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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 […]

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    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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