Tag: Preservation
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Lessons From The Past: How Living Like Great Grandma Is Green
Matt Grocoff describes how his ancestors lived " in an elegant cradle-to-cradle, closed loop pattern."
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Species and Habitats Being Saved by Google Earth
Google Earth has been used to discover and protect a range of species and habitats, proving that this technology isn't just pretty pictures, but a real tool for conservation.
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Cutty Sark Museum Is Demonstration of How NOT To Mix Old And New
Preservation of our history is important, but I have never seen a building so reviled and hated as this new "restoration."
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Amazing Brickwork Acts As Solar Screen On Indian Building
This is the kind of workmanship you don't see anymore.
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How Does A Building Get To Its Hundredth Birthday? A Look at Fenway Park
By being lovable, durable, Accessible and Serviceable.
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Why the Sierra Club is Endorsing President Obama
We’ve achieved some incredible victories. But there's more to do.
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Prefab and Preservation, Together At Last at Dovecote Studios
How many buttons does this push? Haworth Tompkins drop new steel box into old brick walls.
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Another Paul Rudolph Might Bite The Dust: Orange County Government Center Under Threat
The Replacement is a lovely Tea Party Colonial That is....efficient.
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Rustic Prefab Shipping Container House Wraps Around Two Trees
This country house keeps it simple by using two recycled, prefab shipping containers, while respecting the growth and preservation of two existing trees.
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All You Need Is Love: A Valentine to Steve Mouzon and Kaid Benfield
What I have learned about love from my two favourite writers on urban design and green building
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Quote of the Day: Michael Kimmelman on the Value of Architecture
The New York TImes Critic Looks at Penn Station and Calls it Every Name In the Book.
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The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To Work With industrial Relics, Graffiti and All
The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge.
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Professor Explains Why Planners Have to Take Agenda 21 More Seriously
Andrew Whittemore suggests some tactics in Atlantic Cities. Alas, I think they are not enough.
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Agenda 21 Plot Exposed in the New York Times and Grist
The newspaper of record picks up on the issue that we have been covering for some time. Grist finds it all very funny; It's not.
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Saving Food From The Fridge: It Will Taste Better, May Even Last Longer And Reduce Your Energy Bills
A Korean designer shows how we can keep food fresh and good tasting without refrigeration, learning from people who didn't have the choice.
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Proof that the Greenest Building is the One Already Standing Released in New Report from Preservation Green Lab
We have been saying it for years, but now finally have the numbers to prove it. But it isn't as simple as I thought it was.
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With Mystical Black and White Landscapes, Clyde Butcher Aims to Preserve and Restore Florida's Everglades (Photos)
An exhibit of Clyde Butcher's photographs captures vanishing landscapes in an effort to restore ecosystems.
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Prince Charles Donates Millions to Combat Climate Change
Prince Charles has donated a fortune to fight climate change royally.
