Top Five Greenest Cities

curitiba, brazil

This is a collaborative list of the top five greenest cities in the world.

My criteria was that these cities had to make multiple other top lists as being sustainable practiced cities, use unique and innovative green technologies and remain breathtakingly beautiful for the people who live there and for those just passing through.

Scientists Develop Non-Eroding Surface Using Scorpion for Study

Scorpion statue at McCarran Airport, Las Vegas

For those who have watched concrete or painted surfaces erode over the course of time from exposure to sand and weather, a new material may be ready for developmental testing – based on the desert scorpion, who has lived its entire life in the blowing sands of the desert and moves on from year to year, no worse for wear.

SolidWorks Offers Great Toolkit to Assess Environmental Impacts of Projects

SolidWorks graphic lca_chart_350

For engineers and designers wanting to understand the environmental and supply chain impacts of the work they take on, SolidWorksXPRESS is a powerful design tool. Take a look at this post from Clean Technica. Or go ro SolidWorks to view this well-produced video. Dating game: Thelen advances Chicago Sun-Times February 12, 2001 | DALE BOWMAN [...]