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On March 2nd, in an effort to promote sustainable housing techniques, Philadelphia’s Pyramid Club is hosting Philly Earthship, a free lecture about off-the-grid, sustainable housing. The event also includes a screening of the film, Garbage Warrior, about architect Michael Reynolds, who created the earthship concept. An earthship is essentially a passive solar home, situated for maximum southern exposure. The home’s south face is usually glass, and absorbs light from the sun. The earthship’s fo
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A solar power milestone was reached on Tuesday when First Solar Inc brought its manufacturing costs for solar panels down to $1 per watt. But a study from the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs suggests that this might be the bottom for a price-point
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While any structure built in a way that lessens its footprint is welcomed, some of the buildings that people try to turn green simply make no sense. LEED certification ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ), in all its greatness, does not take the building’s intended purpose into account; this leaves us with some hilarious, unabashedly self-contradicting buildings. Here are the ten of the most laughable green buildings. 1. BP’s Helios House Gas Station - Los Angeles, Cal.
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Solar Roadways , the developer of structurally engineered solar panels that are driven upon., has been nanmed one of five finalists for the Best Enabler Award for Green Engineering category in the 2009 EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards. Solar Roadway”s concept is to replace all current petroleum-based asphalt roads, parking lots, and driveways with Solar Road Panels that collect and store solar energy to be used by homes and businesses. Each individual pa
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When I was living in Ontario five years ago, I bought a cordless lawnmower. But I haven’t seen one here in South Africa - until now. The Brio cordless electric 500 Rotary Lawn Mower is available from BesTech Outdoor for just under R4,000. They have other cordless garden tools too. Since most of South Africa’s electricity is produced from coal, this is not emission-free gardening - but the emissions from the coal-generated electricity used by the mower is far less than what spews out of petrol-d
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