Who really pays for tariffs?

While politicians often frame tariffs as a way to punish other countries, they actually hit domestic consumers and businesses hardest. Whether they’re facing higher grocery bills or disruptions in manufacturing, Americans will feel the strain. The Canadian prime minister encouraged his compatriots to consider boycotting U.S. orange juice following Trump’s tariff threats.

Under both Trump and Biden, US oil and gas production surged to record highs, despite very different energy goals ||

 

The United States is producing more oil and natural gas today than ever before, and far more than any other country. So, what roles did the Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris administrations play in this surge?

 Our London building sets new standards for sustainability and innovation, and raises the bar for future office buildings around the world.  “This building is designed to encourage cooperation and collaboration, and that’s what makes for a successful business.” 

– Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg offers to step in after Trump withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement

 New York, New York - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that his foundation will step in to fund the UN climate change body after President Donald Trump declared the US would withdraw from the Paris Agreement for the second time.           Read more

Eco Wave Power Receives Final Permit from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for First Onshore Wave Energy Project at Port of Los Angeles ||

Los Angeles, CA – November 18, 2024 –Eco Wave Power Global AB (Nasdaq: WAVE) (“Eco Wave Power” or the “Company”), a leading provider of onshore wave energy technology, is pleased to announce it has received the final Nationwide Permit (NWP) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its groundbreaking wave energy project at AltaSea’s premises at the Port of Los Angeles.

This milestone marks a significant step forward in the development of Eco Wave Power’s pioneering wave energy project, which is set to become the first onshore wave energy installation in the United States. 

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Shifting When and Where Electricity is Used Can Avoid Gigatons of Carbon Emissions

 How electricity is produced and when it is used has a huge impact on how clean it is. As such, marginal emissions, which result from a power plant turning on or increasing its production to meet increased demand, represent substantial potential carbon reductions. A newly expanded dataset from the tech solution nonprofit WattTime suggests as much as 9 gigatons could be avoided per year. 

The nonprofit works with major corporations like Microsoft, Toyota and Salesforce to shift when electricity is used and where it is purchased while optimizing grid decarbonization.

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Climate change is increasing hurricane wind speeds, study finds

 Climate change strengthened the maximum wind speeds of Atlantic hurricanes by an average of 18 mph during the past five years, a new study published Wednesday shows.

Why it matters: The study is among the first to show a link between hotter ocean temperatures and stronger hurricane wind speeds. It ties climate change to a hurricane's destructive potential.

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Electric vehicles in Africa: what’s needed to grow the sector |

In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. Vehicle emissions also contribute to global warming.

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Countries spend huge sums on fossil fuel subsidies – why they’re so hard to eliminate -

 Fossil fuels are the leading driver of climate change, yet they are still heavily subsidized by governments around the world.

Although many countries have explicitly promised to reduce fossil fuel subsidies to combat climate change, this has proven difficult to accomplish. As a result, fossil fuels remain relatively inexpensive, and their use and greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow.

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After 40 Years, New Carbon Sequestration Study Confirms the Value of Trees

 

A new model for assessing the carbon sequestration capability of trees and other plants found that the world's greenery sucks up 31 percent more carbon than previously thought. But more tree-planting may not be the answer to maximize these benefits.

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Building Climate and Financial Resilience in Cities: A Dual Imperative

 Climate change is challenging cities' financial resilience, and the impact is often overlooked. Sustainable Capital Advisors created a three-step framework to help them manage climate-related financial risks and seize opportunities for sustainable growth during a historic moment in climate funding.

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World’s 1st artificial island to provide 3.5GW wind energy to 3 million homes

The draft plans for the world’s first artificial energy island have been presented by Belgium's electricity system operator Elia. The island would be the first building block of a European hub for offshore wind energy and will be located in the Belgian part of the North Sea.

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Engineers Consider Carbon Emissions During The Design Process

To make carbon accounting easier, Bentley Systems' new tool allows engineers to see a digital representation of the embodied carbon in their future projects. That also helps them compare building materials and design choices to mitigate those emissions.

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Assessing the Real Climate Costs of Manufacturing

 Producing materials such as steel, plastics and cement in the United States alone inflicts $79 billion a year in climate-related damage around the world, according to a new study by engineers and economists at the University of California, Davis. Accounting for these costs in market prices could encourage progress toward climate-friendly alternatives. 

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Bloomberg Green has visited labs and factories in search of the most promising climate-saving technologies ||

Bloomberg Green Ideas Inspiring $1.8 Trillion Climate Tech Revolution || 

Artificial intelligence (AI) can quickly and accurately predict the path and intensity of major storms, a new study has demonstrated ||

 Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez, who led the study, said: “AI is transforming weather forecasting before our eyes. Two years ago, modern machine learning techniques were rarely being applied to make weather forecasts. Now we have multiple models that can produce 10-day global forecasts in minutes.

A new study revealed that electric vehicle drivers in the U.S. prefer Tesla's at-home wall-mounted chargers compared to all other charging …

American EV owners' favorite home-charging solution: 'We are loving our new car'

Dubai conducted cloud seeding exercises for two consecutive days prior to the floods.

 The scoop on UAE’s artificial rain: Did cloud seeding drown Dubai?

Many workers now follow a hybrid model, spending part of the week in-office and the rest of their time at home, fully remote work is on the rise.

 Remote work more important than salary for 63% of US workers - Interesting Engineering

Hammer Museum Courtyard

 

Originally opened in 1990 as the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, the building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, has been undergoing a series of interventions

Building on the greenbelt is central to solving the housing crisis – just look at how the edges of cities have changed

 The way we develop urban peripheries is central to tackling both the housing crisis and climate emergency

Renewable energy generation is expected to increase somewhere between 30 to 76%, with between 81-95% of new electric capacity

 Energy Information Administration projects that electric vehicles will “account for between 29% and 54% of global new vehicle sales by 2050” with China and Western Europe leading the market for these vehicles 

 

A Boom in Renewable Energy Has Blunted the Global Rise in Emissions |

 Emissions associated with energy use are on track to increase 1 percent this year because of a boom in wind and solar power ||

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Sustainable Electric Car That Cleans The Air While Driving

TU Eindhoven student team TU/ecomotive has developed a sustainable electric passenger car that captures more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than it emits while driving. It is a prototype, called Zem, that purifies the air through a special filter. By storing the captured CO₂ and then disposing it.                                                                                        READ MORE

How to certify your SITES project by the end of 2022 |

Here is an overview of the review process and timeline associated with each review path ||

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Resilient Building Strategies ||

Resilient strategies are used globally, many contemporary, others derived from vernacular architecture’s strong relationship to climate and natural processes. Many of these techniques—some key ones follow—have been aggregated into a set of accessible guidelines at various scales that can be implemented immediately. They support an approach to the natural and built environment that dramatically reduces or eliminates greenhouse gas emissions, addresses climate adaptation and resilience, and offers the potential for an accessible and inexhaustible supply of renewable energy.

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The Skyscraper Museum Surveys the Fast-Paced Transformation of Lower Manhattan ||

“Residential Rising” is a story of significant adaptive reuse, as the symbolic hub of American capitalism has seen dozens of its aging office buildings transformed into apartment houses || Read More

The Living Building ||

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) is an environmental education center and home of the Eco Machine™, a water reclamation system that uses only natural processes to treat wastewater. The OCSL is built to meet the highest standards currently available in sustainable architecture and is the first green building in the world to achieve both LEED® Platinum and Living Building Challenge™ certification.

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Historic Park Inn Hotel Keeps Frank Lloyd Wright's Vision Alive |

Indigo Road Hospitality Group writes a new chapter in the windy epic of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Historic Park Inn Hotel

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The Thirteen Most Controversial Buildings in History ||

New buildings are constructed every day. Some to overwhelming fanfare, others to disdain, and most to little more acknowledgment than a passing glance on the street. Of course, there’s also another option: controversy.

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The Advanced Lighting Behind Urban Agriculture

Creative use of space and cutting-edge lighting technology come together to meet the intensifying need for food production ...

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Better Air Quality in New Buildings

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission aims to reduce airborne infection transmission by improving indoor air quality while maintaining comfort and efficiency.

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Can The New American Home inspire builders to go green?

The New American “net-zero energy” home, infers the potential to generate at least as much energy from renewable sources as it uses ||

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Open database analysis of scaling and spatio-temporal properties of power grid frequencies ||

The energy system, and in particular the electricity system, is undergoing rapid changes due to the introduction of renewable energy sources, to mitigate climate change. To cope with these changes new policies and technologies are proposed and a range of business models are implemented in various energy systems across the world. New concepts, such as smart grids, flexumers, or prosumers, are developed and tested in pilot regions. Still, studies rarely systematically compare different approaches, data, or regions, in part because freely available research data are lacking.

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 For years, climate scientists have been wary of attributing extreme weather directly to man-made atmospheric warming, but that's changing in the face of historic heat waves and cascading natural disasters || 

Scientists unveil a plan to prevent the next pandemic (while supporting nature simultaneously)

Jane Goodall on Conservation, Climate Change and COVID-19: 'If We Carry on With Business as Usual, We're Going to Destroy Ourselves' ||

We need to realize we're part of the environment, that we need the natural world. We depend on it. We can't go on destroying. We've got to somehow understand that we're not separated from it, we are all intertwined. Harm nature, harm ourselves. If we continue with business as usual, we're going to come to the point of no return. At a certain point the ecosystems of the world will just give up and collapse and that's the end of us eventually too.

NYCxDESIGN Gathers Odes to New York From Designers Near & Far

Twenty Five designers from the five boroughs and beyond offer a heartfelt message to the world’s epicenter of design during an uncertain time.

U.S. National Library of Medicine || Oral TCM & COVID-19 Update

The National Library of Medicine started in 1836 as a small collection of medical books and journals in the office of the United States Army Surgeon General.
COVID-19 Update On Cytokine Storm: Identification and Treatment ||

Many doctors are focused on treating the inflammatory reactions it triggers ||

Medicinal "Anti-Inflammatory" Plants vs. Synthetic "Anti-Inflammatory" Drugs | NCBI, U.S. National Library of Medicine | 2018 Review || 

[US National Library of Medicine] Currently, the synthetic antiviral drugs or vaccines have limited use in developing countries due to the emergence of resistant strains, the high cost, and the harmful side effects. However, Anti-Inflammatory agents derived from herbs (medicinal plants) have many advantages such as low cost and toxicity, extensive source, and ease of access. Moreover, medicinal plants usually have multitarget effects, which not only act as antiviral agents (with fewer or no side effects) but also stimulate immunity. Therefore, medicinal plant extracts and phytochemicals are attracting more and more attention as the potential sources for the development of new antiviral drugs during the recent decade. 

Huang Lian Shang Qing (common name Coptidis Combination   [US - N L M]                    Antimicrobial Potential of Coptidis Rhizome   [US - N L M]

Ban Lan Gen (common name: Isatis Root): [US - N L M]

Huang Lian Su (common name: Berberine): [US - N L M]

Qing Fei Yi Huo Pian (common name Gardenia)  [US - N L M]

Qingzao Runfei Huazhuo Xingxue: Inflammatory cells / Alveolar cavity [US - N L M]

Yin Chiao (yin chiao chieh tu pien) Yinchiao Tablet  is highly-regarded for its ability to nourish and strengthen the body's immunity during the onset of infection.  Lianhuaqingwen capsules: (common name forsythia honeysuckle) [US - N L M]

Bell's Palsy  (facial weakness or post-stroke facial paralysis)                                                              Tian Ma Wan = Angelica Sinensis / Rehmanniae Radix      [US - N L M]

Oral TCM/CHM analyzed findings from 3,145 patients in 30 eligible studies on immune responses during coronavirus disease

Oral TCM/CHM formulas are a valuable source of drugs for the management of COVID-19 in its early stages. They act on multitargets, inhibit biochemical pathways, epigenetic regulation of gene expression & modulation of immune response

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak (COVID-19) U.S.Current U.S Coronavirus Information: WolrdOmeter

The 12-Day Greater Boston Design Festival

March 27 - April 7, 2020

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The Guggenheim Reveals Rem Koolhaas and AMO Exhibition ||

Set to open in February 2020, ”Countryside, The Future” will explore the transformation of nonurban areas. Rem Koolhaas, Hon. FAIA, a founder of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has spent much of his design career focused on urbanism and cities around the world. In an upcoming exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, however, Koolhaas turns his focus to the countryside, exploring various challenges facing the planet's undeveloped areas.

LightShow West | Los Angeles Convention Center ||

LightShow West is the West Coast’s foremost destination for ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS and other LIGHTING PROFESSIONALS to keep current on the latest lighting trends ||

AstraZeneca’s LEED Platinum West Coast Center Rethinks R&D ||

From research institutions to life science facilities, laboratories of all stripes tend to use disproportionately high amounts of energy relative to their square footage. So the bar was inherently high for HOK when they were tasked to design the interiors for AstraZeneca’s center for West Coast operations in San Francisco, an ambitious facility that positions research and development labs adjacent to administrative and creative staff in open-plan office spaces.

Discover what’s new, next, & cutting edge | AIA Conference on Architecture 2019

Looking for a project or product solution | Tap into the expertise of some of the industry’s best brands, face to face ||

International Conference on Cities Identity Through Architecture & Arts ||

It is easy to identify a city's identity by looking at its architecture. Architecture is the platform where all cultural, historical and economic monuments meet. With each city's unique identity, the impact is left and history made. Similarly, traditions represent a critical piece of our culture and identity. They help form the structure and foundation of our families and our society.