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Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilisation with modern comforts.

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This year’s Solar Decathlon Winner: The WaterShed is an innovative prefabricated house designed on the concept that sustainable living means living as a part of an ecosystem and the natural processes that are a part of it. As a result, the design proposes a building that integrates itself with the landscape, creating one holistic system and is inspired by the naturally diverse Cheasepeak Bay.

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Can we bring upon a future of free and renewable energy? This brief presentation makes us think that not only it is possible, but the change is already happening.

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In an age of environmental desperation and ‘green-washed’ architecture solutions, buildings are suffering the wrath of green ignorance and consumerism. High-tech green solutions and government subsidies for alternative technologies are shifting the construction industries towards a future of inefficiency and wastefulness – an approach which could end up doing more harm to environment than good. Can Minimalist Green Architecture be the antidote?

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Earlier this year, mega-architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill revealed their master plan for the Green Tech City in Hanoi Vietnam, a truly sustainable urban development vision fitting for future Vietnamese generations. As if this wasn’t enough, they have also been awarded two further comissions to take their sustinable urban devlopment vision to the next level.

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Bangladesh has a serious power problem. Nearly half of its 162-million population does not have access to electricity, but a new non-profit organization is making a difference. Their new solar panel program trains village women to install and repair solar panels and electrical outlets on homes and businesses.

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Apple pulls in close to 50% of total global cellphone profits by selling only 4% of all cellphones, with that kind of profit and over 100 million iPhones sold Apple is a legitimate gorilla. So just how green is the gorilla’s smartphone?

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Here is the latest attempt at an “eco-friendly” individual transport. This baby, like its big cousin the Segway, uses gyroscope technology to balance the body. This modern day unicycle carries a 1000-Watt motor and a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery and will set you back about $5000. Is it worth it?

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Cool video from the fine folks at Discovery Networks showcasing a diesel-guzzling truck that is converted to run purely on fryer oil. Take a trip with James Williams on the journey to veggie fuel automotion.

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We have recently highlighted the localized idea of urban farming and simple hydroponic farming in your own home, but what if you could take it to a whole different level? What if we could feed an entire city through beautiful green towers dispersed around town? We do this with Water towers, why should it be different for food?

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There are many ‘green’ construction principles being passed around these days as magic solutions for the impending climate chaos, but very few are actual solutions, more seem like commercially labeled alternatives to the same old products and techniques. Clay Field’s in Suffolk, a recent low-cost housing scheme is a perfect example of what sustainable architecture should be like today.

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It seems we are all destined to leave our houses with radiation suits at some point in our near future unless we change the way we deal with our waste matter or we reduce the amount of waste we produce. Why not turn all that waste into something useful, like fuel for our homes?

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