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The South Gets its First Certified Passive House (Beats California to the Punch)

Images: Green Building Advisor Born in Boston and living in Nashville, I’m continually struck by the fact that Southerners expect air conditioning to be everywhere and running at all times. Enduring the summer swelter just isn’t the way it’s done down here. New Yorkers and Bostonians, on the other hand, seem almost competitive over who can endure more heat. Corey Saft, an architecture professor at the University of Louisiana, has built himself a home that will keep him cool, eve… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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20 Solar Cell Prototypes That Could Change the Future (Slideshow)

Photo credit: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti & Daniela Droz. The ideas for solar power are endless, the results of the workshop “Sunny Memories” prove. Encouraged by the ongoing solar energy revolution, the EPFL+ECAL Lab along with three major design colleges asked students to experiment with dye-sensitized solar cells . More than 80 students from the California College for the Arts in the U.S., the Royal College of … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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