Pallets No Longer Good For Just Shipping… Or Making Huge Fires

For this year’s Architecture Triennale, there will be an exhibition that focuses on humanitarian housing solutions. Ten architects have been chosen to design and build full-scale prototypes to be showcased. A few of the participating architects include Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and I-Beam Design. I-Beam Design has their Pallet House that they will be showing in the exhibition. Pallets are found in most countries nowadays and make for cheap, available building materials. This house took one week to build and furnish. Homes like this show that there are quick, affordable ways to provide housing for poverty stricken areas that allow easy manipulation and customization.

The Pallet House

Earth Hour: 2008

As more and more signs of global warming show up, people are beginning to find ways to help the environment in both small and big proportions. The people of Earth Hour have called for everyone that wants to make a difference to join millions by turning their lights off from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm on March 29th. It will mark the first anniversary of the event which started in 2007.

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.

-Earth Hour

Follow the link to read about Earth Hour’s objectives and see how you can help make a difference for your planet.

Earth Hour