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Teiden Kensaku

July 15, 2011 by VisionArc

In the Spring of 2011 VisionArc partnered with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design to brainstorm and develop energy monitoring concepts in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Japan is the only developed country in the world where household energy consumption exceeds industrial and business use. In […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: energy, Fukushima, Japan, Mobile, Network, Platform, Research, Resources, System, visionarc, world economic forum

Landscapes of Extraction

January 24, 2011 by VisionArc

On January 20th The Cooper Union in New York City opened an exhibition of the work of J. Henry Fair entitled Landscapes of Extraction: The Collateral Damage of the Fossil Fuels Industries. Presented by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, and the Irwin S. Chan School of Architecture, the large-scale, color photographs, accompanied by […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: energy, environmental crisis, mining, oil sands

Rebounding

August 31, 2010 by VisionArc

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 recently earned the distinction of having the hottest combined global land and ocean temperatures for the first half of the year since record keeping began in 1880. In New York City, where VisionArc’s office is based, the 2010 summer is finishing up as one of […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: climate change, efficiency, electricity, energy, green economy, green technology, paradox, rebound, temperature, weather