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inhabitat.com - 6 hours ago
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The Tata Nano , a four-passenger city car
developed and sold in India, has become famous for...
being the world’s cheapest car . At just $2,200 a pop, the Nano has also gained a reputation for its fuel efficiency ( 51.7 mpg ). And while a ...
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Tata Nano: World’s Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid
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inhabitat.com - 18 hours ago
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The folks over at Honda just unveiled their
highly controversial new ultracompact car, the P-Nut (Personal-Neo Urban...
Transport), at the LA Car Show, and it really redefines what it means for a vehicle to have a small “footprint.” The new tinier ...
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Honda Unveils Ultracompact P-NUT Car
inhabitat.com - 19 hours ago
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This year, Copenhagen’s annual Christmas tree will light
up with the help of Danish citizens’ aerobic efforts....
The energy produced by the riders of 15 bicycles in Copenhagen’s City Hall Square will light up the 700 LED bulbs ...
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Copenhagen’s Christmas Tree Will Be Pedal Powered!
inhabitat.com - 27 hours ago
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While not totally prefabricated , the Manifesto House
by Infiniski utilizes pre-made materials like shipping containers and...
wooden pallets to create a totally rad modern house. Infiniski’s mission is to build homes cheaply and quickly using ...
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Modern Manifesto House Made From Wood Pallets and ...
inhabitat.com - 43 hours ago
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Kenya’s camels recently started sporting some unusual apparel:
eco-friendly refrigerators ! Some of the African country’s camels...
are carrying the solar-powered mini fridges on their backs as part of a test project that uses camels as ...
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Solar-Powered Camel Clinics Carry Medicine Across the Desert
youtube.com - 44 hours ago
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http://asmarterplanet.comSyracuse University, IBM, New York State launch one
of the worlds greenest data centers—a showcase of energy...
efficient design and fu...
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World's Greenest Data Center? (video)
1greenproduct.com - 2 days ago
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This woman appears to be calmly plotting her
eco-revenge... What do you get when you mix eco-friendly...
organic cotton with recycled PET fiber spun from plastic bottles? Thanks to Revenge Is…®, you get some seriously soft and comfy t-shirts for men ($32), women ($32) and tots ($21). ...
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Revenge Is… Organic and Recycled T-Shirts
franklingoose.com - 2 days ago
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Product Description Best Australian Toy ITSA Quality Toy
Awards 2000,2001,2003,2005,2006 Gold Awards: Right Start Best Toy(UK) 2005,...
Baby and Toddler(UK) 2005 Silver Tokyo Gift Fair 2006, Highly Commended Mother& Baby(UK)2005 Totally new concept to ...
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Prince Lionheart Wheely Bug
camptwinlakes.org - 2 days ago
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Camp Twin Lakes is a not-for-profit organization that
offers year-round recreational, therapeutic, and educational programs for children...
facing serious illnesses and other physical, emotional and life challenges. With its network of partners, Camp ...
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Camp Twin Lakes
inhabitots.com - 2 days ago
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Kids and candlelight don't mix -- so thankfully
the LED Motherboard Menorah by designer Roni Kabessa lets...
families 'light' the Menorah each night of Hanukkah without worrying about an open flame. A panel on the back of the Menorah controls each of the ...
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Kid & Eco-friendly LED Motherboard Menorah by Roni Kabessa
got2begreen.com - 2 days ago
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Flip & tumble, is all about simple ways
to integrate a bit of green into our lives....
Their reusable shopping bags are really the perfect gift for everyone on your list, but they also realize that you may need a little more diversity. They found some other ways to eco up the holidays, and ...
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Eco Friendly Gift Ideas from Flip and Tumble
inhabitat.com - 2 days ago
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A new development in the north of Boulder,
CO stands to be the first completely net-zero neighborhood...
in the US. Dubbed SpringLeaf Boulder , the project aims to bring net-zero homes “to the masses” by streamlining green technologies ...
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First Net-Zero Neighborhood in the US Being Built in Boulder
inhabitat.com - 3 days ago
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Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional
villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans...
to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical ...
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MAD Architects’ Urban Forest Skyscraper For China
design-milk.com - 3 days ago
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Recent Design Milk tweets: Regarding previous tweet: brother's
masters is in video game production. Plus, he's skilled...
in programming, design and server stuff. Thx! # 7 hours ago @megcellent a masters in video game production! ;) # 7 hours ago ...
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MovieTime Clocks by Kathy Mayer
inhabitots.com - 3 days ago
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Recently my young son has been demonstrating a
keen interest in the environment -- specifically with regard...
to weather. For a kid like him (or older kids showing interest in meteorology), the WoodStation Clock, designed by Sebastien Wallet for ...
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WoodStation Clock & Weather Station Helps Kids Tune in ...
techon.nikkeibp.co.jp - 3 days ago
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Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) developed the "C
ta," a lightweight three-seater electric vehicle whose body is...
made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). The vehicle was completed in March 2009 and exhibited at Tokyo Motor Show 2009 ...
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JARI Announces Lightweight 3-seater EV -
inhabitat.com - 3 days ago
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When battling 70 mile per hour blistering cold
winds, who couldn’t use a little extra coziness? These...
ingenious accessories offer a way to keep warm using the power of the sun! Called Endless Warm , the smart set includes gloves and a hat ...
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Solar Powered Knit Hat and Gloves Keep You Warm for Winter
concretecanvas.co.uk - 3 days ago
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Concrete Canvas have developed a ground breaking material
technology called Concrete Cloth that allows concrete to be...
used in a completely new way. Concrete Cloth was originally developed for the award winning Concrete Canvas Shelters, a building in a ...
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Concrete Canvas
designboom.com - 3 days ago
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urban forest, chongqing, china all images courtesy of
MAD architects MAD architects has sent us images of...
a new project, urban forest, located in chongqing, china. drawing on the mountainous landscape of the country, the commercial high-rise ...
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MAD architects: urban forest
inovaxion.com - 4 days ago
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Bienvenue sur le site de la Société INOVAXION.
INOVAXION, jeune société à vocation commerciale, se déploie sur...
le plan national et international, au moyen d'une offre dynamique et charpentée de produits innovants, de qualité et exclusifs à destination ...
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Distributeur de produits innovants
inhabitat.com - 4 days ago
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For cities that are settled below sea level,
dealing with copious amounts of rainfall year round can...
be a destructive challenge. But as the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute predicts, Rotterdam has an even damper outlook – over the next ...
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Waterpleinen: Recreating Rain Reserviors as Dynamic ...
inhabitat.com - 4 days ago
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Imagine a machine that could suck carbon dioxide
right out of the air and magically transform it...
into a usable product. It may seem like wishful thinking, but that’s exactly what researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories hope to do. ...
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Researchers Build Machine That Turns CO2 Into Fuel
inhabitat.com - 4 days ago
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Since Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004,
its capital city Ljubjana has lead the way in...
economic and social development. Unlike other nations who have just begun to find wealth and the new construction that comes with it, the Slovenes ...
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Rolling Green Roofed Sports Park Rises in Slovenia
green-talk.com - 4 days ago
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Photo by Fernando de Sousa . Usually my
Green Speed Links for the week are an eclectic...
group of green news. For some reason, green building news caught my eye this week. For those of you who are not as enamored with green building as I am, I sprinkled the links with other interesting ...
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Green Speed Links for November 29, 2009
sustainableindustries.com - 5 days ago
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Bainbridge Island offers incentives to Living Building Challenge
developments....
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Bainbridge Island creates green building incentives
tinyboxcompany.co.uk - 5 days ago
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Tiny Box Company Welcome to one of our
'Tiny' websites. Tiny Box Company only offers recycled packaging...
and eco-friendly packaging. We offer a huge range of recycled jewellery boxes, gift boxes, recycled presentation boxes, gift bags, recycled carrier ...
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Wholesale gift packaging including recycled gift boxes ...
dexigner.com - 5 days ago
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Contemporary architects are under increasing pressure to offer
a sustainable future....
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Design Ecologies: Sustainable Potentials in Architecture
dexigner.com - 5 days ago
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We are conditioned over time to regard environmental
forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds,...
and insects as inimical to architecture.
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Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments
planetizen.com - 5 days ago
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This post from Richard Florida looks at the
geography of obesity in America, and relates state obesity...
rates to the rates of death from various diseases. read more
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Mapping America's Fat
designspotter.com - 6 days ago
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"Colabrodo II°" is a product born inside the
meta-project Resign.Re Sign is “Re-use of signs”, a creative...
re-combination of signs embe..
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Colabrodo II°
we-make-money-not-art.com - 6 days ago
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I first thought Princen's photograph was fake. How
could this be real? Looking online for the location...
of the photo, Mokattam, i discovered the image is authentic. It's a suburb of Cairo, called Garbage City. A community of mainly Coptic ...
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Bas Princen, Mokattam Ridge (Garbage city)
craftingagreenworld.com - 6 days ago
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My little girlies and I are participating in
a handmade card swap with some other families through...
Kids Craft Weekly , and and I’ve been using the activity both to kick-start the Christmas card crafting for our own family and friends and to inspire my ...
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Tutorial: Make a Collage Window Card from Recycled Papers
reuters.com - 6 days ago
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By Justin Moresco - Earth2Tech The Department of
Energy earlier this week announced $18 million in funding...
grants from the recovery act to support innovation coming from small clean energy businesses. Here’s a look at three of the recipients focused ...
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3 Green Building Tech Projects That Landed DOE Small Biz ...
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reflector.com - 7 days ago
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The new dining hall at East Carolina University
will be the first building on campus to comply...
with ...
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New ECU dining hall is going green
inhabitat.com - 8 days ago
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Making environmentally conscious consumer choices can be difficult
when walking down supermarket aisles awash with hyper-marketed products....
Enter GoodGuide , who has just released a new barcode scanning iPhone application that gives shoppers the ...
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GoodGuide’s New iPhone App Scans for Green Products
inhabitat.com - 8 days ago
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Costanera Sur is a proposal for a vertical
zoo in Buenos Aires that transforms a pile of...
rubble into a towering pillar of falling water. Designed by Visiondivision , the project aims to reclaim debris left over from the construction of Buenos ...
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EDEN FALLS: Skyscraper Zoo Topped With a Waterfall
inhabitat.com - 8 days ago
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Conspiracy! Author James Hoggan realizes the ridiculousness of
that word, asserting that it “strains credulity and is...
offensive in its own right.” Yet the massive media sway that he details in Climate Cover-Up feels like something a ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Climate Cover-Up
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inhabitat.com - 8 days ago
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Last year Cloudgate Design brought us the Cardboard
Christmas tree , and this year they’ve just launched...
the all new SMALL Cardboard Christmas Tree , which at 1 ft tall makes a great gift, is easier to transport, and works well as a table ...
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Tiny Tabletop Cardboard Christmas Tree from Cloudgate Design
inhabitat.com - 8 days ago
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New homeowners in Florida, Louisiana and Virginia are
being forced out of their homes because of toxic...
indoor air quality . The culprit -toxic drywall from China. Tests are revealing that the toxic drywall contains hydrogen sulfide and ...
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Toxic Drywall From China Poisoning American Homes and ...
greenbuildingadvisor.com - 8 days ago
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Images: I just returned from the Greenbuild conference
in Phoenix. This annual event, now in its eighth...
year, has become the leading locus for exchange of information about the rapidly growing green ...
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Storing Heat in Walls with Phase-Change Materials
planetizen.com - 8 days ago
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Unemployment is spreading across the country like a
rash. This video tracks the changing unemployment in American...
counties since January 2007. read more
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Visualizing Unemployment During the Recession
inhabitat.com - 8 days ago
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The winner of the extremely exciting Re:Vision Dallas
competition to create a completely sustainable community on a...
run-down city block in downtown Dallas was just announced yesterday – and it’s incredible! “Fowarding Dallas,” submitted by Portuguese-based ...
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Forwarding Dallas Hill-Filled Design Wins Re:Vision ...
poppytalk.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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17. Inklore is offering Free Shipping November 27th
through November 30th on all orders of $20 or...
more. International customers will receive $5 off shipping. 18. Elizabeth Burritt is offering all customers a free gift with purchase. In addition, necklaces will come with a free fabric gift bag ...
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More Black Friday & Cyber Monday Promo's! (Part 2)
poppytalk.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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Here's a list of artist's/shops (participating at Poppytalk
Handmade) and who are offering deals this "Black Friday...
& Cyber Monday" weekend! Avoid the crowds and shop online! We'll be announcing more as they come in, so stay tuned. Lots of great deals! Also check out our 101 Reasons to Buy ...
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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Promo's!
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apartmenttherapy.com - 9 days ago
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"It's like being at the kids' table at
Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it,...
you don't have to talk politics...no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there." – John Hughes Read Full Post
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Good Quotes: Thanksgiving & Where We Prefer to Sit
