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Hungary to Build $1 Billion Green-Powered Town From Scratch

Matias Prieto — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 11:42:08 +0000

Hungary is planning to create a green-powered town with jobs and housing for thousands on a barren strip of Danube flood plain. German property investment company FAKT invested $1.1 billion in the 1.27 square mile horticultural and infrastructure project that could create 5,000 permanent jobs. The carbon-neutral town will draw mainly on solar and […]

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Architects Dream Rebuilding Notre Dame as an Ecological Greenhouse

Matias Prieto — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:58:18 +0000

A group of French architects presented a green project for the cathedral restoration. They plan to add plants, trees and even an apiary on the main spire. Studio NAB proposed to rebuild Notre Dame’s roof as a big public greenhouse. Their proposal intends to seize the intended restructuring as an opportunity to create a place […]

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How to Build the Greenhouse of the Future

Matias Prieto — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:36:02 +0000

Living in a sustainable way is one of our generation’s biggest challenges. Nowadays, most people living in major cities have to spend a lot of money on food with high levels of pesticides on their daily diets. Moreover, most of the electric systems are still powered by non-renewable energy sources. To generate an alternative to […]

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Urban farming: growing vegetables on the rooftop of a car park

Effie P — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:45:47 +0000

Singapore is a small country in South-East Asia–practically a city state, where the urban centre dominates most of the island. Land is a scarce resource and agriculture is limited, contributing less than 1% of the country’s GDP. Understandably, the country has turned to technology to support its local production. A new 1800m2 rooftop farm has […]

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Japanese Pub Made from Recycled Materials in a Zero-Waste Town

Mila Luleva — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:10:25 +0000

This incredible pub in Japan is a symbol of sustainability. Built in the outskirts of a zero-waste town, the pub’s interior and exterior are made of reclaimed and recycled materials. If I have to pick the most sustainable and environment-oriented country I have visited, Japan will definitely be right up there in my top three. […]

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Greener cement for buildings and coastal structures

Effie P — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:57:39 +0000

Concrete is the most commonly used building material in the world, and can be found in almost any structure: from buildings to bridges to waterfronts. It is made from a mix of cement, coarse and fine aggregates like gravel and sand, and water. However, it has considerable environmental impacts through all its life-cycle. Its manufacture […]

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Novel coating to keep buildings cool without air-conditioning

Effie P — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:05:44 +0000

Air-conditioning can account for more than 40% of the domestic energy consumption, and contributes to greenhouse emissions by making use of chemical refrigerants such as chlorofluorocarbons and halogenated chlorofluorocarbons. Global temperatures, however, keep rising, and the situation becomes more unbearable in the presence of humidity. At 80% relative humidity, temperatures of 32C can be perceived […]

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Top 5 Green Gadgets and Initiatives at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019

Mila Luleva — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:15:19 +0000

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is yet again very special for all green technology supporters. The show managed to gather the best of the best in the business of development of green gadgets. Of course, it would not be CES if the organizers did not put together the CES Green guide. […]

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Tourism and Its Impact on the Environment

Nicholas Say — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:01:48 +0000

Most people look forward to a vacation, and who could blame them? But what many people forget is that the hospitality industry runs 24/7. With a resource base that isn’t getting any bigger, we need to become more aware of our vacation habits, and how we can harmonize them with the world we live in. […]

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Sustainable Building and Material Designs You Can Use in Your Backyard

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:46:28 +0000

While there is, understandably, always a lot of focus on sustainable building design and materials for homes, interior décor, and offices, people who are interested in leading a more eco-friendly lifestyle also long to find ways to keep their backyard additions greener. Read on for some of the coolest sustainable designs you can consider today. […]

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Tesla Solar Roof Goes on Sale

Mila Luleva — Thu, 18 May 2017 12:53:17 +0000

Wave good-bye to regular solar panels, as Tesla’s revolutionary Solar Roof goes on sale. The solar energy industry has been blooming over the last couple of years. Not only that technology improved drastically, but it also became much more affordable (and therefore desirable) to everyone. Home solar power, in particular, went trough an incredible transformation. […]

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Circular Runways Could Change Airports for the Better

Nicholas Say — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:07:53 +0000

Henk Hesselink is a man who has a very interesting idea about the future of airport design. In a recent study paid for by the European Commission, he developed a plan to create airports that revolve around a circular runway. While not a wholly original concept, this is the first time the idea of a […]

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India Unveils its Second Green Airport

Satya Sivani — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:07:34 +0000

Indian Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, has inaugurated India’s second green airport in Vadodara last Saturday. The first one was unveiled in Kochi last year. Mr Modi said, “Connectivity is becoming very important in this century,”. He added, “Happy that 2 airports in India have joined the green movement,”. “The first(one) was in Kochi and the […]

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Used Plastic Bottles Turn into Energy Efficient Housing

Mila Luleva — Wed, 11 May 2016 18:26:07 +0000

Used plastic bottles get a new life in Plastic Bottle Village. For many of us, eliminating plastic bottles from the daily activities presents a huge challenge. Even if we are 100% dedicated to not buy anything that comes in this eco-unfriendly packaging, circumstances sometimes leave us with no choice. On average, a person will go […]

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Cochin Airport, India – World’s First Fully Powered by Solar Panels

Mila Luleva — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:51:37 +0000

Cochin International Airport in Kerala, India, is the first ever airport to be completely powered by solar. There are many success stories when it comes to solar- people going off grid thanks to their rooftop solar power, giant companies funding and co-financing big solar arrays to account for their energy consumption. However, nothing is quite as […]

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New farmerless “farm” to break ground in Japan

Guest Contributor — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:59:35 +0000

Japan will break ground on a new farmerless farm this summer. This indoor, fully automated farm will produce up to 17,000 heads of lettuce per day. The lettuce is grown in hydroponically, automated systems essentially cutting labor in half . The 3500m green building being built by Spread, will utilize several energy saving technologies including a 30% electric reduction by […]

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Thailand Home Energy Storage Project Turns Solar Power to Hydrogen

Mila Luleva — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:33:41 +0000

Eco-friendly housing development in Thailand stores excess solar power, generated from rooftops, in the form of hydrogen. It is great to see that improvements in solar panel technologies, and drop in commercial prices, have made more and more home owners opt for generating clean solar power. But, energy consumption varies greatly throughout the day (and night) […]

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Villa K Uses Natural Temperature Gradient to Reduce Energy Footprint

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:49:28 +0000

The Villa K, designed by Paul de Ruiter Architects blends into its surroundings and uses very little energy. Sheathed in glass, steel and concrete, it’s built into a hillside found in Thüringen, a state in Germany. It comes complete with climate-optimization and a heat exchanger to regulate the temperature. There are solar panels located on […]

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Tesla’s Gigafactory, World’s Largest Net Zero Energy Building

Mila Luleva — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:46:25 +0000

The latest from Tesla’s battery ‘Gigafactory’: it will produce all the energy it consumes, and it will be renewable. There is an ever-so-growing anticipation and hype around Tesla’s Gigafactory. Not only that it will be arguably the largest building in the world, but also it is expected to exceed the world’s battery production all on […]

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The Honda Smart Concept House – EV, PV and Gas Generation

Michelle Lutz — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:47:43 +0000

Smart homes and green homes are the newest wave. Homes that can do and be all that we need for them to be. If only we could create a home that would allow us to have some of our creature comforts when Mother Nature decides to hand us a doozy. Well, Lixil Housing Research Institute […]

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Smart Mirai House in Japan – A Sample of Organic Electricity

Michelle Lutz — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 10:31:13 +0000

Home is where the heart is. This is said by people all over the world every day. This the place that families and friends gather to visit, to care, to rest and that we take great care of. The smart home of the future will be the place that cares of us. The Yonezawa office […]

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Dazzling Solar-Powered Ice Suites at The Iconic ICEHOTEL

Guest Contributor — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:26:15 +0000

The renowned ICEHOTEL, located in Sweden will be pioneering permanent solar-powered ice suites that will become available year-round. Annually, Sweden hosts the Lapland hotel and art exhibition, which is composed of ice and snow. As the weather turns warm, the exhibit melts away. However, a permanent solution has been created which will be completely powered by solar energy as […]

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Apis Cor 3D Printer Can Build House, Only Uses 8kW of Energy

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 05:46:45 +0000

3D printing is taking off in a big way, and will soon be the foundation of manufacturing, medicine and home repair. One industry that will be changed by this innovative new technology is construction. Soon houses will be built by 3D printers instead of laborers and the Apis Cor is the most advanced of its kind yet, demonstrating […]

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NexusHaus Carbon Neutral Houses to be Built in Austin, TX

Annika Tostengard — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:43:10 +0000

The city of Austin, TX welcomes 100 new citizens every single day. That has caused a significant increase in the resources needed to keep the city running, so the Austin Community Desing & Development Center’s Alley Flat Initiative has been hard at work to design a carbon neutral house to alleviate some of the energy […]

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Freedom Cove: An Off-the-Grid Floating Island Home

Annika Tostengard — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:55:22 +0000

A Canadian couple has constructed not just an off-the-grid home, but an entire floating, off-the-grid island in Tofino, British Columbia. Called “Freedom Cove”, the island even includes a greenhouse, a lighthouse and a dance studio. Wayne Adams and Catherine King began construction all the way back in 1992, and did most of the work themselves. They now […]

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DIY Energy-Saving Kitchen Design in 4 Steps

Annika Tostengard — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 06:50:42 +0000

Kitchen appliances are some of the most electricity-hungry devices in the home. Even seemingly small appliances like toaster ovens consume a surprising 0.75 kWh every hour. If a new kitchen renovation is in your future, or you’d like to start saving on your electricity bill every month, follow these five tip to make sure the kitchen […]

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Tiny Solar-Powered Modular Home Can Travel Anywhere

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:19:13 +0000

This home may be tiny, but it can go anywhere – it’s basically a luxury tent. The POD-Idladla, as it is called, is entirely solar-powered and can be customized to meet personal preferences. The homes are also designed to stand alone or can be connected to other modular pods. While the POD-Idladla is built to house two […]

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Smog-Capturing Tower to be Built in Rotterdam

Mila Luleva — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:13:14 +0000

Carbon-harvesting, smog-capturing tower is soon to emerge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. All carbon that is collected will then be turned into jewelry. Not too long ago, when Beijing smog was making the news nearly every day, there was a Dutch designer, Daan Roosegaarde, and his team at Studio Roosegaarde, who invented a technology that harvests […]

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Cheap Zero-Carbon House Built by British Designers

Mila Luleva — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:53:38 +0000

British designers constructed a brand new zero carbon house, which produces more energy that it consumes, and costs just as much to build as regular houses. The house, which was constructed near the English town of Bridgened, came as a result of the efforts of designers from Cardiff University. They were challenged by the statement […]

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WaterNest Floating Renewable House Now for Sale

Annika Tostengard — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:19:13 +0000

A new abode is available for people who want to be environmentally friendly, but still want to live luxuriously. The WaterNest 100 is a floating house that is built out of recycled and renewable materials, primarily recycled wood and aluminum, and is 98% recyclable itself. It also runs entirely off of 60 sqm of photovoltaic […]

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Facebook’s New Data Center Powered by 200 MW Texas Wind Farm

Satya Sivani — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:32:24 +0000

Facebook announced that its fifth privately owned and second 100 percent renewable energy powered data center is being built at Fort Worth, Texas, with $1 billion. To suffice for the data center’s energy requirements, Facebook is co-developing a 200 MW wind farm in collaboration with the local energy companies – Citigroup Energy, Alterra Power Corporation, and […]

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Ecocapsule – Freedom to Live Off-Grid Anywhere

Satya Sivani — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 06:17:25 +0000

Ecocapsule, a tiny, off-grid, fully portable, solar and wind powered house, looks like some dinosaur’s giant egg – only differences – due to some limiting factors, even dinosaurs didn’t lay such big eggs and instead of some baby bird, it is for people to live in. Ecocapsule has been designed by Nice Architects, a young […]

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Building Made of Bio-concrete Heals Its Own Cracks

Mila Luleva — Mon, 18 May 2015 19:38:01 +0000

Self-healing cement, made entirely of bacteria, is now out of the lab and in the walls of the first building that can repair cracks on its own. It is a well known fact that the cement industry is one of the most polluting ones, right up there with coal burning power plants. This is why […]

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Solar Power Blinds Make for Efficient Buildings

Benji Jerew — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:16:37 +0000

Solar power is all around us, if you look at things like trees, greenhouses, and cats, but can also be a problem for some of us. For example, looking at those beautiful glass-façade office buildings, one can’t help but relate how solar power must turn those things into skyscraper-sized greenhouses. While a little sunlight is […]

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Eco-Friendly Restaurant Has Air-purifying Walls Made of Salt

Mila Luleva — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:48:56 +0000

Iranian restaurant, built from salt, sets a new trend in eco-friendly building and design. The salt is derived from local salt mines and a salt lake and has double function- ‘green’ building material and air-purifier. The idea for the clever design belongs to the team at Emtiaz Designing Group, who decided to implement it for a first […]

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Universe Conspires to Keep Us Cool with Photonics

Ari Luis — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:07:57 +0000

Every cloud has a silver lining, or so they say. So these researchers from Stanford University took a cue from that and tried to make a paint to help keep buildings cool with photonics radiative cooling. Say what? It’s basically a mirror that reflects heat from the sun away from buildings. But it doesn’t stop […]

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A Skyscraper on Its Side that Could Be Greener?

Ari Luis — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:24:45 +0000

The past few years has seen a game of musical chairs as to who claimed the title as the world’s tallest building. Unfortunately, like the Tower of Babel, their time may soon be over. As one builds a taller building, the wind shear, not to mention earthquake susceptibility, increases exponentially. As a result, more concrete […]

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Pest-free Lettuce Grows in Toshiba’s Old Factory

Mila Luleva — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:11:37 +0000

Toshiba, the Japanese tech giant, has a great solution to the pressing climate-change driven problem of food security. They converted an old factory into the most advanced farm in the world to grow lettuce. The Yokosuka factory was once a leading facility that used to produce millions of floppy disks. As the technology advanced, however, […]

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Artist Cooks up a Storm in Resto Made of Recycled Materials

Ari Luis — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 13:55:12 +0000

Artist and Chef Claude Tayag’s home cum restaurant, Bale Dutung, feels like a museum. The house is patterned after the traditional Philippines rice barn or “kamalig”. The dining area is set in the first floor and is pretty much open as there is only a single wall that separates it from the kitchen. It was […]

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FRP Rebar Helps Save Mountains from Turning into Molehills

Ari Luis — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:01:20 +0000

Reinforcing bars or rebars are necessary to keep our structures up. Engineers usually use steel rebars because of cost, but some have explored the use of fiber rebars. If you’ve seen some exposed rebars at seaside structures, you will understand why. Steel rebars rust, hence compromising the home, or even wharf that they are trying […]

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Solar in Your Grocery Cart? PV Panels Sold in IKEA

Ari Luis — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:09:30 +0000

IKEA, the DIY-furniture giant, is offering you a way to make your own solar array by selling solar systems through its stores. The English can already buy panels at IKEA Bristol, according to their website. Soon, they will be available in the Netherlands starting in stores in the Haarlem region, to be followed by its […]

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Don’t be Scared to Solar Power Your Car

Ari Luis — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:21:54 +0000

You may not be Frankenstein nor Dracula, but things new like electric vehicles and solar power can be a bit scary, especially since they are usually pricey. But while electric or plug-in hybrid cars aren’t cheap, and neither are solar panels, more and more solar roof owners are turning to the sun to propel their […]

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Keeping Up with the Joneses A Factor in Solar Installation

Ari Luis — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:20:45 +0000

You might think that solar roof owners tended to be upper middle class liberals, but a study shows that that might not be the case. According to a study published by two researchers at Yale and the University of Connecticut, the most important factor influencing a household’s decision to go solar is if other houses […]

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Hot Outside? These Walls Sweat to Keep Things Cool

Ari Luis — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:03:47 +0000

The world will be using a lot more air conditioning, 30 times more in fact no thanks to climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). What’s worse is that all that A/C is generating even more heat. Already 200 billion kilowatt hours of power is used for cooling in the US […]

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Surfer’s Home to Use Waves for Power

Ari Luis — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:36:38 +0000

Surfers in South Africa asked architect Margot Krasojevics to design them a home by the sea. She designed them a house that rides the waves like its owners. Construction on the concrete home that will be anchored into the rocky coastline will start next year. Inside the bunker will be an inner shell made […]

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Bio-Material Made of Hemp Absorbs Pollutants and Improves Insulation

Mila Luleva — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:12:08 +0000

It has become very clear by now that the construction industry is among the most polluting sectors of the economy, yet society cannot do without it. It is also just as clear that trees are the most effective measure against CO2 pollution. Now, British researchers have decided to take the best of both worlds and […]

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Solar Panels to Generate Clean Energy from Rooftops of Public Schools in NYC

Mila Luleva — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:05:53 +0000

Major cities around the world keep impressing us with incredible initiatives and long term commitments to sustainability and renewable energy. The latest comes from New York City, where the Mayor’s office has committed to installing rooftop solar panels on 24 public schools, no later than 2016. New York City is only one of the many metropolitans […]

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Singapore Boldly Pushing Green Building Initiatives

Ari Luis — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:18:25 +0000

Singapore has long been known as the Lion City, but now wants to be known more for its other monicker, the Garden City. The irony is that the city-state, known for its strong government, built its green building success with the help of an NGO, the Singapore Green Building Council. Five years ago, Singapore’s building […]

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Water Tanks Spring New Lives as a House and a Cafe

Ari Luis — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:49:19 +0000

Now we have seen recycled materials used to erect a building, and we have seen buildings that were repurposed. I guess we associate springs with new life, but have you seen a water tank become a living space? Well that’s exactly what a businessman in Steenokkerzeel in Belgium and officials of the University of the […]

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Better Than a Glass House, This Plastic Bottle Classroom Rocks

Ari Luis — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:48:28 +0000

They say that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. But if you stay inside a plastic bottle classroom during a tropical storm, it shouldn’t be a problem. More than three years after it was built and dozens of tropical storms after (including Typhoon Haiyan), the first classroom in Asia made of plastic […]

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Surviving a World Without Fossil Fuels – Where Will We Live? Net Zero Homes, Of Course!

Benji Jerew — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:28:59 +0000

Currently, most of the world is in the grip of a totally unsustainable lifestyle, powered by fossil fuels. Speaking of petroleum deposits alone, giant oil company Beyond Petroleum says we may have a little over fifty years of oil left in the ground. Of course, we could turn to some other reliable fuel source, such […]

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Travel House Made of Water Tanks Can Be Pulled with a Bike

Mila Luleva — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:18:12 +0000

Are you a fan of caravans, but you feel limited by the need to always sit behind the car wheel when you want to take your shelter to the perfect location? Well, this is no longer a problem. Meet Taku Tanku, the super light caravan made of water tanks, which can be transported by a bike, […]

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Floating Solar Powered Pop-Up Restaurants To Transform Singapore’s Waterfront

Mila Luleva — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:40:08 +0000

A team of creative architects has taken the idea of pop-up restaurants to another, much higher and much greener level. They designed the ultimate centres, entirely powered by solar, that can float on the water surface and take you by surprise, while you’re enjoying the wonderful sunset on the coast. The Solar Orchid project is […]

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Innovative Skyscraper Shading Technology Controls Office Temperature And Light

Mila Luleva — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:29:36 +0000

Everyone sitting behind a desk in a huge office building will know what I am talking about. You are tired, maybe slightly sleepy after lunch, finding it hard to concentrate, and to top it up, the sun is shining right at you, bringing up the office temperature to what feels like a million degrees. But, not […]

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Boost Your Home Energy Efficiency – Now’s the Time

Benji Jerew — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:26:17 +0000

Home energy efficiency is a good thing to take a look at, no matter what season it is. In the summer, cooling can be quite expensive, especially if you have a leaky home in a hot and humid climate. Just to feel comfortable may require running air conditioners 24/7 some weeks. In the winter, the […]

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NEST and Samsung Make One Control System for All Smart Gadgets

Mila Luleva — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:53:22 +0000

Anybody, who is completely hooked on NEST and all the other smart technologies that control everything at home, would be able to tell you that there is only one limitation to the whole experience. You need a separate control for each individual component, which can become rather confusing if you have a couple of these […]

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Scientists Prove Net-Zero Homes Are Not Only a Futuristic Dream

Mila Luleva — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:16:30 +0000

If anybody tells you that having a net-zero energy home is impossible, do not trust them. They either live in denial or are simply very wrong. One year long test-trial, conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ended with energy to spare, even after a very harsh winter season. Exactly a year […]

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McDonald’s Conquers The Green World by Greening Up Their Buildings

Mila Luleva — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:03:52 +0000

Just when everyone thought that McDonald’s can never be green, the giant in hamburger making yet again proved us all wrong. Not only that the logos and roofs of most restaurants (in Europe at least) have turned from red to green, but also there is an increasing number of facilities that are collecting LEED points with […]

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Giant Mobile Green Machine Turns Deserts Into Agricultural Fields

Mila Luleva — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:41:18 +0000

For decades, scientists have been trying to at least prevent desertification from escalating further, if not to reverse it. Unfortunately, all their efforts have been ineffective, and have only resulted in a handful of scientific articles that outline the potential of various preventive techniques that might not work if temperatures continue to rise. But while […]

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UK Students from Brighton Turn Waste Into an Amazingly Livable House

Mila Luleva — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:58:21 +0000

Recycling is the only solution to the excessive amounts of garbage we produce on daily basis. Most landfill sites are overloaded with materials that once could have been put into a very good use, yet their “owner” was careless to do so and found it much more convenient to simply dump them and hope that […]

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Germans Love Their Green Vacations

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:22:50 +0000

Germans tend to have an incredibly green culture, and this includes their vacations. A guidebook that details 200 green projects around the country sold out its very first printing. The Holtriem wind farm in Lower Saxony is a very popular destination . When it was built, it was the largest in Europe and has a […]

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Two Residential Towers Will Clean Mumbai’s Air, Just Like Trees

Mila Luleva — Thu, 15 May 2014 14:34:10 +0000

With urban air pollution becoming a huge problem in many major cities around the world, engineers, scientists and architects are testing and trying numerous unconventional ideas and solutions. One such project comes from a Denmark-based company, 3XN, where lead architects have designed buildings that act as trees. The so-called Grove Towers will erect in Mumbai, […]

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Indoor Vertical Garden, a Testament to Sustainable Design

Benji Jerew — Thu, 08 May 2014 18:59:20 +0000

Design firm “Green Over Grey” focuses on sustainable designs for the 21st Century and beyond, some facets of which are more or less visible than others. Green Over Grey is currently refurbishing the Desjardins Building in Lévis, Québec, Canada, which is expected to be LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certified when it opens […]

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Chinese Company Uses 3D Printer to Construct 10 Houses in 24 Hours

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:20:28 +0000

The small houses that the Chinese company Winsun New Materials is building may look plain, but they represent a huge breakthrough in rapid construction. Amazingly, or scarily, enough the company used a giant 22 foot tall 33 foot wide 3D printer to create 10 small houses in 24 hours. Each home is made from recycled […]

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Apple Campus 100% Renewable Corporate Headquarters

Benji Jerew — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:56:22 +0000

The new Apple headquarters may look odd, but it’s also a very smart building, capable of being fully-powered by renewable energy, not to mention its focus on the environment. Steve Jobs visionary new headquarters for Apple looks very much like something from a sci-fi movie, and perhaps because of this, it’s a design that we […]

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Honda Smart Home is a Vision of a Zero Carbon Future

Benji Jerew — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:56:22 +0000

Honda doesn’t just built zero-carbon cars, such as the Honda Fit EV, but has actually developed a whole-life approach to eliminating carbon dioxide emissions. The Honda Fit EV, of course, consumes electricity, which would normally come from the power grid. Where that power comes from, and how much carbon dioxide it generates, is out of […]

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Park Passive House is First in Washington State

Benji Jerew — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:49:32 +0000

What is a “passive house?” The idea has been around for about twenty years, building the world’s most-efficient homes. Perhaps better if I let someone else explain what a passive house is and where it all started, in 1991… The idea of the passive house is to significantly reduce energy expenditures in the home. Typical […]

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Green Home Fail – 100% of Insulation Installations Defective in New Zealand

Benji Jerew — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:23:11 +0000

Green homes, especially where the climate is outside of human comfort zones, depend on proper insulation. Fiberglass insulation is a key component to the green home. This barrier, in the winter, keeps the heat creeping through the walls to a slow crawl. In the summer, the insulation does the same thing, only keeping the heat […]

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Biostone: Greener Cement Made from Sand, Bacteria and Urine

Mila Luleva — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:10:21 +0000

It is a commonly known fact that production of cement is a process, which can cause severe damage to the environment, mainly due to the large amount of carbon dioxide that is released in the atmosphere by the factories. Not long ago, we told you about ‘slag‘, the green cement, which is produced without any […]

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Negative Emissions House Built by Studio Apxé

Benji Jerew — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:52:33 +0000

Reducing or eliminating emissions doesn’t have to be painful, expensive, or even ugly. Of course, beauty or ugliness remains in the eye of the beholder, but this negative emissions house, built by Studio Apxé in Kladnica, Bulgaria, is a sight to behold. The project began with the idea to develop a sustainable one-story house on […]

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$70 Thermostat proves the power of open-source technology

Danny Harper — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:04:58 +0000

Although every big corporation and patent troll would tell you otherwise, the open source model is one of the surest paths to technological innovation and progress. By offering universal access to a product’s design, and then allowing improvements on said design to be redistributed to anyone who wants to continue polishing, open source democratizes the building process, […]

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Cellulose Nanocrystals, a Potentially Green Alternative to Steel and Carbon Nanotubes

Mila Luleva — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:17:22 +0000

Every time cellulose was mentioned in one of your news pieces, it has always been about biofuels. Green algae digesting it and improving biogas production, various processes converting it into fuel, you name it. But this time, scientists from Purdue University in Indiana, have found a different property of the product, one that can potentially […]

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How a Well Insulated House Saves Hundreds of Dollars a Year

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:19:14 +0000

Heating and cooling costs account for between 50% and 70% of all energy costs in the average home, so maximizing the value of the energy you use is incredibly important. That means properly insulating your home. Adding insulation to a home can lower heating bills, but there are other benefits as well. When a home […]

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The Features That Make The New Apple Headquarters Green

Mila Luleva — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:21:35 +0000

Is the new Apple headquarters going to be ultra green or not? This question has been circling around the ‘green’ community for quite some time now with many undermining the efforts of the technological giant to create a sustainable working environment. It is true that the huge parking lot can fit more than 10,000 vehicles […]

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Sustainable Building Products Impress Jury at the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge

Mila Luleva — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:39:26 +0000

In a search for the best green building products made from recycled or sustainable materials, The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, together with Make It Right, challenged green designers and manufacturers from around the world, to enter the battle and find the most innovative green product that can transform traditional housing into a better, more […]

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Dallas Implements Mandatory Green Building Standards, Paves Way for Rest of US

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 03:05:15 +0000

Dallas, Texas… Who would have thought Dallas would be on its way to becoming one of the greenest cities in the United States? Surprisingly, green buildings aren’t new to Dallas. The city is home to over 140 LEED-certified buildings, including 23 LEED-certified municipal government facilities. Dallas also has 59 million square feet of Energy Star-certified […]

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Passivhaus Concept Changing How Homes are Built

Mila Luleva — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:02:37 +0000

Passivhaus, the one and only internationally recognized concept solely for its energy saving performance, has taken over the property market, as energy bills continue to increase. The buildings are self-sufficient, super isolated and air-tight, and are equipped with windows that harvest the energy from the sun. The first time people started talking about Passivhaus was […]

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Neurio Appliance Turns Every Home into a Smart Home

Benji Jerew — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:43:36 +0000

We’ve all been told, “Don’t forget to turn out the lights when you leave the room.” A Smart Home is smart enough to do that, and more, on its own. Of course, turning off the lights when you walk out the door saves you energy, which is why smart homes could be the next big […]

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Fuel Cell Technology Supplies Power To Al Gore’s New GIM Headquarters

Mila Luleva — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:53:04 +0000

Moving from NASA’s space shuttle to crown estate developments in central London, fuel cell technology will soon provide efficient and emission-free energy to one of the largest commercial buildings in the British capital city. The future home of Al Gore‘s sustainable investment company Generation Investment Management, will be fully powered by a fuel cell system, which […]

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DoE’s Solar Decathlon Competition Gathers Green Housing Designers From Across The Globe

Mila Luleva — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:01:58 +0000

In the coming two weeks, the Department of Energy is hosting the Solar Decathlon competition in Orange County Great Park, California. Teams from all over the world, gather to show their creative solar-powered housing designs, which should be affordable, attractive, comfortable, and produce enough or more energy to power all household appliances, heating and hot […]

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Dynamic Demonstration Platform Enables Green Building Architects to Test Their Designs

Mila Luleva — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:07:49 +0000

Swiss researchers have developed a dynamic demonstration platform, called NEST, which can assist green building designers with providing a real-world conditions for testing their latest innovations in the field of renewable energy systems and building modules. The construction of the NEST is starting very soon, and it is expected to be fully completed by 2015. […]

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Window Glass is Getting Smarter, Cheaper

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 02:05:24 +0000

It might actually be possible to convince corporations to put smart windows in buildings after scientists at Heliotrope Technologies, in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed an inexpensive, energy-efficient glass composite. The new glass composite has the unprecedented capacity to selectively block the sun’s heat-producing infrared radiation and visible light. Buildings equipped with […]

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Residential Homes More Energy Efficient, Thanks to Energy Research Group

Leigh Hutchens — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 02:30:20 +0000

The quality of homes and other existing buildings in Europe may be improved thanks to the ENEDI (Energy in Building) Group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, an autonomous community of northern Spain. ENEDI is working with the criteria set in place by European directives on thermal insulation, energy efficiency of buildings, general energy […]

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Belkin Echo Electricity Allows for Itemized Utility Bills, Saves Power

Benji Jerew — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:56:30 +0000

Home energy efficiency can be a difficult thing to tackle, when there are so many ways that a home can be INefficient. One way to improve could be to get a better understanding of where our energy goes. We already know that installing insulated windows or improving the insulation in our homes can improve our […]

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Eco-Friendly Hobbit Home Must be Destroyed According to City Planning Council

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:18:10 +0000

Charlie Hague and his partner Megan have been given two months to raze their “hobbit” house. The Pembrokeshire County Council has deemed the home the Hague’s built on their own property harmful to the rural countryside. The Hagues were inspired to build their hobbit house after Megan became pregnant and they wanted to trade the […]

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Nature Inspires Engineers to Develop Energy-Efficient Windows

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 02:49:57 +0000

Nature may provide clues about how to reduce energy leaks from windows, according to engineering experts at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. University engineering professor Ben Hatton and his colleagues describe a new process to reduce heat loss during the winter and to keep buildings cool in the summer time in their article […]

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How Smart Climate Control Saves Energy and Money

Benji Jerew — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:33:33 +0000

Current climate control technology in a building is not as advanced as it could be, and is wasting thousands of dollars a year because of it. If you think about climate control in a modern automobile, you can set your desired temperature, and the system takes care of the rest. Based on solar load, air […]

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Office Buildings Lower Energy Bills with Advanced Controls

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:36:36 +0000

According to a report from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers believe they’ve developed an advanced building control that might reduce the annual energy bill of large off buildings by up to 18%. The device the researchers created senses the number of people in various zones in the building and adjusts air […]

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Concrete Industry Takes Cues from Ancient Roman Builders to Cut Carbon Emissions

Leigh Hutchens — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:07:03 +0000

An international team of researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered the chemical mysteries of a concrete Roman breakwater submerged for over 2000 years in the Mediterranean Sea. The researchers discovered that the ancient Roman concrete that is superior to the majority of modern concrete because they mixed lime […]

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Pinkhouses Make Suburban Farming a Reality

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:57:20 +0000

The concept of vertical farming is extremely popular. Architects and engineers have started designing tall buildings intended to function as urban food centers in the attempt to implement vertical farming. Many horticulturists, however, find the concept ludicrous and believe the future of farming is in the suburbs, not skyscrapers. Horticulturalists envision huge warehouses in the […]

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Light Control Sheets “Self-Adjust” Solar Load, Can Make Home More Efficient

Benji Jerew — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:34:17 +0000

One way to reduce the amount of energy in a building is to regulate solar load. The sun adds heat, which helps warm a home in winter, but isn’t so great in summer. In the winter, you could open the southern window shades to allow the sun to heat up the home and reduce the […]

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Iran’s Apartment No. 1 Built Entirely from Recycled Stone

Mike Sandru — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:56:02 +0000

Iranian city Mahallat is home to a thriving stone cutting industry. Even though the industry contributes nearly half of the city’s economy, it also generates a lot of waste stone from the cutting process. Tehran’s Architecture by Collective Terrain thus set out to put the so-called waste stone to use by constructing an apartment building […]

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Hamburg’s BIQ House is First Algae-Powered Building in the World

Mike Sandru — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:53:31 +0000

Hamburg is now home to the first algae-powered building in the world. The BIQ House, as it is called, has a façade made of algae which react to differing environmental conditions to serve as a case study for renewable energy generation in urban areas while also providing “living” buildings that generate the power needed by […]

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200,000 Electric Vehicles with Vehicle-to-Building Technology by 2020

Benji Jerew — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:22:50 +0000

Building efficiency and energy consumption could be offset by smart building technology and backup power from electric vehicles. For the most part, when we think of an electric vehicle, we only notice that it takes energy from the power grid and allows us to travel from place to place. On the other hand, when properly […]

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Microalgae on Building Facade Produces Energy and Insulates From Noise

Mila Luleva — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:59:45 +0000

A new building facade technology by the firm Strategic Science Consult (SSC), promises to generate electricity and produce heat from algae. The green building is located in Hamburg, Germany, and it is one of the 16 buildings included in “The International Building Exhibition” – 2013, a multi-disciplinary, multi-million euro project funded by the government of Hamburg. The two […]

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Green Walls Reduce Urban Pollution, Boost Energy Efficiency

Mila Luleva — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:03:03 +0000

Green walls have been acknowledged as one of the most effective ways to cut down city air pollution, improve building’s energy efficiency, reduce noise and at the same time give a warm green feel to the usually colorless city architecture. Imagine walking on the streets of a major city like Paris, battling your way through […]

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Are The Valley’s Green Corporate Office Buildings Overhyped?

Benji Jerew — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:43:32 +0000

In a recent opinion piece by Lloyd Alter over at Treehugger, he points out some disturbing data regarding the employees themselves. Sure, the green buildings are fantastic, but parking spaces for better than 10,000 vehicles mean there is a lot more carbon being generated by these companies than we give them credit for. In fact, […]

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NREL’s New Energy Efficient Data Center Going Live

Benji Jerew — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:14:19 +0000

With the growth of the internet and the inherent need for data storage, NREL’s new energy efficient data center makes perfect sense. Of course, who would you expect to install such a center except the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [NREL]? The role of the NREL isn’t only to develop renewable energy, but also more efficient […]

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The City of Shenzhen Tackles Environmental Problems By Building Self-Sustained Farmscrapers

Mila Luleva — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:10:21 +0000

The city of Shenzhen, China, has found a solution to tackle raising CO2 emissions, increasing population and urban sprawl. The city officials announced that the French firm- Vincent Callebaut Architects is commissioned to conduct the so-called Shenzhen Asian Cairn Farmscraper project, which is expected to provide a sustainable solution to the pressing environmental problems of […]

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Eco-Friendly Tiny House Designed by Ambitious 12-Year-Old

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:46:22 +0000

For her school project, Sicily Kolbeck, a 12-year-old student at HoneyFern School in Marietta, Georgia built a small eco-friendly house based on the tiny house movement that is sweeping the United States. Sicily discovered Deek Diedrickson’s Tiny Yellow House, Relaxhacks YouTube channel, and Kirsten Dirksen’s We, the Tiny House People documentary, and was inspired to […]

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