Daylighting to Improve the City and the Environment - Blue Living Ideas

Daylighting to Improve the City and the Environment

Posted on Mar 18, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

Streams and rivers can be central attractions of a city. They can be beautiful, vibrant public places where people can enjoy the company of others while also enjoying the peace and calm of nature. They can also provide peaceful and aesthetically pleasing transportation corridors for bicyclists, roller-bladers, skateboarders, pedestrians and others.

For these reasons, daylighting is becoming an increasingly popular tool among urban planners and landscape architects.
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Whales Caught as Incidental Bycatch Threaten Coastal Populations

Posted on Jul 08, 2009 by Derek Markham.

The number of whales killed and sold as ‘incidental bycatch’ along the coasts of Japan and South Korea may equal the amount of whales caught through legal whaling, threatening populations of minke, western gray, humpbacks, fin whales, and Bryde’s whales.
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