It’s Time to Step Up and...

May 21, 2013 by

A planned demonstration at Gap Inc’s shareholder meeting in San Francisco aims to get Gap..

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A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Ir...

May 20, 2013 by

One of the finest applications of solar photovoltaic panels is in powering drip irrigation systems for farmers ..

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Fisherman’s home turned ...

May 18, 2013 by

With smaller spaces becoming increasingly necessary in dense urban areas,..

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World’s tallest prefab, ...

May 18, 2013 by

Broad Sustainable Construction informs us that a long and arduous approval process has been completed,..

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Cities Working to Be More Eco-...

May 17, 2013 by

Advances in technology, government-sponsored incentives, job creation ..

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Energy Efficient Buildings in ...

May 16, 2013 by

The Skyscraper Museum got it right.

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This house is designed to be e...

May 16, 2013 by

Italian architecture firm Act Romegialli designed this building to start as a little garden house..

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Arkansas’ Thorncrown Cha...

May 9, 2013 by

David Koon at The Arkansas Times writes that Thorncrown Chapel, an iconic piece of organic architecture is under threat..

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If Bilbo Baggins built a zero-...

May 9, 2013 by

This is what it would look like.

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NVIDIA joins the crazy Silicon...

May 8, 2013 by

Apple has its circular spaceships, Google its squiggles, Facebook its Gehry boxes on stilts..

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Green Building fights back aga...

May 8, 2013 by

[Translate]   Lloyd Alter Design / Green Architecture May 3, 2013 Canadian WWII poster/Public Domain Green building has been...

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How cities of the future depen...

May 8, 2013 by

Clive Cookson The Financial Times tours the MIT Media lab in Boston.

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100% Renewable Energy Initiati...

May 3, 2013 by

A newly established global alliance of civil society organizations..

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Beautiful Cykno electric bike ...

May 1, 2013 by

The idea that electric bikes have to look..

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Goedzak – a new approach...

May 1, 2013 by

In dutch, goedzak actually translates to “good guy” or “kind soul”…

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Ideas for making smart growth ...

May 1, 2013 by

Smart Growth is the catch-all term for compact, transit-oriented, walkable urban design..

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Passive House in French humor ...

Apr 28, 2013 by

(Warning: full of innuendo, double entendre and unusual hardware)

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Five of the Ten greenest build...

Apr 25, 2013 by

Chosen by the American Institute of Architects

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Building From Scrap

Apr 25, 2013 by

Ryerson School of Interior Design year end show is built almost entirely from RAW recycled scrap.

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Sustaining Cities on a Crowdin...

Apr 25, 2013 by

A useful discussion of urban futures with a focus on energy…

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Green Idea House

Apr 22, 2013 by

The Green Idea House is one family’s project to affordably retrofit their house into a net zero energy..

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Green Spaces Could Improve Cit...

Apr 22, 2013 by

People in urban environments could experience a well-being boost by living near green spaces,..

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10 ways 3D printers are advanc...

Apr 20, 2013 by

3D printers, the rapid building machines that create objects from plastic filament..

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Forget the green gizmos and ba...

Apr 20, 2013 by

Green building is so complicated sometimes,..

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Students build a cafe out of p...

Apr 20, 2013 by

Eighteen inventive and intrepid graduate students at Newcastle University in England ..

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Fresh tracks: Chicago’s new ‘s...

Apr 20, 2013 by

Anyone who’s visited Chicago can see it was once a hub for rail industry: ..

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Spectacular stair dominates ho...

Apr 18, 2013 by

There is an appalling trend in house design lately where home elevators are, if not standard, certainly are becoming common

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Nice Shades: BIQ Building is p...

Apr 18, 2013 by

Green eyeshades work the same way for buildings as they do for accountants,…

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This apartment building comes ...

Apr 16, 2013 by

When it comes to powering a home with energy from the sun,

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More hot poop on composting to...

Apr 12, 2013 by

In 2005 I visited the Cottage Life Show in Toronto and wrote The Hot Poop on Alternative Toilets,..

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