful Kimball Art Center Proposal Takes Inspiration From Aspens
  In this third installment of the Kimball Art Center Transformation proposals, we explore the design by the only local firm of the 5 design teams who presented. Sparano + Mooney, who have worked both locally and internationally, culled their inspiration from the Aspen tree, which is found throughout Utah and is a favorite for its [...]
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• Tafline Laylin

  Nicole Dextras’ Giant Words Made of Ice Depict the Folly of Environmental Destruction
  Dextras capitalizes on the notion that a single word or set of words juxtaposed against a certain backdrop can create a lasting impression that hopefully shifts people’s awareness of their environmental impact. Nothing is quite so striking as the word CONSUME built in ice and decorated with blue food coloring set against an ugly, half-finished [...]
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• Yuka Yoneda

  HOW TO: Make a Recycled Mustache Mirror
  MATERIALS: - A mirror (preferably one you already have) - Fabric paint (we used Tulip non-toxic paint in black) - Mustache templates - A clean, large ziplock bag (you could also use a clean sheet of saran wrap but it’s a little more unwieldy because of its self-stick properties) - A damp towel to wipe [...]
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• Yuka Yoneda

  6 Natural Hangover Remedies to Cure What Ails Ya on New Year’s Day
  BANANAS You might have heard that bananas are favored by athletes because they contain potassium and it’s that same reason that makes them great hangover cures. When you’re hungover, your body has lost a lot of potassium that needs to be replenished, so eating a banana when you wake up will provide much needed relief. [...]
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• Yuka Yoneda

  This Towering Holiday Tree is Made of 86 Shopping Carts
  Images © Graham King “The shopping cart tree symbolizes both generosity and abundance, as well as acknowledging those less fortunate where their whole world may be housed in a cart. We see shopping carts every day and take them for granted. Individually the beauty of an everyday object may become invisible, but in quantity you [...]
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• Bridgette Meinhold

  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the Largest LEED Platinum Non-Profit Building in the World
  The new campus occupies a site located in downtown Seattle across the street from the Space Needle. Formerly an asphalt parking lot, the site was restored with more than 40 percent of it turned into 2 acres of living roofs and native landscaping around the buildings. “The project started seven years ago with the initial [...]
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