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  • Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living

    Lidija Grozdanic, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Cocoon Tree: A Light­weight, Spher­i­cal Tree­house for Sus­tain­able Liv­ing http://flpbd.it/dw1zk Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living Related articles Innovative Upcycling (creativefolkdesign.wordpress.com) Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses (inhabitat.com) Cocoon Tree Tent (werd.com)

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  • The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina

    The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com The Famery has suc­cess­ful­ly raised $25,000 on Kick­starter to make this project a real­i­ty, so if you live in Raleigh, you’re in for a spe­cial treat. So far they have devel­oped two pro­to­types along with a…

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  • Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs

    Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Ben­son­wood’s Unity Homes fea­tures four dis­tinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bed­rooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a clas­sic Tall Cape), Xyla (Amer­i­can Bun­ga­low), Värm (Swedish… http://flpbd.it/xGx3f Related articles Sunmodo…

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  • Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck

    Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck inhabitat.com We saw an array of amaz­ing home-made things at this year’s Maker Faire NYC, but one of the most impres­sive by far was the Whit­tled Down Car­a­van, a super tiny home on wheels. Built from scratch on top of a 4’ x…

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  • Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox

    Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Han Slawik based his Home­box on the ship­ping con­tain­er model for its trans­port capa­bil­i­ties, uni­ver­sal dimen­sions and use­ful­ness. But at the same time, wear, repair and main­te­nance of steel mate­ri­als is cost­ly, not to men­tion… http://flpbd.it/cSdov Related articles Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made…

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  • New Electric Touring Trike From Germany

    New Electric Touring Trike From Germany Very Speedy Nino Marchetti, earthtechling.com Elec­tric bicy­cles are quite com­mon these days. Elec­tric trikes though? Not quite as much. It is a cat­e­go­ry though see­ing some activ­i­ty, such as the recent­ly unveiled Scor­pi­on fs 26 S-Ped­elec which, quite frankly, looks to be an… http://flpbd.it/sqnfU Related articles Scuddy, the Electric Trike…

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  • Germany Sets New Solar Record

    Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country’s Weekend Power Demand | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your…

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  • Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home

    Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home Sami Grover Design / Green Architecture October 19, 2012, treehugger.com Next time you hear some­one com­plain­ing about today’s youth, or moan­ing about a cul­ture of enti­tle­ment, tell them the story of Austin Hay. We already post­ed one video of Austin Hay’s project to build a tiny house on…

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  • Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes

    Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes Create Flexible Spaces | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your electricity bill. But did you know that…

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  • If Everyone Lived Like An American

    Daily Infographic: If Everyone Lived Like An American, How Many Earths Would We Need? By Emily Elert, popsci.com Hint: It’s a good thing not everyone lives like an American. You’re prob­a­bly already aware that Amer­i­cans con­sume a dis­pro­por­tion­al amount of the world’s stuff. You may even have bumped into some of the sta­tis­tics: We make…

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  • Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village

    Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village? By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com Alpha One Labs co-founder Sean Auri­ti and a group of like-minded hack­ers have launched a cam­paign to build Hack­ert0wn, a Brook­lyn hack­er­space the likes of which the world has never seen. As planned, Hack­ert0wn will be an entire hack­er… http://flpbd.it/8muih Related articles Twitter Account of…

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  • 3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

    (via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…

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