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Sustainable Village in Nepal Houses Former Street Children

The Pegasus Project built a small sustainable village near Kathmandu, Nepal in the Himalaya mountains where there are over 40 super adobe domes to accommodate 80 children, 10 staff and a small school. The village also has solar panels for hot water and a bio gas plant. The video below shows how the adobe homes [...]

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Wooden ‘Islands’ Allow Beachgoers to Enjoy Rocky Coast

Architect Vincent Guallart has come up with a way to access jagged, rocky oceanfront property that’s low impact and quite beautiful.  These hexagonal wooden ‘islands’ were built along a rough coast in Spain to allow locals to enjoy the beach comfortably without any major construction.  Guallart says they allow sunbathers and swimmers to enjoy a [...]

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Vertical Farms are Beautiful and Productive

Imagine walking along a city street, looking up at the tall buildings around you and seeing beautiful hues of green, red, purple and other vibrant colors through glass windowpanes instead of just concrete and steel. Vertical farms wouldn’t just be a super smart way to grow local food in urban environments – they’re pretty, too. [...]

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The Slow Death of a City Block in St. Louis

“At any given time, there are about 6,000 abandoned buildings in St. Louis.”
BuiltStLouis.net laments the deterioration of what was once a city bustling with life, full of people and activity, but is now full of desolate urban landscapes punctuated by plywood boards over windows and piles of jagged bricks from demolitions. The worst part [...]

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Disney’s ‘Dream Home’ is Tacky, Lame, and So Not Green

I’ve just seen the future, and it’s lame. Luckily, it’s nothing more than Disney’s ‘Dream Home’, not an actual vision of how we’ll be living our lives in the years to come. Unlike the innovative, futuristic 1950’s version, this ‘home of the future’ looks like a typical suburban McMansion, but with even more [...]

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Architect Incorporates Mystery into Fifth Ave Apartment

This story isn’t really green, it’s just too awesome to pass up. An architect in NYC decided to go the extra mile – or 10 – when working on one family’s $8.5 million Fifth Avenue apartment. The luxurious digs don’t just house the family’s four children, dog and a lot of very expensive [...]

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