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Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video)

Image credit: Peak Moment TV When Jan Spencer destroyed his suburban driveway, turning it upside down to create a water feature, and create room for a permaculture garden, it must have been hard to predict the chain reaction that would follow. Having now planted a (semi-successful) edible garden on his carport roof, established some serious rainwater harvesting infrastructure, and ripped out his laurel hedge in favor of a food forest, the man is moving on to create similar change in the rest of his neighborhood. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video)

Lumenhaus From Virginia Tech Wins Solar Decathlon Europe

image via inhabitat inhabitat cheers USA! USA! as Virginia Tech wins the Solar Decathlon over some tough competition. It is a surprising win for a number of reasons; the unit was in the Solar Decathlon 2009 and did not win there. To my eye, it was over-teched, with its aerogel walls electrochromic glass and ground source heat pump for an 800 square foot unit- serious engineering overkill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lumenhaus From Virginia Tech Wins Solar Decathlon Europe