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Dutch Waterstudios Rise Alongside Sea Levels
Here’s a look at the housing of the future. Don’t risk catastrophic damage as sea levels change; just design housing that floats. Waterstudio designer Koen Olthius is from Holland, where managing sea level has centuries of thought behind it. He has come up with a very innovative idea. An entire floating housing complex.
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Green Fridge Invention Uses Almost No Electricity
Nearly every household on Earth has a fridge that totally wastes at least 30 kwh of energy every month. Most of the energy is wasted every time you open the door. Cold air is heavier and falls out on the floor every time you open your fridge and warm air rises to fill the space [...]
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Not Your Fathers Mobile Home
The owner purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing the landscape return to its natural state. It had been a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley.
Then, the Rolling Huts were designed to be simple mobile structures able to roll into and set up on the site, yet to provide clearance for nature below each hut.
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Simple Tech = Common Sense Kitchen Design
At the other end of the design spectrum from the energy sucking gizmology that now pervades our lives; simple tech is quietly bringing back simplicity and sustainability as a worthwhile goal for industrial design. Here’s a good example; a low tech kitchen appliance that would go well beyond a simple energy star rating for efficiency.
This [...]
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A Steel Prefab Treads Lightly on a Desert Floor
Steel is just about the most recyclable building material on earth. You could be well reading this in an office building built with steel originally smelted from iron in Julius Caesars day.
So it makes good green sense to build eco prefab houses with steel…
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White Roofs Are Green
Come July, California law will require new residential sloping roofs to be light-colored cool roofs. Georgia and Florida already offer incentives to home owners who install white or light-colored roofs.
Why? White roofs are green.
White roofs keep things cooler naturally, so they save on air conditioning costs and cut carbon emissions. Painting your roof white could [...] -
Coal Mine Rehab Creates Tropical Paradise in Germany
Here’s an interesting idea. Take an old coal field and rehab it inside a solar powered glasshouse the size of a city block and put freestanding buildings inside the outer shell of glass and solar cells.
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Home is White Cube With Grass Roof
This is not as it first appears; a house tucked into a grassy mound, with a grass stairway down into the house. It is actually a freestanding box shaped house, with a private grass stairway to a grass roof in the middle.
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This Dome Home Can Resist Category 5 Hurricanes
the exterior shape makes it able to withstand a hurricane force wind up to 175 mph without sustaining significant damage.
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Consider A New Measure of Carbon Footprint
It’s the new pig on the block. We have the carsoffthe road. We have the lightbulbsreplaced. Next we will look at apartment pools and see them as a similar measure of pigginess. Worse in some ways, as the solution is simple.
Apartment pools should be covered at night. It’s the climate-friendly thing to do.
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