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All Together Now: Green Modern Cooperative Living in Australia

March 11, 2010

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Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew Lecky

So 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 of Lifehouse 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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Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator

March 11, 2010

10MW tower dubai imageImages: Studied Impact

It’s hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world’s tallest building. So it with a mixture of cynicism and excitement that we greet proposals such as this. Actually, it’s just a competition entry. But this is Dubai, and you never know….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging

March 11, 2010

Book: Designing for re-use

A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better than recycling, so when the consumer gives a packaging a second life before eventually recycling it wherever possible, he saves resources. The object he or she reused has gained the value of the item he or she would have had to buy otherwise. Packaging has become a visible problem to all of us, and although governments tent to push towards packaging reduction and recycling, re-using co…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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