photo credit: © Xirriquiteula Teatre The five Barcelona-based Residual Gurus have decided to fight trash with comical roaming concerts, and are touring Europe at the moment. These talented musicians know how to transform rubbish into a spiritual performance that turns the street into a stimulating yet unpredictable haven. "Eastern rhythms, electronic sounds, original instruments, laughter, meditation and improvisation combine in an unrepeatable, collective ritual." The musical group Karam started the show Residual Gurus last year to raise awareness about our trash pro... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Adam Stein once wrote dismissively of vertical farming: "the notion of spending "hundreds of millions" of dollars to build weird, poorly sited temples of food production in areas much better suited to dense, green residential and retail space.... Local food has its merits, but that's what New Jersey is for." I wonder what he would think of Dr. Dickson Despommier's collaboration with Architects Weber Thompson to build the Newark Vertical Farm- in New Jersey.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Denver Living City Block Over 40% of our energy consumption goes into powering our buildings, and we all know that we have to cut that Godzilla-sized footprint. But it seems that most of our efforts go to looking at new stuff rather than fixing the old. Matt Cole, of the Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago writes in Remodeling Magazine's ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Images from Infosys powerpoint on green energy initiatives It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat. Caroline Howe of It's Getting Hot in Here explains:... Read the full story on TreeHugger

For years, the students of Dan Rockhill's Studio 804 at the University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning has been turning out stunning modern green prefabs, placing them in challenging areas of Kansas City and selling them fast to modern design devotees who know a bargain when they see it- quality materials and construction, operating costs and great modern design. But Wendy Koch of USA today writes that the two latest homes are stuck on the market withou... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via: Algalita Marine Research Foundation We must recognize that everything we create as a society has a future that we cannot see. Every product we make lives on after our brief interaction with it. Nowhere is that more apparent than the plastic legacy we are leaving in our oceans. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

So many of the green houses we see are either single family dwellings or larger projects by developers chasing LEED. But there are some lovely little projects being built around the world that both push all the green buttons and look gorgeous, like The Gebhartstrasse Apartment located in Liebefeld Switzerland by Halle 58 Architects., Found on the Contemporist.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Reading David Owen's The Green Metropolis, one would conclude that density is everything, that New York is, as he wrote in the New Yorker, "The Greenest City in America": ... Read the full story on TreeHugger