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Looking Back: 2014’s Most Important Stories: Green Building to Health, Food to Climate Change

You gotta admit, 2014 was a heady, bustling, and very crucial year for science and technology. Here's a look back on the important and noteworthy stories that defined 2014, from green building to health, food to climate change. And oh,…

neoli30 diciembre 2014

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7 Steps to Beating Holiday Stress

In an ideal world, we would all be celebrating the holiday season—whether that’s Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, or even Winter Solstice—with joyful ease and happy simplicity. But despite modern conveniences and luxuries, holiday stress have become a default scenario in our…

neoli21 diciembre 2014

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What Happens Now After the Climate Change Conference

And so it’s a wrap. The UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, dubbed as COP 20 (Conference of the Parties, the twentieth session so far) had finally ended last Sunday, spilling over for some 36 hours behind schedule. The…

neoli17 diciembre 2014

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How to Give the Best Holiday Gifts and Still Keep Your Sanity

Maybe you don’t really need anyone to tell you, but the holiday season is actually the most stressful time of the year. All that racking our brains, deciding the perfect gift for friends and family, jostling our way amidst crowds…

neoli11 diciembre 2014

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Seven Ways to Green Fashion

New clothes, new jeans, new bags, new shoes—they’re inevitable this holiday season because, after all, we’re all in a festive, buying mood. In this age of selfies, it’s especially natural to want to always look our darn best. But in…

neoli6 diciembre 2014

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LEED 2009 Extension and Other Stories | November Roundup

The Link Between Global Warming and Crop Nutrients Global warming might produce less-nutritious crops. That’s the conclusion of a six-year study released earlier this year. Studies report crops and their nutrients don't fare well amidst global warming. According to Samuel Myers of Harvard…

neoli29 noviembre 2014

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Rethinking the Food Crisis and Solutions

If you look past the awesome CGI special effects and mind-boggling time dilation shenanigans of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, you’d remember that the basic premise of the film is that the Earth is dying and no longer able to produce food…

neoli24 noviembre 2014

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To LEED or Not to LEED | The Case for Anti-LEED

Last month, architect Steve Mouzon made the case for Anti-LEED in a post at ArchDaily. To LEED or Not to LEED At first glance, Anti-LEED sounds like an outright bashing. There’s that prefix anti after all. And we all know LEED is…

neoli20 noviembre 2014

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How Our Dependence on Palm Oil is Killing Our Rainforest, the Orangutans, the Tigers, and the Planet

Next time you’re in the supermarket, check out the list of ingredients of every product on the shelf. Whether it be bread, pasta, toothpaste, chewing gum, soap, shampoo, detergent, cosmetics, chocolate, ice cream, biscuits, peanut butter, instant noodles, and many,…

neoli14 noviembre 2014

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Addictive Substances and Their Environmental Impact

While we have used addictive substances recreationally for more than 10,000 years, wide scale use of alcohol, coffee, tobacco and drugs has only come about in recent centuries. Commercial production of these substances has made them available to more people,…

Alessandro11 noviembre 2014

Looking Back: 2014’s Most Important Stories: Green Building to Health, Food to Climate Change

7 Steps to Beating Holiday Stress

What Happens Now After the Climate Change Conference

How to Give the Best Holiday Gifts and Still Keep Your Sanity

Seven Ways to Green Fashion

LEED 2009 Extension and Other Stories | November Roundup

Rethinking the Food Crisis and Solutions

To LEED or Not to LEED | The Case for Anti-LEED

How Our Dependence on Palm Oil is Killing Our Rainforest, the Orangutans, the Tigers, and the Planet

Addictive Substances and Their Environmental Impact

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