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• Sustainable Design Awards: the architect on St Moluag’s

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 489
  Not much more than 24 hours to go to the close of the public online vote in the Argyll Sustainable Design Awards 2009.In the run up to the end of the contest for the awards we are featuring each of the four architects who designed one of the finalists in what has proved a very [...]
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• Happy Thanksgiving From Inhabitat!

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! We can’t be believe that Thanksgiving has already come round again, and as we savor the holiday with friends and family we’d like to take a moment to pause and give thanks for all of the great things that the past year has brought! It’s been an incredible year for the Inhabitat ...
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• Algae Could Be the Key to Ultra-Thin Biodegradable Batteries

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels , but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries. Read the rest of ...
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• Ciannat Howett at TEDx Atlanta

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 134
  Click here to view the embedded video. When I wrote about Eric Lewis my prior TEDx post , I was supposed to continually update you with video’s from the conference/gathering here in Atlanta. However, I’ve been waiting to write about the lecturer’s so that I could include video footage which was taken by ...
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• Sustainable Design Awards: the architect on Mull Theatre

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 489
  Online public voting in the first Argyll Sustainable Design Awards 2009 closes this Friday - 27th November.In the run up to this, we are featuring each day a focus on the architect responsible for each of nthe four finalists in a category that has attracted a great deal of attention and [...]
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• Rolling Green Roofed Sports Park Rises in Slovenia

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Since Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004, its capital city Ljubjana has lead the way in economic and social development. Unlike other nations who have just begun to find wealth and the new construction that comes with it, the Slovenes remain conscious of the urban and social impact of what they are breaking ...
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• Tiny Tabletop Cardboard Christmas Tree from Cloudgate Design

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Last year Cloudgate Design brought us the Cardboard Christmas tree , and this year they’ve just launched the all new SMALL Cardboard Christmas Tree , which at 1 ft tall makes a great gift, is easier to transport, and works well as a table centerpiece. Like its larger 3 ft. tall predecessor , the SMALL tree is a ...
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• IES Unique Virtual Environment Energy Modeling Software offers an Easy to Use Interface: buildaroo.com

  
  Revit3D.com - BIMBoom Revitlution — Authority: 483
  IES makes my favorite BIM software. Its amazing what they can do with a Revit model for sustainability calculations. Heres a little more information. Let me know if youd ever like a demo or pricing.  This is truly inspiring software for anyone looking to get into green building design and analysis.  It is even ...
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• Sustainable Design Awards: the architect on Portavadie Marina

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 489
  As we move to the close of online public voting this Friday (27th November) on the Argyll Sustainable Design Awards, we are running a series of features every day this week on a category that has attracted a great deal of attention and votes - the ‘New-build non-residential’ category - the public buildings.We’re ...
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• Bruce Whitaker Sharpens Axe, Eyes Giant Turkey

  
  Friends For Fullerton's Future — Authority: 436
  If it walks like a turkey and gobbles like a turkey... Here’s a great youtube clip showing Fullerton Friend and Planning Commissioner Bruce Whitaker argue against the ridiculous Richman housing project that intends to provide enormously subsidized houses to people. This “project” has waddled and ...
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• UrbanBuds: Soiled Suitcases Grow Food

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Gionata Gatto , an Italian designer based in the Netherlands, has soiled and seeded suitcases and such for gardening on the go. Designed as a graduation project, UrbanBuds enlivens luggage to grow up to 36 different food plants, either as still life or meals on wheels. Get a handle on your personal baggage and turn ...
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• Annapolis’ floating wetland

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 126
  baltimoresun.com reports Annapolis intends to test a floating island in a local lagoon that, if successful, could help clean the water in the Chesapeake Bay , according to Mayor Ellen O. Moyer …… Floating islands are created from recycled plastics and planted with wetland plants that soak up nutrients ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Suburbs stop growing due to housing bust

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 126
  USAToday reports The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation’s biggest rapidly expanding suburbs. Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or more that grew by at least 10% every decade since 1970 lost population in the last two years. ...
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• Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Biofuels are often touted as the next big thing in airplane fuel technology , but solar power shouldn’t be discounted — as was recently proven by the team behind the Solar Impulse . The solar-powered plane just took its first test down the runway, and eventually the plane is expected to take a 20 to 25 day ...
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• Public consultation on Islay’s Bowmore Shoreline Project

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 489
  [ November 27, 2009; 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. November 28, 2009; 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] This could be the most significant development on Islay since the construction of the original planned village at Bowmore in the 1770s. The Shoreline Project is inviting Ileachs living in and around Bowmore to ...
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• The Aha! Blooper Reel

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 134
  Like any cinematic production, our video experiment at Greenbuild ‘09 elicited a fair share of blooper moments . We’ve compiled a few outtakes and humorous quips below. Click here to view the embedded video. Check out a complete selection of Green Aha! moments on  YouTube and  Life at HOK .
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• Ecological Agriculture: can it feed the world?

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  The latest edition of the Monthly Review (November 2009, Volume 61, Number 6) includes a paper from Jules Pretty is professor of environment and society at the University of Essex, UK . titled Can Ecological Agriculture Feed Nine Billion People? Below is an extract from the paper Something is wrong with our ...
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• Natural Swimming Pools: The Sustainable Pond

  
  Greenline — Authority: 115
  Natural swimming pools (NSPs) are a way to blend the sustainability and natural beauty of a pond with the functionality of a swimming pool. NSPs use biological filtration in lieu of the more common chemical or chlorine water cleaning systems used in most artificial swimming pools. The pools generally consist of a ...
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• Miami’s Rediscovery

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 134
  The HOK Miami office participated in the 23rd annual Festival of the Trees event. It took place at the Coverings Showroom in the warehouse district of Miami, which has earned LEED CI. Over 600 guests attended the festival in which the trees are auctioned off and the net proceeds fund scholarships for FIU’s ...
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