A 13-year search for one of the smallest big cats in the world just ended, confirming what many feared: The Formosan clouded leopard is extinct in Taiwan. The more than decade-long search involved 1,500 infrared cameras, baited fur traps, and countless hours of fieldwork by zoologists from Taiwan and the U.S. But habitat loss, poaching and the lack of prey combined to seal the fate of the beautiful cat.

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Post tags: Animals, clouded leopard, endangered species, extinct leopard, Formosan clouded leopard, habitat loss, Neofelis nebulosa brachyura, poaching, Taiwan, threatened animals, Wildlife, Wildlife conservation

MisoSoupDesign‘s Invisible Farm is a vertical window farming concept that was created as a part of the Taiwan Wanderer Guide 2012 Exhibition at Taichung, Taiwan. The unit combines vertical farming with the traditional Taiwanese window cover into a living installation that is perfect for urban apartments or other small spaces. The project was completed in September 2012, and it includes more than 50 hexagonal units, each of which is fed by a small water intake pipe.

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Post tags: Gardening, green interiors, Invisible Farm, Miso Soup Design, MisoSoupDesign, taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan Wanderer Guide, Urban Farming, vertical garden

Have you ever been freaked out riding your bike at night, surrounded by automobiles piloted by distracted drivers? Well, here’s an innovation for safer night-cycling that might be hitting the market soon (and reducing your level of stress). A team of designers has won an industrial design award for their Bike Zone invention, which creates a lighted safety zone on the ground around your bike, alerting drivers to your presence at night. The laser-projected zone extends for a meter on each side and also projects an animated directional signal. Frank Guo, Hung Wang, and Stuart Morrow, a team of independent designers, received a Bronze award for the Bike Zone design in the 2012 Lite-On Awards, a competition sponsored by Taiwan’s $16 billion Lite-On Technology Corporation.

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Post tags: award, bicycle, bicycling, bike zone, biking, cycling, Design, frank guo, green transportation, hung wang, Light, Lite-on, night, safety, stuart morrow, Taiwan

Read the rest of CIE’s Energy-Efficient Keelung Terminal Proposal for Taiwan Uses Natural Ventilation

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Post tags: "energy efficiency", de Architekten, De Architekten CIE, energy efficient building, Keelung, Keelung Port, Keelung Terminal, natural ventilation, passive design, sustainable design, Taiwan

Read the rest of Dragon-Scaled Hongzhu Housing Sales Center Deflects the Heat in Taiwan

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Post tags: "sustainable architecture", double layered facade, dragon scales, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, high performance facade, hongzhu housing sales center, lab modus, metal shade screen, shade screen, sun screen, sun shading, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, Taipei City, Taiwan

The interdependent relationship between sparrows and rice has always been important within Taiwan’s Jenju village. The birds eat insects that otherwise would destroy the rice plantations, leaving huge amounts of leftover rice straws after each harvest, which was historically used as a building material. Inspired by this symbiotic relationship, designer Gina Hsu from DHH Studio created a series of cute biodegradable bird houses.

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Post tags: Animals, Art, biodegradable materials, bird nest, DHH Studio, Gina Hsu, green materials, green products, Nagaaki Shaw, OU Studio, rice straw, Taiwan, waste materials

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Post tags: arthur c clark inspired, chinese B, eco installation, green artwork, julian king, ray king, solar installation, solarsonic, sustainable art, Taiwan, Taoyuan Airport

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Post tags: bioclimatic design, Casagrande Laboratory, Chen House, Datun, earthquakes, eco design, farmhouse, green design, natural disasters, sustainable design, Taiwan, typhoons, wooden construction

Google’s new data centers in Taiwan will keep cool during the day thanks to ice made overnight. A thermal storage system, the first of its kind for Google, will balance the company’s energy needs during off-peak night hours, when electricity is cheaper, and during the day when there is more demand on the local grid. The cooling system is another reason why Google repeatedly ranks as a leading green information technology (IT) company.

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Post tags: alternative energy, carbon footprint, data centers, Google, green it, information technology, Taiwan, Thermal storage, thermal storage system

Read the rest of Marco Casagrande’s Gorgeous Bamboo “Cicada” Pavilion Snakes its Way Through Urban Taipei

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Post tags: "sustainable architecture", bamboo structure, Cicada, cocoon like structure, eco design, green design, Marco Casagrande, organic architecture, sustainable design, taipei, Taiwan

Read the rest of Tower of Power is a Wind Energy-Generating Skyscraper for Taiwan

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Post tags: eco design, eco skyscraper, eco tower, green architecture, Green Building, green design, landmark tower, mini wind turbines, Mixed-use tower, nl architects, small wind turbines, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, Taiwan, taiwan tower, taiwan tower proposal, tower of power, vertical axis wind turbine, wind turbines

Read the rest of STL Architects Design an Amazing Sustainable Circular Tower for Taichung City

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Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Architecture, circular architecture, circular tower, clean air, eco design, green architecture, green design, stl architects, stl circular tower, sustainable design, taichung city, Taiwan, vertical garden, vertical gardens

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Post tags: "green wall", "solar energy", bio-energy, Centennial, green design, living facade, sky garden, sustainable design, taichung, Taiwan, vertical garden, vincent callebaut, wind energy

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Post tags: Amis tribe, bamboo, Da Wong Da Fu Forest, Eco Architecture, eco design, forest pavilion, green design, green materials, Hualien County, nArchitects, Parabolic arches, sustainable design, Taiwan

Read the rest of Influx Studio Unveils Spiraling Garden Museum With a Cork-Screw Green Roof for Taipei

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Post tags: carbon footprint, carbon offset, double glazed facade, green design, natural lighting, OODA, rainwater harvesting, solar panels, sustainable design, Taipei City Museum of Art, Taiwan

Is reading green? With one option in the form of paper and the other channeling electricity through the latest gadget, it’s easy to begin to feel a little green guilt about one of your favorite hobbies. But you don’t need to fret over your reading carbon footprint anymore, that’s because Taiwanese researchers have developed re-writable “paper” that allows you to channel the benefits of an e-reader, all without the need to keep it powered up.

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Post tags: e-readers, green gadgets, green technology, i2R e-paper, Industrial Technology and Research Institute, Industrial Technology Research Institute, rewritable paper, Taiwan

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Post tags: De Architekten CIE, eco design, energy efficient building, green design, Jason Lee, Kaohsiung Port Station, Patrick Koschuch, repurposed railway, solar gain, sustainable design, Taiwan, urban renewal

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Post tags: atmosphere fields, brick, concrete, eco design, elements, Green Building, green design, interbreeding field, paradise lost in time, shihlin paper factory, sustainable design, taipei, Taiwan