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Postwar suburban sprawl, courtesy of George Bailey and his Savings and LoanA lot of the Libertarian types think that those of us promoting higher densities and urban life are trying to limit freedom of choice.Joe Mysak wrote in Bloombergabout us:

The notion appeals especially to people who like to think they’ll be in charge after the revolution. They would apparently love nothing more than for the population to be confined to Soviet-style concrete-block high-rises and be forced to take state-run streetcars to their little jobs at the mill.

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Postwar suburban sprawl, courtesy of George Bailey and his Savings and LoanA lot of the Libertarian types think that those of us promoting higher densities and urban life are trying to limit freedom of choice.Joe Mysak wrote in Bloombergabout us:

The notion appeals especially to people who like to think they’ll be in charge after the revolution. They would apparently love nothing more than for the population to be confined to Soviet-style concrete-block high-rises and be forced to take state-run streetcars to their little jobs at the mill.

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Kapor Klein House model, Marcy Wong Donn Logan ArchitectsThere is a fight going on in Berkeley, over the construction of a house for Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus and creator of Lotus 123, the program that made personal computers useful. Neighbours, architects and others call it “absurd” that the house should be called green, saying its 10,000 square feet is far too big. One neighbour complains that “green building begins with using ‘just enough’ and preserving what already exists. Clearly the idea of ‘just enough’ is not part of the design concept.”

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Kapor Klein House model, Marcy Wong Donn Logan ArchitectsThere is a fight going on in Berkeley, over the construction of a house for Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus and creator of Lotus 123, the program that made personal computers useful. Neighbours, architects and others call it “absurd” that the house should be called green, saying its 10,000 square feet is far too big. One neighbour complains that “green building begins with using ‘just enough’ and preserving what already exists. Clearly the idea of ‘just enough’ is not part of the design concept.”

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Kapor Klein House model, Marcy Wong Donn Logan ArchitectsThere is a fight going on in Berkeley, over the construction of a house for Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus and creator of Lotus 123, the program that made personal computers useful. Neighbours, architects and others call it “absurd” that the house should be called green, saying its 10,000 square feet is far too big. One neighbour complains that “green building begins with using ‘just enough’ and preserving what already exists. Clearly the idea of ‘just enough’ is not part of the design concept.”

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Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew LeckySo many of the green houses we see are single family, alone in the country, but there are more and more developers and builders trying to build green communities. On Munro court in the mining town of Castlemaine, outside of Victoria, Australia, eight lovely little modern houses have been designed by Robyn Gibson ofLifehouse design.None are over 1500 square feet, and it is sort of a cooperative, sharing responsibility for the communal vegetable gardens, emptying the compost and feeding the “chooks” [sic]

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Puertollano’s wrenching fall points to the delicate policy calculations needed to stimulate nascent solar industries and create a stable green industry.
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Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew LeckySo many of the green houses we see are single family, alone in the country, but there are more and more developers and builders trying to build green communities. On Munro court in the mining town of Castlemaine, outside of Victoria, Australia, eight lovely little modern houses have been designed by Robyn Gibson ofLifehouse design.None are over 1500 square feet, and it is sort of a cooperative, sharing responsibility for the communal vegetable gardens, emptying the compost and feeding the “chooks” [sic]

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Japan, South Korea and China are investing about $9 billion this year in infrastructure and information technology to make electricity networks more efficient, creating lucrative opportunities for niche technology and equipment providers.
By Reuters
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NoMix Toilet. Photo: FlickrTechnological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet!Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had “NoMix” toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity),andwe could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels). So what’s stopping us from going NoMix?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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