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The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both ...more |
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“Wind, Water and Solar technologies can provide 100 per cent of the world’s energy, eliminating all fossil fuels”... Now there’s a rather ...more |
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ADEX is a proposed prefabricated module-based living unit. The construction and energy-resource systems contemplate ADEX’s adaptation to any given ...more |
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Owned by the Royal Dutch Navy, the Albatros building was formerly accommodation barracks for naval officers. The Navy were intent on demolishing it ...more |
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Correctional News 2010 — The former federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island will once again play a role in removing harmful elements from the ...more |
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The Leopold Center is a net zero energy building, meeting all of its energy needs on site. Despite the contrasts of Wisconsin’s four-season ...more |
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Germany has its first offshore wind turbine: the consortium of EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, DOTI (Deutsche Offshore- Testfeld und Infrastruktur GmbH), ...more |
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At about 8,000 feet elevation, Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins' house (RMI's original headquarters) serves as an office and a showcase ...more |
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This project is a proposal for the design of a house situated on a plot of land within the town limits of Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. It incorporates ...more |
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November 4, 2009 Boone, NC -- The Renewable Energy Initiative of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC installed a 100KW wind turbine ...more |
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By Mimi Zeiger, EcoStructure - An indoor swimming pool. It’s hard to imagine a less likely example of sustainable design. t may be fun for doing ...more |
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In any weather, the views from Seattle’s Pier 56 to the Olympic Mountains are nothing short of spectacular: cruise ships and ferries plying the ...more |
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In 1970, the Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti, an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona, 70 miles north of metropolitan Phoenix. ...more |
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The Ardrossan wind farm has become a much visited landmark in Scotland. About 40 miles southwest of Glasgow within North Ayrshire, 15 wind turbines ...more |
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The 5,200 square-foot building is burrowed into the site to gain as much of the thermal benefit and barrier to heat as the earth can provide. This ...more |
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The Audubon Center at Debs Park in Los Angeles is a cutting-edge green building that is a model of sustainable architecture. The 5,023 square-foot ...more |
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AustriaHaus uses approximately one-tenth the energy of a similar-sized building that uses standard North American construction techniques. The energy ...more |
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Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland, designed as a collaboration between global architects Populous and Dublin‐based architects, Scott Tallon Walker ...more |
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The BaleHaus, designed by White Design Architects, uses ModCell Straw cladding panels, to provide a super-insulated home, made from locally available ...more |
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The design of the Bank of America Tower in New York City is an environmentally friendly skyscraper, using technologies such as floor-to-ceiling ...more |
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The Zero Energy Idea House at Bass Cove, in Washington State, will provide approximately 5 kW of electricity to the home from its rooftop ...more |
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Beacon, N.Y., a one-time industrial hub perched on the Hudson River, is hedging its future on the buildings of its past. The slow yet steady ...more |
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"The Bernheim Visitor Center represented a magical opportunity; a chance to design a building like a tree. Made up of biological and technical ...more |
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The Bertschi Center is a pre-kindergarten through 5th grade independent school located on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The school has grown steadily ...more |
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In 2009 Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles celebrated its 60th anniversary by adding solar panels. It seemed fitting that to celebrate its ...more |
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by Mother Earth News Editors
Mother Earth News
June 1985
In our last issue, we reviewed the progress made at — and plans for — MOTHER's ...more |
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The BrightBuilt Barn is an attempt to push the envelope of sustainable design. It is the practical outcome of an in-depth collaboration between ...more |
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The Brooklyn Bowl takes on sustainability in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where it was possibly the first “green” bowling ...more |
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In 2008 David Friedman published on his blog Ironic Sans a design concept for something that he called The Bulbdial Clock. It's like a sundial, but ...more |
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All over the world, cities are installing solar-powered bus shelters. In Tucson, Arizona, for example, Sun Tran transit bus shelters utilize solar ...more |
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Construction began on the $500 million new building on September 12, 2005, while the exhibits were moved to 875 Howard Street for a temporary museum. ...more |
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Born of a predilection to serve healthy food, organic coffee, and an array of other culinary creations, in August 2009, Claire’s on Cedros bakery ...more |
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Utility scale solar farm commences operations in California, USA.
CalRENEW-1, the first utility-scale photovoltaic solar project to be ...more |
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Earth Times/Ann Kohut - Dec. 1, 2009 – Come take a walk on the “Wild Side” … or a roll, a climb, a slide or a swing. Those are just a few of ...more |
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Now that spring is beginning to emerge in the northern hemisphere, backing and camping will be on the minds of many nature-lovers. Roger, from Green ...more |
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First planted in 1980, Cave B Winery is a boutique vintner located in the Columbia Valley wine region in the very center of Washington State. While ...more |
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A mobile phone base station from Alcatel Lucent could reduce the carbon footprint of networks by combining renewable energy sources. Alcatel Lucent ...more |
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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) headquarters, also known as the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, was designed in 1997. Back then, green ...more |
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Before renovation of this 1959 high school, the south façade glazing was exposed to direct solar radiation, causing the classrooms to overheat on ...more |
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Doug Snower's neighbors in Highland Park stared hard when the silver and blue wind turbine first appeared on his garage roof. While it could pass for ...more |
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Built in 1962 in Manchester(UK) to host the British insurance company CIS Ltd. head quarters, the CIS Tower was suffering the from its 40 years ...more |
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The Community of Civano, located in the southeast part of Tucson, is, according to its planners, "an antidote to urban sprawl's five banes: loss of ...more |
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Millions have passed through the Galleria at Erieview in Cleveland, Ohio, sun glinting on its barrel-shaped glass roof. But it took a nurseryman's ...more |
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By creatively manipulating the angles and levels of exterior surfaces on this modest Polish country house, architect Peter Kuczia achieved ...more |
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New South Wales, Australia is the site of a pilot project where solar thermal technology reduces the use of fossil fuels. Coal and solar generate ...more |
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An innovative building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPV/T) application has been installed on the new John Molson School of Business (JMSB) at ...more |
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Mickey Muennig, Big Sur architect, looks out from his latest sod-roofed, organic house and sighs. Nature seems more intense out here, almost ...more |
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The city of Melbourne intended CH2–the Council House 2 building, which opened in August 2006–to exemplify the best of high-performance, ...more |
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Daneshill House is a purpose-designed local government office building which was constructed in the 1950’s as part of the Stevenage ‘new town’ ...more |
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By Simone Kaiser and Michael Fröhlingsdorf
August 2007
Spiegel Online International
Wind turbines continue to multiply the world over. But ...more |
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by Michael Dumiak - Architect Francis Kéré relies on simple solutions for a humble learning space near his hometown in West Africa where his Dano ...more |
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Within 6 hours deserts receive more energy from the sun than all the people in the world consume
in a year. The DESERTEC Concept will allow most ...more |
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The Devonshire Building is a solar building, that automatically opens and closes banks of shades on its south facing façade. The intelligent system ...more |
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Dick and Jane’s Spot is so popular that the City of Ellensburg, Washington, where it is located, created a ten-foot easement in 1991 that became a ...more |
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Only minutes from downtown Kansas City, Mo., lies an urban oasis: 11 acres of prairie, wetlands, and wildlife habitat surrounding the Anita B. Gorman ...more |
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Late in 1987 Florida's Disney World sought a new building to consolidate many of its leased offices spread around the Orlando metropolitan region. ...more |
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Adam Kreek is an Olympic athlete who won Gold in the Beijing games with Canada’s rowing eights. Adam is also a proud Team Power Smart Leader, and ...more |
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Dubbed the “habitat for the 21st century,” the Dome House is an igloo-shaped structure built from snap-together wall sections made of 100% ...more |
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Dosa Restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area offered tea and cookies to visitors on Solar Day in June 2010 to show off its super-green restaurant ...more |
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Drake Landing Solar Community is 52-house subdivision with all space and water heating supplied by solar energy. The solar energy is captured year ...more |
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The Druk White Lotus School is a small Buddhist school under the patronage of the Dalai Lama, and founded by His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa in ...more |
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by Francesca Lyman / Popular Mechanics - Electronic waste is the fastest growing category of trash in the U.S. and yet unlike paper and plastic ...more |
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by Mike Oehler
Mother Earth News
March 2004
Ninety frost-free days here in the mountains of Idaho close to the Canadian border are not enough to ...more |
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An Earthship is a type of passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials. Designed and marketed by Earthship Biotecture of Taos, NM, the ...more |
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A Latvian billionaire created a housing development in Cēsis, Latvia, where he purchased over 3000 hectares of wild forest, a terrain rich in hills ...more |
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The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse.[citation needed] Inside the artificial ...more |
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In the heart of Denali National Park and Preserve, six million acres of protected wilderness surround the Eielson Visitor Center, the most visited ...more |
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El Dorado Ranch is a large resort community entirely powered with an off-grid solar power system. It also offers the option of building with ...more |
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Jeff Salton wrote in EcoGizmo, November 2009: The recently opened Elleray Preparatory School in the Lake District National Park, UK, has three class ...more |
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The French inventor Georges Claude is largely forgotten today; if he is remembered at all, it is as the creator of the neon lamp. Yet one of his ...more |
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In the Enertia® Building System, solid Energy-Engineered(tm) wood walls replace siding, framing, insulation, and paneling. An air flow and access ...more |
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Johnny Cooke of Sustainable Green Builders of the Blue Ridge is letting nature takes its course in providing energy for his new home. A builder in ...more |
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This home features a vegetated roof, 2.4 kW grid-tied solar photovoltaic system, pre-plumbed solar hot water system, radiant floor heating on the ...more |
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ONE environmental installation by Envision Solar provides solutions for: runoff, light pollution, solar energy cogeneration, and urban heat islands. ...more |
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There's something so romantic about living waterside. Waking up to a dramatic view, whether from the banks of a lake, ocean, river, or even a tiny ...more |
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The Finch House is a remodel and addition by Doerr Architecture located at 71 South Sherman Street in Denver, Colorado that was completed in 2005. ...more |
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A wind tower for air exchange, a groundwater energy system for winter heating and summer cooling, and other innovations have earned an unprecedented ...more |
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Undaunted by the economic downturn, Martha Rose of Martha Rose Construction (MRC) has just completed four new, urban homes that are for sale and ...more |
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When Forrester Kurts Properties was planning the FKP Building, a 21-story high-rise office development in Brisbane’s central business district, ...more |
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ScienceDaily (July 19, 2007) — Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be ...more |
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by Nico Saieh - Continuing a long and distinguished history of floating homes in Seattle, this new floating home is located on Lake Union, in the ...more |
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There was no flip of a giant switch or flickering of lights. Over the last week, Florida Gulf Coast University’s long-awaited solar field has gone ...more |
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This document describes an energy efficient, solar-powered home that was built near Interlachen, Florida. The original owners/designers lived in the ...more |
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Florida Power & Light's construction of the 25-megawatt DeSoto Solar Farm in Arcadia is expected to pay big alternative energy dividends. Germany ...more |
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This is not your standard concentrating solar power plant; it uses no water, the environmental impact is minimal, estimated at less than two percent ...more |
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In the summer of 2009, Kate and John departed on a cross-country journey of discovery and celebration, hope and serendipity. Using a vintage 1962 ...more |
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Author: Alex Wilson/Environmental Building News
May 2009
The appeal of integrating wind turbines into our buildings is strong. Rooftops are ...more |
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Architect Robert Morris-Nunn has persistently explored passive and low-energy designs, and has applied his experience and skill to this hybrid ...more |
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By Karen Sprey / GizMag - A wind turbine that uses boundary layers instead of blades to generate power has been patented by Solar Aero, a New ...more |
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Over 300 sunny Colorado days per year and a constant temperature of the Earth at five to seven feet below ground level are the power sources of Geos, ...more |
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At the 2009 Solar Decathlon, Team Germany from Technische Universität Darmstadt started with a "focus on the façade," creating a house that is ...more |
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The world’s largest wind turbine – until 2011 -- is the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a ...more |
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One of the best examples of passive architectural design in the world. President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam inaugurated the CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green ...more |
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“Going Green at the Beach” set a record by meeting the requirements of these and other residential green building certification programs: - ...more |
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The Open PV Project is a community-driven database, fostered by the National renewable Energy Laboratory, of photovoltaic (PV) installations around ...more |
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One of the organizations best placed to make an immediate difference is PARTNERS IN HEALTH. They have operated medical facilities in Haiti for more ...more |
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The Great River Energy headquarters is a four-story, 166,000-square-foot building located on a 12.5 acre site in Maple Grove, Minnesota’s Arbor ...more |
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It's another brilliant day at the world headquarters of the hottest company on the planet. Some shirtless employees are playing a lunchtime game of ...more |
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As ski season approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, many resorts continue to find ways to offer more sustainable approaches to one of the favorite ...more |
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Photovoltaic(PV) Systems convert the sun's light into electricity. When the sun is shining, they are working. The more direct and intense sunlight ...more |
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Groundbreaking advancements in the realm of space engineering may soon see the moon sown with the first gardens to grow on the lunar surface. As part ...more |
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Habitat for Humanity International is dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built more than ...more |
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by Justin Cooper - They say a happy cow is a productive cow. And saving money on energy can make a farmer happy too. We visit an organic dairy farm ...more |
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The gateway energy center at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii commands a view of the Pacific Ocean any Hawaiian vacationer would envy. The ...more |
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The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Lab is 6,100 square foot renewable-energy research laboratory where students study, design, and evaluate ...more |
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Environmental Design + Construction - 2010 - Beneath the veneer of many newly crafted homes and crusty old dwellings, hidden dangers often lurk, ...more |
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A green gas station, you say? It’s the building itself, not what it dispenses, in this case – a bit of a paradox to some. Built in 2007 it is ...more |
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The Henderson Community Building relies on thermally-insulated concrete walls for its natural and green touches in the California desert. The ...more |
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Once up and running, Hocking Energy Institute will use half as much energy as a similar building. It's estimated to save Hocking College about ...more |
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The Hol Church project in Norway uncovered big challenges that were met when dealing with a historic, protected buildings in Europe. As this building ...more |
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by Geoff Williams, AOL Small Business, 2010 - Paul Hoffman collaborated with three nuns in Wisconsin to construct the Holy Wisdom Monastery, which ...more |
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The Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility was Puget Sound Energy's first wind farm in Washington State. PSE owns 100 percent of the facility. Construction ...more |
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The 160MW Horns Rev (Horns Reef) offshore wind farm has 80 turbines off the west coast of Denmark's Jutland peninsula. Horns Rev was the world's ...more |
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Texas has historically been known as an oil rich state. Now it has become the leading center for the wind energy boom that has been sweeping the ...more |
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The gorgeously green Beitcher Residence is a paragon of sustainable California architecture, showcasing a design partnership between eco-conscious ...more |
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The most powerful solar arrays ever to orbit Earth capture the sun's energy and begin the process of converting it into power for the International ...more |
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Inspiration for IslandWood came from the land itself, and the knowledge that half of Seattle School District children did not receive overnight ...more |
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By Ben Stewart - Jay Leno has been making his own power for almost two years thanks to a PacWind Delta II vertical-axis wind turbine mounted on the ...more |
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia is a 6.5-million-sq.ft. LEED Platinum project that consists of two parts: ...more |
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Solar Power Company Ausra Launches First Solar Thermal Plant in California in Nearly 20 Years
Bakersfield, California, USA
October 23, 2008
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Kohl's entered into a power purchase agreement with SunEdison for a twenty-year term in 2007. As of May 2010, Kohl's had 88 solar power systems ...more |
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Kroon Hall, Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies building on Science Hill, is ultra-green. Designed by Hopkins Architects ...more |
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The Australian city of Brisbane has opened what it claims is the world's first large scale solar-powered bridge, built at a cost of US$57.2 million. ...more |
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A lagniappe, in southern Louisiana culture, is an unexpected gift or benefit – a little something extra thrown in as a show of gratitude. The ...more |
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Lake Flower Apartments in Saranac Lake is a high rise apartment building (~9 stories tall) that provides housing to elderly people.
What is very ...more |
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A 7-kilowatt PV array helps power the remote Lamar Buffalo Ranch in Yellowstone National Park. The system is the main source of power for three ...more |
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A sustainable housing solution that blends comfortably with the surrounding landscape, and with a minimal carbon footprint, is being produced in the ...more |
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Lapa Rios is a successful eco-lodge, set under the canopy of the Costa Rican rainforest on a lip of land dropping 350 feet to the Pacific-side Golfo ...more |
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To most people from the mainland, the 50th state conjures images of honeymoons, mai tais, and Magnum, P.I.; but along the southeastern coast of the ...more |
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August 2009
Lieberose Park, Germany's largest solar park, and the world's second biggest, was inaugurated on Thursday on the site of a former Soviet ...more |
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With the option of being utilized as a backyard home office or guest bedroom, the LifePod is a compact showcase of advanced sustainability. Eight ...more |
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The heart of the concept for the Lighthouse is the ambition to create homes where the innovative environmental systems and construction methods do ...more |
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The Lighthouse is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt ...more |
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Katja and Adam Thom’s cabin, on an exposed post-glacial archipelago in Canada’s windswept Georgian Bay, is more than eight miles from the nearest ...more |
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A solar hot water system was installed on the St Denis Senior Apartments in Louisville, Kentucky, by SunWind Power Systems. Sixteen 32 sq. ft. ...more |
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The low impact, organic design, woodland home built by Simon Dale in Wales conjures images of Hobbits baking bread in tiny hand-made ovens and ...more |
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In the harsh Maine winter, this energy-conscious house produces its own heat, hot water and electricity from the sun that shines on its roof. In ...more |
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The Hungarian Pavilion, 92 World EXPO, Sevilla, Spain, lies along a north-south axis. Inside, two walls stretch across the building's diagonal. Each ...more |
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Manassas Park Elementary School is fundamentally designed around the premise that people, especially children, cannot be expected to preserve or ...more |
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Martha Rose Construction leads the home building industry by building Green High-Performance Homes in the Seattle, Washington, area. In March of ...more |
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Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in ...more |
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The Masdar Headquarters building will produce more power than it needs (an energy positive building). In fact, the solar roof (one of the largest in ...more |
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Mesa Verde is best known for a large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, houses built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along the ...more |
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By Sally Younger in Popular Science, June 2009 --
In the shadow of the state’s struggling automakers, the University of Michigan solar ...more |
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The team of researchers and designers based in London and at the Technical University in Munich developed the Micro Compact Home as an answer to an ...more |
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The vegetated roofs on a Mill Valley, California, home hop, skip and jump their way down three levels following the slope of the hillside. The living ...more |
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World Water and Solar Technologies (WWST) places of solar-powered water purification units throughout the world, but in particular, in war-torn ...more |
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The first Living Homes prefab in Santa Monica features a 2.4-kW photovoltaic system with gridpoint inverter and battery backup along with an ...more |
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The Monash Science Centre building at Clayton campus of Monash University was the winner of the 2003 Sustainable Architecture Award, presented by the ...more |
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The architecture department of the Swiss Federal Technical University in Zurich (ETH) and the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) put many heads together to come ...more |
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The NSERC Solar Buildings Research Network (SBRN), in collaboration with the Aéroports de Montréal (AdM), implemented an innovative combined solar ...more |
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Mountain Meadow Farm’s Bioshelter allows us to not only grow organic foods year-round but also to support plant and animal propagation in an ...more |
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By Robin Rogers, Solaripedia - Community Transit (CT) is the main public transit authority in Snohomish County, Washington, providing bus and vanpool ...more |
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Article from Arizona Solar Center describes techniques for passively cooling buildings in the hot arid region of the Southwestern United States. ...more |
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Solar panels and wind turbines will result in long-term savings for one Chicago apartment complex.
By Dan Rafter
Distributed Energy Journal ...more |
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Construction has begun on a zero-energy building in Portland, Oregon, that will include 18 apartments and ground-floor retail space for offices, a ...more |
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At six stories tall, the New Carver Apartments doesn’t exactly tower over the Santa Monica Freeway that zips past its windows. Yet the drumlike ...more |
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In 1979, New Mexico State University constructed a solar-powered furnace to research alternative means of energy. With alternative energy now an ...more |
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Bingham Ridge is a new residential development (February 2010) that integrates photovoltaic and solar products into construction of all its homes ...more |
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New Yorkers have turned the vision of a new greencollar economy into a realistic blueprint for implementation that other cities can follow - the NYC ...more |
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Background:
The Oberlin College community had a vision for their Center for Environmental Studies: it would be more than just a classroom building. ...more |
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Ohio University’s composting unit on the Athens campus is the largest in-vessel composting system at any college or university in the nation, ...more |
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The OKO House, designed by Youmehshe Architects, is the first house in the UK to be designed to utilise Vacuum Insulation Panels in a modular ...more |
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The Omega Center for Sustainable Living supplies all of its own energy needs, and its operation is carbon neutral. The self-sustaining building is ...more |
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Orchid Cityhomes is a duplex -- two connected rowhouses -- with shared walls in the garage of each home. Each residence therefore maintains a level ...more |
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Over eight years, working nights and weekends, architect Ryan Walsh completely gutted his 1925 bungalow in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Portland, ...more |
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This sustainability e-newsletter was authored and edited by Robin Rogers while she was the sustainability advisor at Otak, Inc. From January 2006 ...more |
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One day early in 2004, Robert Noble, an architect specializing in sustainable design, asked himself why parking lots in the United States weren’t ...more |
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The Parkview Green in Beijing is designed to cut energy use 40 percent, saving 5,000 tons of carbon each year, based on the country’s current green ...more |
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By Alex Wilson - Originating in Germany twenty years ago and drawing inspiration from the superinsulation and passive solar movements in North ...more |
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An alternative on-site waste recycling system that reduces pollution and creates safe and nutrient-rich fertilizer for gardens and farms. The typical ...more |
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A significant portion of Patagonia's existing surface parking lot was enhanced by adding a system of elevated photovoltaic panels, which both ...more |
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Our Reno Service Center was built in 1996 at a cost of $19 million. Located on the banks of the Truckee River at the site of the old Tahoe Timber ...more |
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The earliest known windmill design dates back 3000 years to ancient Persia where they were used to grind grain and pump water. Reeds were bundled ...more |
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by Karen Cilento/ArchDaily
We have shared architects’ different approaches to addressing the pressing food issue, from the highly conceptual ...more |
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Priene was a little town on the east coast of the Aegean, in ancient Ionia (now located in present-day Turkey). It is generally considered to be one ...more |
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This project is a major first: the only polar base operating entirely on renewable energies! Commissioned by the Belgian government, this represents ...more |
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The U.S. has many examples of superinsulated buildings that successfully harness the sun’s energy. However, while this country was enjoying low ...more |
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Solar energy is regarded as a green technology, but what happens to solar panels once they reach the end of their lifetime? Renewable Energy Focus' ...more |
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By Karen Cilento — For three weeks in October 2009, 20 teams of college and university students will compete in the US Department of Energy Solar ...more |
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The REI Round Rock store has an exceptionally efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and building envelope, more than 80 percent ...more |
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The immense size of the building, the site constraints, and above all the requirements to precisely maintain indoor temperature and humidity to ...more |
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PIONEERTOWN, CALIF. - HERE IN the high desert north of Palm Springs, the tranquility may be inspirational, but the elements can be harsh. Coping with ...more |
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From GreenSource -- Jeanne Gang, FAIA, of Studio Gang, had not designed a high-rise structure (not to mention a sustainable one) before Aqua, the ...more |
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Gizmag - February 2010 -- Prior to the launching of the outrageous Wally Island megayacht two years ago, Monte Carlo-based Wally Yachts was probably ...more |
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Since September, when the Ontario Power Authority began its generous payment for rooftop solar power, Toronto’s commercial roof acreage has become ...more |
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The world’s largest wind farm officially got up and running in October 2009, with all 627 towering wind turbines churning out electricity across ...more |
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by Bradley Hope, The National, 2009 - At the height of the property boom, developers in Dubai competed to outdo each other with increasingly grand ...more |
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by Katy Tomasulo
EcoHome Magazine
August 2009
When Bill Randall and Arbor South Architecture set out to design their first LEED-certified ...more |
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San Gorgonio Pass (33°54'38.89''N, 116°44' 04.57W), one of the nation’s deepest mountain passes, is located in the northwestern region of ...more |
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In 2000, Sanyo claimed it wanted to create a 3.4 MW installation, the world's largest PV system, as a message to the 21st century. Instead, the 630 ...more |
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The Saranac Building’s renovation was designed according to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ...more |
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By Joann Gonchar, AIA, Green Source Magazine, October 2007 --
Coast Guard: A Non-Profit's Redevelopment of a Former Landfill Serves as a Model of ...more |
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Two hundred solar panels with an output of 23 kW(p) and a large extensive green roof now grace the top roof of this large school for primary and ...more |
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The Sea Ranch chapel, commissioned by a private party, took nearly a year to complete. This non-denominational chapel is dedicated to the memory of ...more |
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The Seattle Aquarium unveiled Seattle’s first solar hot water demonstration project 16 June 2009, a system that will reduce the Aquarium’s use of ...more |
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A passive solar heated house utilizing thermal mass, direct gain and indirect gain, and a isolated gain green space. South facing windows coupled ...more |
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As the motoring world moves ever-closer to the welcome infiltration of electrically-powered cars, one thing holding them back is the availability of ...more |
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The Shift House is a Passive House design that sits on a plateau above Hood River and boasts panoramic views of two mountains: Mt. Hood to the south ...more |
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Meghalaya is a small state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means "The Abode of Clouds" and it occupies a hilly strip in the ...more |
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Lancaster, Calif. – August 5, 2009 – With 24,000 mirrors glimmering under the Antelope Valley summer sun, eSolar, a leading provider of modular, ...more |
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24H-architecture designed the Children's Activity and Learning Centre as part of the Six Senses Soneva Kiri hotel resort on Koh Kood, an island in ...more |
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The Smith House in Urbana, Illinois, is located in a cold, humid climate region. It is designed and built as a passive house that is well-insulated, ...more |
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by Bridgette Meinhold, July 2009 --
In passive solar design, a home is oriented with the main axis running east and west so that the home faces ...more |
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CoolEarth created an innovative way to harness the sun's energy. Instead of large expensive solar panels or costly concentrating mirrors, the company ...more |
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Israeli solar energy companies such as Solel Solar, Aora, Ormat technologies, and a host of others are now world leaders in the development of sun ...more |
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Some three billion people worldwide rely on dung, wood and charcoal to cook their food - with catastrophic effects on the environment. Cookers ...more |
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The Solar Decathlon challenges 20 college teams from around the globe in 10 contests to design, build, and operate the most livable, ...more |
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The Beautiful Earth Group, a Columbia Street “green” energy company in New York, has set up Brooklyn’s first solar power array for the express ...more |
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The idea of leaving the engine of a craft behind and using the endless fuel supply of solar or star light seems like a great way of reducing the mass ...more |
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Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) is the largest solar energy generating facility in the world. It consists of nine solar power plants in ...more |
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by JACK RUTTLE
Organic Farming and Gardening Magazine
August 1978
ALMOST ANY STRUCTURE that is built to look like a solar greenhouse will work. ...more |
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The Solar Impulse is a revolutionary concept that will push back the limits of our knowledge in the field of materials, energy management and the ...more |
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Tiny, flexible solar cells mimic leaves that are attached to a stainless steel mesh system. On the “front” of the leaves, PVs capture sunlight ...more |
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Real Goods Trading Corporation, a distributor of energy conservation and self-sufficiency products, wanted a showroom to mirror its retailing ethic. ...more |
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The Solar One central tower research facility was completed in 1981 and was operational from 1982 to 1986.
Solar Two added more mirrors and was ...more |
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The Solar Impulse experimental solar-powered aircraft launched on Wednesday, 7 July, 2010 and landed safely slightly more than 26 hours later in ...more |
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Not long ago, it took at least three hours for electricity to travel the 50 miles from Port-au-Prince to Boucan Carré on Haiti's remote Central ...more |
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Solar-powered trash cans are being installed in cities across the US. These garbage-crunching compacting bins are entirely powered by the sun and are ...more |
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By Todd Woody, New York Times Green Inc., 3 November 2009 --
The holy grail of renewable energy is a solar power plant that continues producing ...more |
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The Solar Roadways will collect solar energy to power businesses and homes via structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon, to be ...more |
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Put a needle, thread, and a button on the table. Now, turn out the lights. Try to sew the button on your shirt. Imagine you are suturing a surgical ...more |
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A small town center public toilet block is powered by solar panels and the town is selling electricity to the National Grid to offset its energy ...more |
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Lawrence Scarpa has an intriguing insight as to why solar-powered houses have yet to take the country by storm. Aside from the economic and political ...more |
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SolarAid is a non-profit that aims to enable the world's poorest people to have clean, renewable power using the sun. Right now, two billion people ...more |
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A distinguishing feature of a Solaroof building is the use of liquid bubbles to create insulation. When needed, a mass of soap bubbles are held ...more |
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by Kent Griswold - A couple of weeks ago we had a “Meeting of the Tiny Minds” and Bill Kastrinos of Tortoise Shell Homes told Jay, Stephen, ...more |
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The SolSource 3-in-1 is a combination solar cooker, heater, and electricity generator being developed by students at Wellesley College, Harvard, MIT, ...more |
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Architect Max Pritchard nestles a sinuous, low-rise, energy-efficient structure on a cliff overlooking the dazzling waters of the Southern Ocean. ...more |
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Limitless Clean Energy from Space
National Space Society
August 2008
The United States and the world need to find new sources of clean energy. ...more |
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One U.S. wind farm is on Stetson Mountain in eastern Maine. Each blade is 122 feet long. Each tower was lifted into place section-by-section by ...more |
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This passive solar straw bale home is featured in the book, "The New Strawbale Home", and received the Western Home Award from Sunset magazine. This ...more |
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The Light Blossom, also known as Sustainable City Light, is a street light concept that collects its own energy from the sun and wind by transforming ...more |
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Written by Anupam 2009
Sulfurcell, a manufacturer of solar modules, has announced the development of a sustainable office building, which proves ...more |
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Sun-Moon Mansion is the largest solar structure in the world in 2009. It will provide the main conference hall for the Fourth International Solar ...more |
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The long-awaited commercial deployment of the world’s most efficient solar technology looks like it will now be near Phoenix, in a 1.5-megawatt, ...more |
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Traditional daylighting involves architectural building design to introduce sun and sky illumination with little glare while producing modest heat ...more |
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After Austin’s Robert Mueller Airport moved across town in 1999, the old 711-acre site was slated for a complete overhaul. Based on principles of ...more |
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The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences’ spacious, brightly lit basement is filled with cheerfully painted pipes and the quiet hum of ...more |
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Beijing-based MAD Architects designed a convention center for Taichung, Taiwan. The project will consist of a series of mountain-like buildings with ...more |
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Taiyou Ropeway is a solar-powered cable vehicle concept created by designer Fredrik Hylten which is intended to replace the mountain gondola for ...more |
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by Robin Rogers - Now that spring is upon much of the northern hemisphere, farmer’s markets are awash in fresh produce that’s been nurtured by ...more |
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It’s an idea that has been tested: a giant sail is attached to a heavy cargo ship, or smaller boat, to capture wind power, thereby reducing fossil ...more |
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Karen and Griz Adams’ Craftsman-inspired stucco and limestone home fits right into its golf-course community outside San Antonio—with a few ...more |
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 76 percent of all power-plant-generated electricity is used to operate buildings, and half ...more |
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February 2010 by Francesca Lyman, New York Times -- Kevin Clayton, the chief executive of Clayton Homes, a modular home manufacturer based in ...more |
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The Bioshelter at Three Sisters Farm is a year round organic garden,compost facility, chicken house, potting room, kitchen and storage barn in one. ...more |
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by Michael Janzen, Tiny House Design Blog -- One man, one hammer, a 64 square foot solar home. Jeff has been living in his tiny house about 100 days ...more |
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French designers debuted Construisons Demain, or Tomorrow House, designed by architect Eric Wuilmot, at Batimat in Paris in 2007. The prefabricated ...more |
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Traditional Medicinals has a large solar power system at its headquarters in Sonoma County, California, making it the largest solar powered tea ...more |
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It usually starts as a joke. Even you think you're kidding, at first. A treehouse? Grow up. But then fantasy overwhelms your rational instincts, bit ...more |
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The Truro Residence is a custom home designed by ZeroEnergy DESIGN, based in Boston, MA. ZED is integrated architecture and energy consulting firm ...more |
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One of North America's most sustainable buildings —on the cutting edge of sustainable design and energy efficiency — was opened in May 2009 at ...more |
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There's a website called Our Passive House, where the owners are documenting the design and construction of the first Passive House in Utah. The ...more |
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SolarWorld AG completed the first solar power plant for the Vatican right next to St. Peter’s Cathedral. Some 2,394 solar modules will generate ...more |
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In the South of Freiburg, on the former area of a French barrack site, Vauban, a new district is being developed for more than 5,000 inhabitants and ...more |
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The assignment was to design a winery for White wines and Pinot Noir on a site already settled by a wind generator. The proposal was to create a ...more |
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Villa Old Oaks is a private residence located in a neighborhood of six larger villas in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The aim of the design was to open views ...more |
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Fourteen buildings have been narrowed down from 200 entrants from across the U.S. to compete for using less waste and reducing their energy ...more |
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Vote for your favorite house until 27 June. The Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 is a competition among nineteen top universities from France, Germany, ...more |
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Back in 2003 a housing development became California’s largest zero energy community. Built by Clarum Homes, Vista Montaña in Watsonville was ...more |
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by Ellis Woodman - The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education at the Centre for Alternative Technology is an impressive physical embodiment of the ...more |
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By Jessica Kellner - As two Chicago Art Institute professors create a living art project in an abandoned warehouse—a home much greater than the sum ...more |
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The Watsonville Water Resources Center is a functional, educational, and visual extension of the water recycling plant it supports. The new 16,000 ...more |
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In the high country of Karuizawa, Japan with pine trees and snow, under the eyes of a neighboring volcano, the sloping stone base of this wedding ...more |
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Editor’s Note: The Edible Schoolyard is extending its reach from California to New York. P.S. 216 in Brooklyn is in the process of building a ...more |
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Over the next few months, Rob Moody of Green Building Advisor will be following an infill project in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. It’s an ...more |
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In 1979, the national presidential home of United States of America – the White House in Washington, D.C. – was outfitted with solar thermal ...more |
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The Wild Horse Wind Farm provides approximately 230 megawatts (MW) of affordable, pollution-free electricity to the Northwest, which is equal to the ...more |
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Twelve thermopane, stained-glass windows designed by Toronto's artist Sarah Hall were installed in a Wind Tower on the University of British Columbia ...more |
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A windcatcher is an architectural device used for many centuries to create natural ventilation in buildings. The function of this tower is to catch ...more |
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Mike Treleven reports in Napa Valley Register (27 November 2009) on a problem plaguing wineries that have been adopting solar technologies. His ...more |
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This timber-framed private residence is nestled into the rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin. The architect designed a unique contemporary residence ...more |
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by James Murray, BusinessGreen - The 2010 World Cup in South Africa had plenty of firsts – first World Cup to be held in Africa, first winter World ...more |
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by Mindy Pantiel, Natural Home Magazine September 2009
When they’d tired of New York City in the 1980s, architect Tom Ward and his wife, Katherine ...more |
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He wanted a log home, and she wanted something more finished - so we worked with them to find a solution that satisfied them both. By combining ...more |
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The popular, classic Hannah Barbara characters Yogi Bear and BooBoo will be romping - via the silver screen - through the landscape in search of ...more |
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by Mike Hanlon, GizMag - SAIC's Yez concept car is the first automobile, concept or otherwise, that's ever been conceived to have a negative carbon ...more |
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Friday, 23 July, 2010 - The "Zephyr" solar-powered unmanned plane, which was airborne continuously for two weeks above the Arizona desert, made a ...more |
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On a bluff above Eagle Mountain Lake sits a rustic-looking house in the final stages of construction (in early 2010). The frame "casita" (Spanish for ...more |
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In creating the Zion National Park Visitor Center, the National Park Service (NPS), working with DOE's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), has ...more |
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PHILADELPHIA, June 15, 2009 – SRS Energy, a leading developer of sustainable solar roofing products, has installed the Solé Power Tile™ system, ...more |
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