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Filed under: Featured, buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 10:39 am
November 16th 2009
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 12:05 pm
November 16th 2009
Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have scooped up a $10 million horse ranch way outside Los Angeles in Westlake Village, California. The pair have long expressed interest in one day retiring from the hustle and bustle and just enjoying the simple life. “It’s our dream that we’ll end up in a sweet country [...]
Filed under: Featured, buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 10:39 am
November 16th 2009
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 1:09 pm
November 12th 2009
We knew South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were into weaving green themes into story lines, but who knew they were also into doing it with their own homes?
The duo recently opened up their Colorado getaway retreat to Steamboat Today and offered readers a look at where they like to unwind with their [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses, green and famous — Luke Warner @ 1:52 am
October 28th 2009
Leonardo DiCaprio took his Inception co-star Ellen Page to check out the penthouse in Los Angeles’ Evo South condos recently.
Seems like Leo’s in the market for some new digs and took his friend along to check out the space, reportedly worth about $2.1 million.
According to the New York Daily News, the loft-style condos are built [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 3:24 pm
October 26th 2009
As Luke mentioned yesterday, Madonna is currently in Malawi for the groundbreaking of her new Academy for Girls school. We’ve been following her efforts to bring a school to the Southern African country ever since she announced the ambitious plans back in May of last year. Today, the 51-year-old planted a Moringa tree, also known [...]
Filed under: Featured, buildings and construction, campaigns, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 10:00 am
October 7th 2009
Sea Shepherd’s sleek, dark, new apprentice has arrived — and the force is strong with this one. And by force, I mean the two 540 horsepower Cummins Mercruiser biodiesel-fueled engines on-board capable of running circles around the Japanese whaling ships.
And so it begins: Earthrace, one of the fastest powerboats on the planet, has been given [...]
Filed under: Featured, buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 8:49 pm
October 5th 2009
We’re used to Brad Pitt’s green building foundation, Make It Right NOLA, revealing some new takes on sustainable design, but a house that floats when it floods? Now that’s something that truly raises the bar for sustainable and functional design in the face of adverse elements!
The home, which is the brainchild of Morphosis Architects and [...]
Filed under: Featured, buildings and construction, campaigns, cars-houses, honors — Michael d'Estries @ 9:53 am
September 25th 2009
Sporting a longer than usual goatee/beard, Brad Pitt took to the podium at the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative to give an update on his Make It Right foundation’s progress in New Orleans. “I don’t know how we build any other way anywhere else,” Pitt said, addressing the audience in New York. “We can no [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 2:20 pm
September 2nd 2009
It’s no secret that Brad Pitt has a passion for architecture. His most famous involvement in the industry is the sustainable rebuilding of New Orleans’ lower 9th Ward through his Make It Right foundation, but the actor is also involved in a green hotel project in Dubai. Or at least was. Since the worldwide economy [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 12:00 pm
September 1st 2009
Pope Benedict XVI, not content to let the Vatican steal all the green glory, has just finished installing solar panels on his Bavarian home.
The 82-year-old Pontiff is certainly the greenest Pope yet — though his analogy of “saving gays” as akin to “saving the rainforests” is where we draw the line.
For his home near near [...]