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London to Retrofit Public Buildings for Reduced Emissions
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, announced a new project last week to cut public buildings' energy use by 25%. Contracts were awarded for the first stage of the project, in which 42 public buildings will be retrofitted for energy savings over the
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Tiny Eskimo Village Sues 24 Big Energy Companies
A tiny Alaskan village is suing 24 major energy companies for damages due to global warming. The 390 residents of Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo village built on a barrier reef in the Arctic Ocean, have
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In Israel: More Cellular Antennas = Less Radiation?
Controversy over cellular antennas is nothing new in Israel. The battle lines are clear: on one side, the cellular companies and the Environmental Protection Ministry, on the other side, wide segments of the public, who fear possible health risks to
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Germany Gets Creative with Renewables
Is Germany on its way to genuine energy independence and 100% reliance on renewable energy sources? An experiment conducted by the University of Kassel in cooperation with three energy companies challenges the conventional wisdom on renewable energy
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Solar Powered Flash Drive Screen - Super or Superfluous?
These days it seems companies producing electronic gadgets will go well out of their way to include "sustainable" features in their products, even if they serve no apparent purpose. The latest example of this is the Samsung U.Season Slider USB Flash
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: Gary Braasch, Environmental Photographer
"Environmental photography is a combination of nature and documentary work that focuses on the world as habitat and biosphere and source of everything. This most strongly includes humans, who as mammals are completely affected by the environment and as
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CBS: Forget Flying, Amtrak is In
Amtrak ridership is at an all time high - last year 26 million passengers took the train instead of driving or flying. While this may not compare to the hundreds of millions of passengers on Europe and Asia's high-speed rails, there is a clear trend
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: A Visit to Freiburg
Germany's DW-TV takes a visit to Freiburg's solar village, where residents live in colorful houses that produce way more energy than their occupants require. As a result, homeowners have become "eco-entrepreneurs", selling the electricity their homes
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Big Money Invests in Cleantech
Big Money seems to be getting the message: after Al Gore told an audience worth $20 trillion in capital that its polluting investments should be considered "subprime", US institutional investors pledged last Thursday to invest $10 billion over the next
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: How to Retrofit Your Downtown (The Abbreviated Course)
For those of you who are curious exactly how Richard Register's ideas would work in practice, here's what it could look like if Americans ever decided to retrofit their downtowns for true sustainability.
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Ecocities of Tomorrow: An Interview with Richard Register
Author, theorist and philosopher Richard Register is one of the pioneers of the ecocity movement, with 35 years of experience advocating for cities that facilitate humanity's "creative and compassionate evolution" while contributing to the health of the
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Can the Composting Porto-Potty Solve Israel's Water Woes?
Consider this fact: flush toilets account for 40% of household water consumption in Israel. In other words, almost half of the water used in Israeli households goes to disposal and transport (through the sewage system) of peoples' daily needs. A new
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High-Speed Passenger Rail Comes to the Americas
The contracts have been signed, and the first high-speed railway in the Americas will be built very soon - but not where you're thinking. Argentina's new President Christina Kirchner, wife of former President Nestor Kirchner, signed the papers last
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Tree Planters in Europe Adopt Guerrilla Tactics
Forests are usually defenseless against the forces of development. However, Friends of the Earth - Europe has decided to help the forests fight back. With the help of advertising firm PH/LAW in the Netherlands, a website has been set up with a do it
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North Carolina Architects Build Themselves a Green Home
The North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects is building itself a new headquarters in downtown Raleigh and, in the spirit of the times, it will be a green building. Chosen from 69 entries to the AIA's sustainable design
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What is a Swale?
In this video from The Permaculture Research Institute, Geoff Lawton explains the simple yet elegant concept that is the swale. Formally defined by Bill Mollison as "long, level excavations, which can vary greatly in width and treatment from small
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Can BRT Encourage Bike Use?
Another great short film from the folks at StreetsBlog,
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Dude, Where's My House?!
A Russian woman named Lyudmila Martemyanova returned home last month from a vacation out of town, only to find that her house had been completely leveled to the ground. "There was nothing
