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Hally Thacher is offering a “a new, clean, simple concept in architecture”, the PopUP from House Port . Dwell includes it in their ” Houses We Love ” section, saying it addresses the demand for “low-cost, stylish, sustainable residential homes.” Inhabitat calls it “stylish” and “an affordable, eco-friendly, pre-fabricated kit”. It is a clever mix of two systems; an inexpensive portal frame supporting a ste… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Petaluma Pop-up Prototype: Affordable Kit House From HousePort
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Credit: Nasaimages.org . The U.S. Great Lakes have some competition. The moon. Yes, that old thing in the sky may hold more than all of the water contained in the Great Lakes, according to a NASA-funded study. Water bottling companies and thirsty-but-dry states are already scurrying to find ways of bringing the H2O back to Earth. Think of the money that could be made. “Moon Water: It’s out of this world.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NASA Says Moon May Have More Water than the Great Lakes
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photo: International Bird Rescue Center via flickr The impact of the BP oil spill on birds seems to be in the spotlight today… The American Bird Conservancy released a map of bird habitat threatened by oil and Yale e360 has a good interview with Melanie Driscoll of the National Audubon Society ‘s
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Oil-Soaked Birds Freeze to Death in Water, Bake to Death on Land: Audubon Bird Expert
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Today on Planet 100: Is the Oil Spill Energy’s 9/11 (Video)
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photo: Leo Freitas via flickr Last summer you probably saw a number of encouraging reports showing that deforestation in Brazil was declining. However as Mongabay points out, new satellite data shows that deforestation is again increasing and may be even higher than current imagery indicates…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Brazil’s Deforestation Again Increasing As Economy Improves
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TreeHugger has waxed ecstatic over the benefits of prefabricated housing as a way of delivering better quality with less waste and energy, and we hoped at a lower price, yet somehow the industry never delivered what it promised. There were a couple of problems that were never resolved:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hybridcore Homes May Be the Best of Both Worlds Between Prefab and Site Built
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Image credit: Channel 4 Only last month we heard, via Food and Wine , about eating dirt as the latest weird restaurant trend . And it seems this magazine, which is usually a champion of unbridled luxury, and even excess, is on somewhat of a sustainability kick these days. Sure, there are still plenty of ads for cruises and SUVs and living the high life, but they are interspersed with articles on solar … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Foraging Gets Trendy: But Is Trendy Sustainable?
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Photo by nicholas_t What exactly is the smart grid, why don’t we have it, and when will we? For most Americans, the smart grid is a mystery. That’s part of the reason why there is some bubbling hostility toward smart meter installation projects in many places, and smart grid pilot projects happening in (relatively) so few. Tom Raftery of GreenMonk is an expert on the smart grid. He took t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Understanding the Smart Grid: What’s Great and What’s Wrong with Electricity 2.0 (Video)
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Minneapolis new “Nice Ride” bike share add (slightly geeky) mojo and beats out Portland’s lack of imminent bike sharing plans. Photo via Nice Ride. When Portland lost its first-place, “friendly bike city” status to suddenly hip Minneapolis , Portland bike-friendly Mayor Sam Adams called it a, “clarion call.” Luckily, Portland had just passed a contentious but far-reaching new Bike Plan 2030 , with a few ways to possibly… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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6 Ways to Boost Your City’s Bike Mojo
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