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First Commercial Algae-to-Biofuels Facility Goes Online
Energy company PetroSun's algae-to-biofuel facility in Rio Hondo, Texas is expected to begin functioning tomorrow, April 1. The farm consists of 1,100 acres of
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: UK's First Planned Ecovillage Gets Go-Ahead
After having their plans rejected once by British planning institutions, a small group of families has been granted permission to build a small ecovillage in the Welsh countryside. The tiny village, to be called Lammas, is planned to cover a 74 acre
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James Howard Kunstler Spares No One in New "KunstlerCast"
Never short on biting critique, James Howard Kunstler is one of the more outrageous commentators on the American built environment. Since authoring the seminal book
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The Ten Most Beautiful Bridges in the World
Neatorama, a blog featuring weird, crazy and wonderful stuff from around the Web, has compiled a list of their picks for the ten most beautiful bridges in the world. Bridges are part of our common sustainable infrastructure, and, when designed
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Fortune Magazine Conference: Searching for Gold in Green
Not to be outdone by other Earth Day events, Fortune magazine has organized its own environmental conference, bringing together some of the biggest names in big business. Entitled "Brainstorm: GREEN," and declaring "This year, Earth Day means
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Portland's Bike Boxes: Making Cars More Polite
After recognizing the economic benefits of creating a network of bike paths on city streets, Portland, Oregon has unveiled a new traffic tool designed to ensure cyclists'
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Habitat Builds Green, Affordable House in Two Weeks
Proving that a new house can be affordable, quickly built and green, even in the post-subprime recession era, Habitat for Humanity has built a sustainable house in just two weeks. Elise Rodriquez's new home, in Osceola County, Florida, was built by its
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Building Affordable Homes Out of Discarded Materials
Dan Phillips builds homes. But, as the Texas Country Reporter notes, there is something a little bit weird about Dan's work. The design is a bit unconventional, and so are the materials. In fact, Dan's houses are built almost completely out of
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Israeli Town Plans Radiation-Free Neighborhood
In tiny Israel, where cellular relay towers dot the landscape, cellular phone usage rates
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French Car Gets 7,150 Miles Per Gallon
That's right, while the EPA and the State of California battle it out in court over whether cars will be required to get 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2020 or 36 mpg by 2016, this French-made car (above) already gets 7,148 mpg! The
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Istanbul Learns From Bogotá
In this new video from our friends at StreetFilms.org, the crew travels to Istanbul, Turkey to speak with local urban planner Kevser Üstündag, and see firsthand how this city of 12 million people is actively dealing with its transportation
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Could Drought Kill Israel's Electric Car?
The public discussion of Israel's water problems intensified this week, with Israel's most respected newspaper, Ha'aretz, calling on water authorities to shift to regulating demand for the
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Snakes on a Plain... and in the City
Deforestation of northern Brazil's rainforests is pushing insanely huge reptiles out of their habitats - and into dense urban areas. Sitting on the mouth of the Amazon River, the
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Strange Things are Happening to the Planet
Just released in paperback, mapmakers Collins
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: Masdar City To Build "Positive-Energy" Building
The folks behind Masdar City - the ecocity planned for the United Arab Emirates by Foster + Partners - have unveiled designs for the city's first piece of iconic architecture, a $300 million home for Masdar's corporate headquarters. The building will be
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: Can Foster + Partners' Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?
With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the
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Noise Levels Driving Cairo Residents Crazy
Anyone who has ever visited Egypt has doubtless noticed that Egyptians have developed a particular national driving style: instead of putting their hands at the 10 and 2 position on the wheel,
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"US Drought Monitor" Provides Weekly Updates on National Water Shortage
For months now, several areas of the USA have been confronting severe water problems. In particular, the southeastern United States, where massive growth over the last few decades has outpaced rational water planning, is facing an extreme drought that
