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Passive solar glass home: watching the sun move
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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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7 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Greens gone wild: America's first eco-fraternity
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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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9 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The new American Dream according to a 21st Century farmer
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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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10 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Can DIY become tradition or is canning just the new sewing?
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My mother-in-law stands a good chance of surviving a natural disaster. Be it nuclear war or a climate change catastrophe, she has the skills to survive: she plants her own food, bakes her own bread with homegrown yeast, forages for wild seasonal vegetables, helped build her childhood home, has raised ...
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10 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A small town green high-rise
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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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11 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
