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Eco-Friendly Living: 10 Cool Urban Infills (Homes) Around the World


Do you yearn to do some environmentally-sensitive and architecturally impressive living in the city? Check out these ten innovative (and very cool) homes around the world that are sustainably built in extremely tight and awkward urban spaces that would’ve otherwise been unused — from San Francisco to Osaka, Japan. They’re called urban infills, and we’d like to live in one, please. … More »

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Eco-Friendly Living: 10 Cool Urban Infills (Homes) Around the World

The MetaEfficient Kitchen


The kitchen is often the heart of a home – it’s one of the most-used rooms in a household for both working and socializing, so shouldn’t it be as functional and energy-efficient as possible?  Here is a collection of design ideas and products, both big and small, to help you create a beautiful and efficient [...]

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Chicago Center For Green Technology: Sustainable Development Leader


Great ideas for sustainable development sometimes just remain abstract concepts – that is, until they’re put into practice where they can serve as a showcase for their real potential.  Such was the case with Chicago’s Center for Green Technology, the country’s first LEED Platinum municipal building – and an inspiration for subsequent development both in [...]

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The Most Efficient Public Swimming Pool In The U.S.

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  • August 27, 2010

A community swimming pool called the Richmond Plunge has just opened in Richmond, California, and it may be the most efficient swimming pool in the country. The Richmond Plunge has many efficient features: it’s heated by solar collectors, it’s entirely chlorine-free, and the building is powered by solar panels on the roof. The Plunge is [...]

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Best Solar LED Lawn And Garden Lights


Since LEDs are an efficient light source and draw far less power than traditional bulbs, they are perfect for off-the-grid applications where solar cells charge a battery that powers the lamp. Large-scale applications of this concept include LED road lane markers, but smaller-scale projects like lighting your lawn or garden are perfect uses for them [...]

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Chicago’s Green Alley Initiative


Urban alleyways. Grubby places that only scrappy cats or cop-show perps could love, right? Not in Chicago, where the Department of Transportation is giving them some serious TLC with its recently implemented Green Alley Program. This city-wide renovation initiative will offer some surprising environmental benefits and improve quality of life for residents.

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World’s First 100% Solar-Powered Stadium

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  • May 15, 2009

A couple of years ago, we wrote about a 1.3 megawatt solar-powered stadium in Switzerland. A new solar powered stadium has been built in Taiwan for the 2009 World Games in July. Designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, the stadium incorporates 8,844 solar panels on the roof. The roof will generate enough energy to power [...]

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