green building
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TreeHouse is like Home Depot with a green conscience
This one-stop green-renovation shop is really improving home improvement. Sorry Lowe's.
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By next year, you could go to work in a building powered by algae
It is literally a green building.
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Look at this f*cking hipster Starbucks
This Starbucks doesn't want to be like other Starbuckses. It's different. It's cool. It dresses better. It listens to better music. And it's totally into locally sourced materials.
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Geek legend hacks together an off-grid smart home
Loren Amelang is a pioneer in C++ programming, and his homebrewed live/work space is a monument to sustainable geekery.
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This house is so tiny, it’s practically two-dimensional
Here's a house that's like a wall with some empty spaces in which you can eat, cook, and sleep.
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Your next house could be made of pot
This North Carolina house is made of eco-friendly hemp-based bricks, and the company that makes them wants to start building a similar house in California. Throw in a natty hemp suit and Cheech and Chong’s marijuana-resin car, and you’ve got most of the recipe for an entirely pot-based suburban idyll.
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Meet the skyscrapers of the future: Band-Aids, balloon forests, and underwater spheres
This theoretical skyscraper, the winner of eVolo’s annual skyscraper design competition, would collect, purify, and store water in the Himalayas, helping to conserve and regulate it. It looks like a half pack of cigarettes in fancy holders, but it’s not even the weirdest-looking skyscraper, not by a long shot. Below are some of the strange […]
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Frank Lloyd Wright goes solar, posthumously
Taliesin West, the iconic desert home created by Frank Lloyd Wright, is about to go net-zero, which means it will produce as much energy as it consumes.
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House fit for a green: Sustainable home construction booms
With the value of the residential green building market expected to grow fivefold by 2016, builders say going green is great for their business.