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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The Design Junkie (Slideshow)
We all know at least one person who's more inclined to exclaim over how great a gift looks than how durable, usable, or sturdy it is. But sometimes you can get beauty that is more than skin-deep. The gifts in our design guide--graphic benches, custom
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Green Gift Guide: The Design Junkie
Whether your design junkie is obsessed with the newest eco-friendly designers, entirely sustainable furniture, or strikingly cool artwork, you'll find the perfect gift here. You might even take inspiration from these designs to come up with some of your o
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Architecture and Market Viability Awards Kick Off the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competitions
With the houses assembled and the team dinners shared, the focus of the 2009 Solar Decathlon has switched to competition. While the goal of the event is to educate students and the public on the potential of solar building
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Solar Decathlon 2009 in Photos and Video (Slideshow)
The 2009 Solar Decathlon has turned the National Mall into a solar village. Get a tour of the houses and hear from the builders and designers in our
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Solar Decathlon 2009 in Photos and Video
The 2009 Solar Decathlon has turned the National Mall into a solar village. Competitors from across the country and around the world have brought their designs to Washington, DC, to compete against other university and college students. Do you have comm
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A Solar Village Pops Up on the National Mall
If you head down to the National Mall in Washington, DC, anytime from today until October 21, you will be surprised to find that a new neighborhood of solar-powered homes has sprung up.
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Shipping Container Home Prototype in Buenos Aires
How much do we love shipping container houses? They're built inside recycled structures, encourage people to live with less and let's face it: they look cool.
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A Warm Workpod for Drafty Lofts
(Images: Dezeen) Warehouses, schoolhouses, and factory buildings repurpose well into lofts and art studios, but draftiness and patchy temperatures often come with the terrain. Berlin architecture firm Davidson Refaildis devised this concept, Selective
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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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The Boskke Sky Planter Turns Gardening on its Head
(Images: Boskke) Designer Patrick Morris has created the Sky Planter, an inverted pot for flowers, herbs, and other leafy companions. The son of a New Zealand ceramics family, Morris chose his company name, Boskke, to invoke the word bosky, meaning a
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Ruda System: 30 Cool Pieces of Furniture in 13 parts
We're always talking about how much we love the less is more concept and furniture that can serve small spaces by adapting to different uses. Well, Rodrigo Valdivielso's Ruda System fits that sweet spot where
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U. Virginia Dorms Now Come With Green Products
For now, 4 demonstration dorm rooms at University of Virginia (UVA) are coming outfitted with snazzy, new green products, like green cleaning products, green school supplies and even electronics, reports The News
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Housing Crisis: Green Cabins, Garden Sheds, Beach Hangs or Hobbit Houses?
The Reclaimed Space unit decorated by EcoFabulous on display at this weekend’s Dwell On Design conference was auctioned off on eBay and raised $75,100 for Habitat for
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Neat House Refurbished with Demolition Materials, by A77 Architects
When asked to refurbish an old house in an upscale neighborhood in Buenos Aires, architects Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi from a77 studio turned to demolition materials and rescued about 50 meters of highway guard rails and
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Shipping-Container "Box Office" Breaks Ground in Providence
Sure, shipping container buildings are nothing new conceptually, but when was the last time you actually saw one being built in the US? That's what we thought. Earlier this week in Providence, Rhode Island, a new
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Michelle Kauffman Closing News Prompts Search for Positive Green Architecture Stories
In a week when we heard the sad news that "the queen of prefab design and marketing" Michelle Kaufman is closing her business's doors due to difficulties posed by the economic downturn, TH Blog Love scours the blogosphere for positive green
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Bamboo Chairs, Retractable Tables by Union Elemental
Bogota-based firm Union Elemental makes these neat pieces of furniture using only bamboo and sustainable wood combined with stainless steel.
