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House of straw passes fire test
A house built from straw-bales and panels of hemp has passed an industry standard fire safety test which exposed it to temperatures above 1,000C....
Architecture is the missing piece of climate...
The House passed their climate change bill last spring, and the Senate Environmental and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed their version last week. It now moves...
greenbuild 2009 day 1
The 2009 Greenbuild Expo has begun. More than twenty-five thousand participants from all over the world are in Phoenix to see the latest thinking in green...
The Ruins Of Detroit Industry Five Former Factories
The Ruins Of Detroit Industry Five Former Factories: Fisher Body Plant 21, Ford Highland Park Plant, Ford Piquette Plant, Hudson Plant, and the Packard Plant....
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greenbuild 2009 session detail 2
Here's part two of six reviewing the 2009 Greenbuild Expo and Conference educational sessions in detail. Please check it... more-
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greenbuild 2009 session detail 1
So far we've posted 2009 Greenbuild Expo previews, day to day coverage of events, wrap up, a run down of best and worst, and... more-
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greenbuild 2009 best & worst
A brief run down of event highlights and disappointments from the 2009 Greenbuild Expo held in Phoenix last week. Check it out... more-
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UCLA Extension – Cradle to Cradle
I've been developing a course for the UCLA Extension Certificate in Global Sustainability entitled Cradle to Cradle: Closed... more-
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greenbuild 2009 wrap
A final educational session, the closing plenary session, and a few final thoughts about who should own the green building... more-
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greenbuild 2009 day 3
Educational sessions, a final tour of the exhibit floor, and more interviews with sustainable product manufacturers - Richlite,... more-
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Ancient Aliens: History Channel's 2009 Documentary: The Pyramids
A highlight of the pyramids from the Ancient Aliens documentary... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFmd5YdvBRk-
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Walkable Urbanism is the Future of Real Estate
Last week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in... more-
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A Few Nice Buildings
Winners Announced at World Architecture Festival in Barcelona -- Winners Announced at World Architecture Festival in... more-
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Vertical Farms, a Tower of B.S.
-- Between 2008 to 2009, it seemed like every architecture proposal you saw was a vertical farm, or at least had a tuft of... more-
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The State of Architecture Education
A fairly interesting article on the state of architecture education. I don't think I consider this as much a crisis as the... more-
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Wales Millennium Centre
Here are some photos of the Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) in Cardiff, Wales (completed in 2004) by Jonathan... more-
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Inhabitat » Bus Shelter Made From Salvaged School Buses
Decommissioned school buses get sent to the scrapyard every day, so sculptor Christopher Fennell created this brilliant yellow bus... more-
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resource preservation – design
Part five of five concludes a series on resource preservation and organizing sustainable design. This final post focuses on the... more-
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greenbuild 2009 preview 4
http://threadcollaborative.com/threadpost/2009/11/greenbuild-2009-preview-4/ One week remains before the largest international... more-
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Has the Government Been Bailing Out Sprawl?
One of the themes of the financial and economic crisis we've faced over the past two years is that government, pressed into... more-
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Green Architecture | BTEK – Technology Interpretation Center
The BTEK is an interpretation centre for new technologies, aimed at student visitors. The goal is to create an exhibition space... more-
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Stunning Open Air Library Pops Up in East Germany
What began as an assemblage of 1,000 empty beer cartons pulled together by residents in East Germany has now evolved into an... more-
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$555 Billion Sahara Solar Energy Belt Takes Giant Step Forward
A giant step has been made in what will be the world’s largest renewable energy project. While previously just a grand... more-
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