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  • Thumbnail image of Hyper-Efficient Wyoming Home Bucks 90% Coal-Powered State Trend

    Hyper-Efficient Wyoming Home Bucks 90% Coal-Powered State Trend

    Who thinks advanced energy efficiency when they think of 90% coal-powered Wyoming? Not me. The average house in the state has to use over 800 kilowatt hours a month of the dirtiest energy in the US, to heat and power the same iPods and so on that in the other states take half those kilowatts […]

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  • Thumbnail image of Elegant, Energy-Efficient & Low Carbon-Footprint Cooking

    Elegant, Energy-Efficient & Low Carbon-Footprint Cooking

    One gorgeous and elegant way to reduce your use of the energy that causes climate change is by switching to an induction cooktop. These use a high-powered magnet to heat food, not an electric heating element.

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  • Thumbnail image of Half buried house in Mexico profits from soil’s thermal mass

    Half buried house in Mexico profits from soil’s thermal mass

    In desertlike regions temperatures often go to extremes, with differences between daytime and nighttime of about 20-30 degrees Celsius. This is the case with this golf club community house in Chihuahua, northern Mexico. To take advantage of the soil’s thermal mass and reduce temperature variations, the architects of PRODUCTORA partially buried its 375 sq.m. into the […]

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