What better way to reduce your carbon footprint then to downsize your house, but the extraordinary thing about this story is that the Salwen family will donate a large portion of the sale of their historic mansion (about $800k) to The Hunger Project. It all started when their daughter Hannah noticed a homeless person on [...]
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Smart homes or home automation have been around for years, but how about a building that can generate it’s own power? Concepts from weburbanist shows some unique designs that can power itself with wind turbines. Integrate solar panels withing the siding or rooftops will create clean energy to meet its internal functions. Maybe it should be a requirement [...]
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There’s a touching story of Majora Carter who grew up in the ghetto of South Bronx, NY and wanted to make a change for the better in her neighborhood. I’ll let you hear it straight from her on this video. One of her endeavors is the Sustainable South Bronx Green Roof Project, to transform the [...]
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Out with the old and in with the new. Forget your traditional hundred year old colonial homes and smog cars of yesteryear , break the mode and create master pieces. Mitchell Joachim and his design team have come up with some of the most beautiful and fascinating concepts for tomorrows lifestyle. From home integrated with living [...]
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China will be spending billions of dollars trying to clean up the city of Beijing for the upcoming Summer Olympics. The national government has mandate it to be a green Olympic. With the huge boom in economic growth comes huge environmental problems such as smog and acid rain. To clean up it’s act for the [...]
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Don’t throw out those rags, recycle them. Manufacturers of blue jeans used to ditch those leftover cotton scrapes when making blue jeans but not anymore. It’s going to companies like Idahoblue, Victor Insulation, and Bonded Logic to recycle them for home insulation. The jean material is thicker which is good to deaden noise.
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Did you ever think that you can build a livable home with straw bale? Well sure you can and people have been doing it for years. With the cost of lumber and traditional building material on the rise, people are looking to alternative ways to build. You may not be able to get your HOA [...]
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