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Passive solar glass home: watching the sun movevideos
Back in the late seventies when Cliff Butler was ready to build his dream home, he was looking for one thing: a southern-facing slope. This then-33-year-old pharmacist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina claims his friends thought he was crazy. He had never heard of global warming, but he liked to ...
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1 month, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A small town green high-risevideos
Eco-skyscrapers are increasingly sprouting up in cities worldwide, like Rotterdam's Urban Cactus, Chicago's 340 on the Park, Manhattan's Hearst Tower and Bank of America Tower and the Bahrain World Trade Center Towers, but even developers in smaller towns- anxious to battle urban sprawl- are embracing a type ...
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5 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Greens gone wild: America's first eco-fraternityvideos
It's a fraternity where the environment is the focus: it's not just service-oriented (though they do stream cleanups and native species removal), but they meet up over local, vegan food and they've even thrown a party without electricity. Started back in 2006 at the University of North ...
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3 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The new American Dream according to a 21st Century farmernews
It's difficult to pin a label on North Carolina's Tim Toben. His
understated appearance- the several times we met with him he was clad
in jeans and sneakers- belies the power he wields, at least in this
part of the country. A few of his past and current ...
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4 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments