{"id":56919,"date":"2017-04-28T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T05:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-skyscraper-concept-would-heal-icebergs-and-eat-carbon-dioxide"},"modified":"2017-04-28T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T05:22:29","slug":"this-skyscraper-concept-would-heal-icebergs-and-eat-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-skyscraper-concept-would-heal-icebergs-and-eat-carbon-dioxide","title":{"rendered":"This Skyscraper Concept Would Heal Icebergs and Eat Carbon Dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-skyscraper-concept-would-heal-icebergs-and-eat-carbon-dioxide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class='server-side-image' src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-skyscraper-concept-would-heal-icebergs-and-eat-carbon-dioxide.jpg\"\/> The \u201creverse climate change machine\u201d is an honorable mention in the Evolo Skyscraper Design Competition.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/this-future-skyscraper-houses-a-glacier-a-desert-a-jungle-and-more\">one-stop skyscraping shop<\/a> for urbane living and <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-gif-reminder-of-how-positive-plants-can-be\">fighting climate change<\/a> called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolo.us\/featured\/heal-berg-reverse-climate-changing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">HEAL-BERG<\/a> is among the selected entries in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolo.us\/category\/competition\" target=\"_blank\">eVolo\u2019s annual Skyscraper Competition<\/a>, which invites the world\u2019s designers to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/creators.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/the-beyonce-skyscraper-shows-off-its-curves\">challenge the way we understand vertical architecture<\/a>.\u201d The mammoth pearlescent structure would simultaneously cool Antarctic ocean water, scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and generate electricity with saltwater and wind turbines, creating what the designers call, a \u201creverse climate change machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luca Beltrame and Saba Nabavi Tafreshi created HEAL-BERG as a response to a potential future in which, \u201cclimate was changing at a rate exceeding most scientific forecasts; oceans warming, air pollution and climate change were caught in a discernible self-boosting loop. In the speculative world they\u2019ve created, it\u2019s 2039, 21.5 million people are being displaced annually due to climate change and, \u201cthe complex patterns representing the world were doomed to collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/iceberg-healing-skyscraper-concept-evolo-carbon-dioxide?utm_source=tcpfbus\">https:\/\/creators.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/iceberg-healing-skys...ce=tcpfbus<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201creverse climate change machine\u201d is an honorable mention in the Evolo Skyscraper Design Competition. A one-stop skyscraping shop for urbane living and fighting climate change called the HEAL-BERG is among the selected entries in eVolo\u2019s annual Skyscraper Competition, which invites the world\u2019s designers to \u201cchallenge the way we understand vertical architecture.\u201d The mammoth pearlescent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}