plant a solar tree today!

architect neville mars has the brilliant idea to build trees: this parking garage design is pure genius! the solar panels provide optimum shade for cars parked beneath them as they follow the path of the sun like heliopsis! electric cars can recharge here. more solar tree ideas are on webecoist.

web-ecoist

webEcoist is a really cool website that covers "sustainable living, green design and environmental oddities" in a good, not freakish, way. earlier this week they had a gorgeous posting entitled "45 colorful uninhabited places to see before you die": maybe some are near you, or you have already been there so you can cross them off of your bucket list. check it out! on the theme of our lovely colorful world: i shot the photo above on my lame iphone camera last friday night looking up the potomac river on the virginia side of the chesapeake bay.