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Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Antibacterial Paint?

Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Jan 30th, 2008

CNET reported on a paint under development by researchers at Rice University and City College of New York. The trick is an ancient remedy that my unlce used to swear by (and probably still does). It’s silver. Nanoparticles of silver, to be exact. The trick is to insert these tiny particles […]

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Green Build Brick by Brick

Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Jan 16th, 2008

Popsci.com gives out invention awards every year. I stumbled across their selections from May and found a great product made from a coal by-product, fly ash. Once part of the problem, retired civil engineer Henry Liu turns fly ash into an effective solution, and he’s planning on releasing it this year!
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A Green Checklist for the World

Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Jan 11th, 2008

Al Gore and Anderson Cooper have brought plenty of attention to the Green Topic. Their dismal reports, along with plenty of environmental pioneers like Paul Hawkin, Ray Anderson, etc, have spurred a media frenzy on the need to save our planet. Time magazine recently reported on “51 Ways to Save the […]

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Is New Urbanism the cure?

Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Jan 7th, 2008

I just read an interesting article about New Urbanism, a movement against sprawling cities and our dependence on the automobile. The philosophy claims that we can retrofit our cities into denser neighborhoods where all of our needs, or most of them, can be within walking distance. This includes work, school, shopping, […]

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