“Forty of America’s richest families have committed to the Giving Pledge, an effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage billionaires to provide at least half their money to charity.”
Related: Post from June with link to Fortune magazine story describing the giving challenge.
Via bethpinsker:
(via camilamoraes)
Architecture matters
1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces - Victoria and Albert Museum
“Using the landscape of the Museum as a test site, the V&A invited nineteen architects to submit proposals for structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat. From these nineteen concept submissions, seven were selected for construction at full-scale.” Exhibition open through August 30, 2010.
Via libraryland:
Book Benches
[via Shoshana Fanizza (@AudienceDevSpec on Twitter)]
![Via philk:
unconsumption:
Recycled parking meters collect donations for Montréal’s homeless — Springwise
[hat tip to Maria Popova (@brainpicker)]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a74557e4b0b80ded0421f1/1437979191208-TKXOJZJT1CWO164ROUNC/image-asset.jpeg)
Via philk:
Recycled parking meters collect donations for Montréal’s homeless — Springwise
[hat tip to Maria Popova (@brainpicker)]
Nice series of green roof photos.
Via urbangreens:
“New York’s Empire State Building gleams in the windows of architectural firm Cook + Fox. Specialists in green buildings, the designers wanted their own space to reflect the fact that more plants in more places make for more livable cities.”
Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic