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• Amazing Tiny Tack House Was Built Entirely by Hand

  
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• Our favorite tweets of the week: May 6, 2013 – May 12, 2013

  
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  Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we ...
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• Check Out Our Favorite Green Designs Now on Display at BKLYN Designs

  
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  BKLYN Designs kicked off yesterday morning with over 30 Brooklyn-based designers showcasing their latest work at St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO. Inhabitat was on the scene checking out some amazing designs, including rustic tables made from recycled aluminum, chairs made from reclaimed wood and adjustable, magnetic ...
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• INTERVIEW: With Bridgette Meinhold, Author of ‘Urgent Architecture’

  
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  When Inhabitat’s Architecture Editor ,  Bridgette Meinhold , heard about the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the massive devastation it caused, she wanted to help, and was drawn to start investigating different options for temporary shelters and disaster relief housing. This exploration gradually broadened to a ...
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• Oman’s Sustainable GU Tech Campus Scoops Coveted Construction Prize

  
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  Oman is a small nation bordering Abu Dhabi on the Arabian peninsula; it has a long coastline and one of the largest populations of endangered Loggerhead turtles on earth. It also subsidizes energy and water,  essentially arresting any kind of sustainable development . There’s no incentive to conserve something ...
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• MSDModern’s Firefly Pendant Will Add a Touch of Color to Any Space

  
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  MSDModern ’s  Firefly pendant is a contemporary take on the popular ombre trend. Skillfully blown by expert artists, the Firefly comes in a variety of colorful and unique shapes, including: flared and scalloped, slender and sleek, and tuliped. This lamp is sure to add a chic, colorful and artistic aesthetic to ...
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• No-Win Situation for Agricultural Expansion in Amazon

  
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  The large-scale expansion of agriculture in the Amazon through deforestation will be a no-win scenario, according to a new study. Published today, 10 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters , it shows that deforestation will not only reduce the capacity of the Amazon’s natural carbon ...
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• Shifting Sands Power Stellar LED Lights by Danielle Trofe

  
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  The only thing more abundant than sun in the Middle East and North Africa is sand. Used in the production of Markus Kayser’s 3D printer and to make Algerian building bricks , sand is useful for a host of applications – including lighting. We would never have dreamed this up ourselves, but Danielle Trofe ...
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• Nurseryworks Stylish District Crib Transforms Into an Adult-Sized Desk or Daybed

  
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  The gorgeous District Crib from Nurseryworks gives repurposing a whole new meaning. Not only is this amazingly designed crib made with repurposed white oak from an Alabama train depot, but once your baby outgrows the crib, it seamlessly transforms into a beautiful adult-sized desk or may be converted into a ...
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• Letters & Links from Students

  
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  The following note comes from Layla Russell, who works with young students interested in solar energy. When I asked Layla to describe the nature of the links she and her students had sent, she wrote, “I think the best way to describe how they found them useful would be that they all incorporate something either ...
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• NREL Quantifies Significant Value in CSP

  
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  For those wanting to understand the effects on grid vitality from renewable energy sources like concentrated solar power, this study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provides valuable information. Central tower solar thermal concentration in circular arrangement CSP with thermal energy ...
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• Commercialization of Polymer Solar Cell: Giant Leap Forward

  
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  A polymer solar cell is a type of thin-film solar cells made with polymers that produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect. Most current commercial solar cells are made from a highly purified silicon crystal. The high cost of these silicon solar cells and their complex production process has ...
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• Simple Methods May Help Bring Clean Water To Developing Countries

  
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    According to the World Health Organization , the lack of clean water accounts for the premature death of 1.7 million people a year. Harmful organisms, bacteria and pollutants are found in water supplies of developing nations, where governments lack the resources to implement widespread water sanitation. And ...
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• The Carma Project Makes a New Bike From Old Car Parts

  
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  Two Lisbon-based entrepreneurs have devised a way to build a new bike from discarded car parts – and they’re planning to ride it the same number of miles that the original vehicle drove to compensate for its air-polluting past. The initiative is called the Carma Project , and it was organized by Leo Burnett ...
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• Sunset Magazine to Develop First-Ever Sustainable Idea Town in Seabrook, Washington

  
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• Check Out Dog Tag Designs’ Hilarious Darth Vader Lamps at BKLYN Designs 2013

  
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  We never realized that lamps could go to the dark side , but apparently they can if they’re made by Brooklyn-based Dog Tag Designs . The furniture design studio has a penchant for taking unique objects (like this Darth Vader bust ) and turning them into tables, light fixtures and more. Dog Tag will be at BKLYN ...
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• perludi’s OTTOintheMOON Mobile Crib Converts to a Junior Bed and an Ottoman

  
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• The Slabs: Gorgeous Italian Pavilion Crowned with a Sky Garden Proposed for Milan Expo 2015

  
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• Bad Buildings Kill – Rana Plaza and the Case For Stringent Building Practices

  
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  Photo by Andrew Biraj for Reuters We’ve been closely following the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, where over 700 people have lost their lives when an eight-story garment factory collapsed on April 24th. Rescue workers are still pulling victims from the wreckage and the death toll continues to rise. “ Fast ...
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• Guest Post: Eco-friendly Lifestyle: Reasons to Make a Steel Building Your Home

  
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  Climate change issues have forced contractors to look for some eco-friendly solutions in order to reduce the carbon-dioxide that exists.  Alternative building materials such as steel framed buildings are becoming popular. Steel is used more now, not only for building commercial and industrial proper ties, but also ...
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