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Environment

Intelligent Design: Air-conditioning free desert living

June 22, 2009

This desert house stays cool with an innovative design that uses shade and wind, and not air-conditioning. Efficiency through common sense: I love it.

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Why Density is a Conservative Value

June 15, 2009

I read Gwnn Dyer’s “Climate Wars” over the last weekend and will be posting on some of its sustainability themes over the coming weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to share a quick thought on “density.” In a sustainability context, density means increasing the number of people living & working in a given space. Density [...]

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Harvest Wind Power from Electrical Poles

June 10, 2009

French designers/engineers have proposed retrofitting existing transmission towers with wind turbines as a means of generating green power without requiring more land to be ceded to wind farms (part of the Next Generation competition). The pictures below speak for themselves. I imagine the prairies in particular would have vast stretches of power lines that would [...]

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