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The Best of Fast Company: BP's Bid to Move Beyond Petroleum, Growing Algae in Abandoned Mines, and a Green Makeover for the Humvee
This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next-generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.
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Five Fabric Skins Help Buildings Beautifully Harvest the Weather
Architecture, says designer Filiz Klassen,
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Green Materials 101: Your Guide to Green Building, Remodeling, and Home Improvement
When it comes to building or renovating a home, there are few simple choices. From styles and colors to location and design, there's an awful lot to consider. Thankfully, you don't have to settle for
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Green Materials Guide: Your Guide to Materials for Green Home Improvement, Remodeling and Renovation (Slideshow)
There are few simple choices when it comes to building or renovating a home. From colors to style, location to design, there's an awful lot to consider; part of that consideration is the impact each step
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Designer's Pick for Hot Winter Fashion: Insulation
One of Turkey's most well-known avant-garde designers is cloaking scale models of famous Istanbul buildings in one-of-a-kind
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Is LEED Breaking Up with FSC-Certified Wood?
After a long-lasting and loving monogamous relationship between the US Green Building Council and the Forest Stewardship Council, it seems the USGBC is considering, not a break up, but definitely thinking
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Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation Unveils Floating House
The Float House, designed by Morphosis Architects, is the latest design to be built by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation, which is helping families rebuild eco-friendly homes in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Photo courtesy of Morphosis
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Best of Inhabitots: Top 7 Eco-Friendly Playhouses for Kids
Part child's playhouse, part home-within-a-home getaway for harried parents, Manuel Villa's Habitable Polyhedron is like an escape pod from outer space.
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NOx-Sucking Sidewalks Could Save Lives (or at Least, Lungs)
Cement has not had an easy time trying to profile itself as a green building material - it's energy intensive and has high carbon dioxide emissions, and
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The Best of Fast Company: Jellyfish-Infused Space Candy, Household Upcycled Robots, and a High Line for San Francisco
This week at Fast Company, Japanese students crush up invasive jellyfish into candy, Adoptabot upcycled robots make great pets, architects propose a High Line for San Francisco, and PNC Bank finishes the largest green living wall in North
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Harvard Receives More LEED Certs Than Any Other University
Harvard just earned itself one more (green) distinction this week with its 20th LEED certification, more than any other university in the world (and more than the
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Turkey's First Luxury LEED Building: Hype or Hope?
Architectural firm RMJM's plan for a new eco-luxury development in Istanbul -- potentially Turkey's first LEED-certified mixed-use structure -- has the green-building blogosphere buzzing. So why am I having a hard time getting excited about it?
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Be Chief of Your Own Lookout Post
(Images via dornob and Tiny House Blog) If solitude, stair climbing, small spaces, and big panoramic views are your thing, you might feel right at home in a repurposed fire lookout tower. The hawk-eyed gang at dornob has wrangled together some beautiful
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Timber Houses Lead a Double Life. As Carbon Sinks.
Today I was pushing my new son around in his stroller to lull him into sleep, when I happened upon a a steel frame house going up. Now I know there is often a goodly amount of recycled steel in such frames and they are very termite resistant. But still
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Insect Infestation as Green Architecture Tool
So what do you get when you add an invasive bug that kills millions of trees to a heavily wooded area? If you're the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL), you use the situation as an opportunity to build a world-class green
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New Green Homes in Seattle (Hopefully Won't Be Set On Fire)
(Images: GreenDwellingSeattle.com) If you're building green in Seattle, you have to be pretty confident of your product. After all, these "Green McMansions" were were called out on a greenwashing foul and torched to the ground. Dwell Development, LLC
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US Buildings Account for 40% of Energy and Materials Use
Whilst unearthing stuff for another article I turned over a stone that revealed some rather startling figures about the environmental impact of the built environment. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the guys who manage the LEED (Leadership in
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"Payback" Dilemma Holds Back Campus Climate Initiatives
Rocky Mountain Institute is in the final stages of developing "Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives," an on-line book that will describe the many
