House made of recycled and salvaged car scraps and local wood

Click on the image to see more

While the McGee house may look like any other new designer home in the neighborhood, its walls tell a different story.

Designed by husband and wife team Karl Wanaselja and Cate Leger of Leger Wanaselja (ecological) Architecture, the upper outside walls of the house are made from over 100 salvaged car roofs.

In a pursuit to build a house that utilized green technologies and reused materials, the couple sourced car roofs from a selection of gray-colored cars that had been left for parts in local junk yards in Berkeley, California.

Their biggest challenge was sourcing car scraps that were in relatively good condition, without dents and with a good paint finish. The scraps were then cut into long tile-like shapes and used to complete the upper outside walls of the house, rendering a similar appearance to slate.

ESA: Playing a Major Part in Monitoring Climate Changes

The Climate Change Initiative will implement all actions necessary to generate essential climate variables, including long-term data preservation, periodic reprocessing of the long-term climate archive, recalibration, algorithm development, product generation and validation, and quality assessment of climate records in the context of climate models.

These activities will be implemented by ESA, in partnership with key users (GCOS, UNFCCC), space agencies, relevant players in the field of climate change research and monitoring (EC, WMO, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), EUMETSAT and national programmes).