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• Discover thousands of organisms from around the world.
• Document nature with your mobile phone.
• Posted about this awhile back. Phones are so much more prevalent now. Join Project Noah– make discoveries on the fly.

Native Euonymous at the Brine Garden

How the Rankings Work:

We used raw data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide, which collected survey data and government statistics for American cities of over 100,000 people in more than 30 categories, including air quality, electricity use and transportation habits. We then compiled these statistics into four broad categories, each scored out of either 5 or 10 possible points.

Electricity

Transportation

Green living

Recycling and green perspective

1. Portland, Ore.

America’s top green city has it all: Half its power comes from renewable sources, a quarter of the workforce commutes by bike, carpool or public transportation, and it has 35 buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.

2. San Francisco, Calif.

3. Boston, Mass.

9. Chicago

10. Austin, Tex.

11. Minneapolis, Minn.

17. Syracuse, N.Y.

19. Denver, Colo.

20. New York, N.Y.

22. Milwaukee, Wis

31. St. Louis, Mo.

35. Kansas City, Mo.

Panopticons: Singing Ringing Tree

This steel sculpture has won the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence in 2007. The sculpture is set in the landscape of the Pennines overlooking Burnley, in the north west of England. It was designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu. This musical sculpture is called the Singing Ringing Tree because of the harmonic and singing qualities that the tree produce by tuning the pipes.

The videos below will give more info about this amazing piece of art. You will also be able to hear the sound of this fabulous Sing Ringing Tree!

Winners are:

the Dutch firm West 8, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, Quennell Rothschild & Partners and SMWM

See here, their World Park plan.