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Expanding and Redefining The Idea Of Home

Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable




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Biking Through Amish Country for Climate Ride

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).




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The Porch: Philadelphia Creates a New Public Space

A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city more human-scale and increase quality of life for people who work or pass through the area.




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Postgreen Homes Builds Gutsy Modern Townhouses in Philadelphia

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design




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Touring The Gutsy and Green PostGreen Homes In Philadelphia

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money




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Philadelphia's solar-powered trash cans: Great green idea or flawed design?

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?




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Classic contemporary wooden watches are made with lumber offcuts

Partnering with a forest conservation non-profit to plant a tree for every watch purchased, Analog Watch Co. creates chic timepieces out of recycled wood.




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Bike sharing comes to Philadelphia, finally! 60 stations with 600 bikes (video)

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.




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Why is Philadelphia such a bike success story despite having few bike lanes? (video)

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.




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Philadelphia taxes soda to raise money for schools and parks

The mayor has portrayed the controversial soda tax as a great source of revenue with which to do fabulous things for the city, rather than a benefit for public health.




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A plywood core runs through ISA's latest house in Philadelphia

They are as gutsy and gritty as ever.




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Hickok Cole designs timber towers for Philadelphia

The Timber Towers Project seeks to demonstrate the viability of a mass timber high-rise.




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ISA builds a tiny tower in Philadelphia

A great demonstration of how to develop tiny lots.




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Our urban problems aren't caused by restrictions on density, but by inequality

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.




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New York State lawmakers want to ban walking with portable electronic devices

There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem?




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The House at Cornell Tech deserves to be put on such a visible pedestal

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.




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It's time to get serious about dealing with cars and trucks in the city

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.




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Stadium in Qatar is demountable and relocatable and even has shipping containers

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.




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Nomadic home prototype built out of a shipping container (Video)

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.




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Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.




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True Studio is a 162 sq. ft. modern shipping container home

This cozy and compact dwelling out of Oregon packs one bed, one bathroom, a kitchen and porch.




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Industrial spaces and condos are neighbors in this Vancouver development with shipping container look

Another look at a controversial housing project.




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Province of Ontario introduces new penalties for careless drivers causing death

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.




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Inside the completed McEwan School of Architecture in Sudbury

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."




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Everywhere you look, the urban-rural divide is changing politics and stopping climate action

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.




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The Ontario Beer Store is a model for the circular economy

It's being killed the name of "convenience."




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Happy Simcoe Day: How good planning changed a country (and made room for a lot of Americans)

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.




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Rising Gold Prices Mean Deforestation in Peruvian Amazon Up 600%

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.




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Peru's Glaciers Melting, Decreasing Water Supply 20 Years Earlier Than Expected

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.




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3,000 dolphins found dead on the coast of Peru

Biologists believe that oil companies are to blame for the recent dolphin deaths.




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Peru's Oil Exploration Violates UN Guidelines on Uncontacted Tribes

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.




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Mysterious Animal Deaths Prompt Peru to Issue Health Alert

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.




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Innovative Foot-Powered Washing Machine Could Alleviate Poverty for Millions (Video)

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.




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Billboard transforms air into clean water in Peru (Video)

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.




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Alternative's spring collection features organic cottons made in Peru

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.




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Remarkable hotel hosts guests in clear capsules suspended 400 ft. on mountain (Video)

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.




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Team of super vultures deployed in Peru to battle polluters

Outfitted with GoPros and solar-powered GPS trackers, the crew of carrion-loving vigilantes is sniffing out illegal dumps in Lima.




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The 20 most popular reader's photos of 2019

From ancient trees and strange sea slugs to odd and adorable insects plus more, our most popular reader's photos of the year are a tribute to Mother Nature.




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Top 12 pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.




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Ben & Jerry's ice cream contains traces of controversial herbicide

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.




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Pesticide Fipronil in egg scandal shocks Europeans

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves




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Protecting plants by deterrents instead of killing insects

"It's not just about the bees, it's about the survival of humanity"




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CDC lists oil of lemon eucalyptus as comparable to DEET for mosquitoes

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.




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Mothers’ pesticide levels linked to autism in their children

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.




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Scientists call for ban on pesticides that harm children's brains

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.




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An organic diet rapidly reduces pesticide exposure

When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.




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Top 12 pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables

And the top 15 that are least toxic.




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EU, Brazil and China have banned way more harmful pesticides than the USA

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.




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Lions, leopards and lynxes love boxes too (video)

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.




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Thousands of African gray parrots rescued from traffickers in Congo (video)

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.