To support the Wetskills initiative, I visited last week the rapidly growing mega-city Ahmedabad, West India (7.2 million inhabitants) and visited the Adalaj Stepwall. When the city was founded, the climate was arid as nowadays, so people decided to build water storages underground to collect rain water during seasonal monsoons. Dependent on which period, people had to […]
Water solutions in ancient times Meer lezen »
This is it! This week we have started building a unique Art Project with potential applications for off-grid water resources in a changing climate. The SunGlacier project aims to offer solutions built within an intriguing design as it inspires more creative innovations for adaptation. Since the start of the SunGlacier project I have been surrounded
The SunGlacier V01 Protoype – we started! Meer lezen »
We began project SunGlacier with the intention of sending a positive and optimistic signal to all in the climate debate. It has since evolved into a project focused on ways to apply climate changes for our own benefit. If temperatures rise, the air contains more water. For instance: A dry and hot desert can contain
Let’s start plan B Meer lezen »
My journey through California. By Ap Verheggen The sky was clear when we flew in to Los Angeles. Even from my bird’s eye perspective, the dimension of the deserts that we crossed overwhelmed me. I asked myself how somebody could survive in this harsh landscape. But when the plane descended on its path to LAX,
They simply forgot that they live in a desert Meer lezen »
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/business/energy-environment/sculptor-turns-to-possibilities-of-the-desert.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
SunGlacier in the New York Times Meer lezen »
Multiple article were published on the Inhabitat website. Click Link
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