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Grand Rapids Art Museum: First LEED Gold Certified Museum
From inhabitat: One of the oldest museums in the Mid-West was recently relocated to an elegant new LEED Gold certified structure, garnering accolades from art aficionados and sustainability advocates...
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Bahrain World Trade Center With Three Wind Turbines
I don’t know if they just have more wind in Bahrain but the architect who design the future WTC in Manhattan overlook this possibility. The blades, each about 100 feet in diameter, are the first to be...
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Solar-powered glass houses
People could live in glass houses and look at the world through rose-tinted windows while reducing their carbon emissions by 50% thanks to QUT Institute of Sustainable Resources (ISR) research....
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DUMBO, Brooklyn Re-imagined
GREEN DEETS 016: Ben Harper 01 from George Spyros on Vimeo. This is the first episode of a four-part series by TreeHugger. It shows singer Ben Harper in conversation with TreeHugger founder Graham...
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1st LEED PARKING GARAGE: Santa Monica Civic Center
This beautiful and colorful building is the parking garage of the Santa Monica Civic Center. This building is on its way to becoming the first LEED certified parking garage in the United States. In...
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The World’s First LEED Platinum Museum
The Water + Life Museums complex in Hemet, California, has just become the first museum to break the LEED Platinum barrier. The building constructed by LA based Michael Lehrer Architects is worth $40...
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The 1HP Naturmobil Hybrid Vehicle
Green Vehicles. What are they? Well they can be hybrid vehicles or full electric vehicles. But can they be horse powered? Well this one can. An Iranian engineer based in Dubai has come up with...
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Eco in the City
As the environment continues to show its wear and tear, “eco-community” will likely become a household name. Yesterday CNN featured a sneak peak at some of the up and coming regions racing to become...
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solar powered community: this is green!
The first solar powered community of North America is located in the town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. They call it the Drake Landing Solar Community. There are 800 solar panels located throughout the...
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The Eco-Drop Ejecto-Shower
Here’s an invention that manages to be environmentally conscious and ridiculous at the same time. Figure 1, above, may look like a lovely work of art meant to evoke little wavelets formed by raindrops...
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