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  • Trusted House Sitters: Crowd-sourced sitters

    If you are good with rabbits, this could be for you! Kind of like AirBnB but with dogs. Questions About House Sitting | Home Owners FAQs | trustedhousesit. Related articles Customer Spotlight: Sensible Sitters (grasshopper.com) The House Sitter (anakalianwhims.wordpress.com) Mom who left child in hot car speaks out (wcpo.com) House Sitter Tips (From an Actual…

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  • University of Illinois launches online Master of Engineering

    UIC – Master of Engineering. Related articles Two New Online Master of Engineering Degrees from Colorado State… (prweb.com) Mastering engineer (gearslutz.com) Cornell Tech Campus Opens Applications for First Class (theepochtimes.com) Cornell NYC Begins Accepting Applications for ‘Highly Selective’ Beta Class (betabeat.com) Roominate: Inspiring Artists, Engineers and Visionaries (engineering.curiouscatblog.net) Is a nearly free masters degree worth…

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  • Envi Heater and Edenpure: Beyond the small space heater hype

    Awhile ago during a particularly tough heating season with oil prices through the roof I began to look into alternatives. One easy to spot one was the miraculous claims made, usually in the back of magazines, from direct marketed space heaters such a the Eden Pure stating that they could replace our entire boiler at…

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  • Philips Off the Grid Sustainable Habitat 2020

    Interesting that Phillips is designing membrane based housing which will mimic biological membranes by allowing more efficient interaction and exchange with the environment. Philips Off the Grid Sustainable Habitat 2020 by Philips Design » Yanko Design. Related articles R00tbeer returns – Philips hacked, poor passwords revealed yet again (nakedsecurity.sophos.com) Philips brings solar LED street lights…

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  • Brimfield Antique Show: DIY, design, recycling and solidly made things

    For anyone interested in DIY, design, recycling or just plain solidly made things this show is a must… Brimfield Antique Show Homepage. Related articles DIY: Give Your Collared Shirt Bohemian Embellishments! (fabsugar.com) DIY: Learn to Make the Perfect Cutoff Shorts (fabsugar.com) DIY: How to Make Retro, Pastel-Tipped Sunglasses! (fabsugar.com) A Rainy Day at the Brimfield…

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  • Acorn Deck House Company

    There are a bunch of these for sale around Boston. Kind of a nice design… Acorn Deck House Company. Related articles Bring Your Home To A Higher Level: Add A Deck (leccoworkshop.com) Sustainable Materials – Insight from Our Top Experts (elocal.com) Building on Sustainability (elocal.com) Self-Sustaining HOUS.E+ is a Rammed Earth Home of the Future…

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  • Making housing more adaptable: one experiment in Hong Kong

    This creative experiment reveals how in our increasingly resource constrained world, 344 square feet can be made to feel much bigger through adaptable design On Location – One Room Configured 24 Ways – NYTimes.com. Related articles Hong Kong – Most expensive city to live in the world : 1 July 2012 (internationalcostofliving.com) Hong Kong –…

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  • Gadgetoff: a mini TED with things you can touch

      Gadgetoff – Home. Related articles The Profile of a Perfect Ted Talk (communicationstudies.com) Check out TED . . . . (macbobpayne.wordpress.com) Jonah Lehrer, TED, and the narrative dark arts (blogs.reuters.com) How and When to Show a TED Talk (teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com) The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date (ted.com) (Re)touching lives through photos (atmtxphoto.com)  

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  • Heating Help: Community for DIY energy conservation

      Heating Help – Heating Systems. Related articles DIY: How To Make Your Own Studded Ballerina Flats (fabsugar.com) Five DIY Home Energy Upgrades Under $100 (earthtechling.com) DIY Prototype Proves Cheap Solar Air Conditioning Is Possible (earthtechling.com) There Is Such Thing As DIY Molten Lava and It’s Awesome (gizmodo.co.uk)  

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  • NESEA – We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other.

    NESEA – We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other.. Related articles Unity College Shows Off Their New Solar Array this Weekend Middlesex sustainability workshop for London’s hospitality industry Thinking Sustainable Real Estate Sustainability One house every minute: are sustainability targets an impossible mission?

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  • Traffic: Behavior Based Reality

    Drawing upon a growing network of sensors embedded on our roadways several new books and articles show that once again few studies were done into actual human behavior before designing the conduits which we spend most of our waking hours in: our national roadways. Discoveries reveal that for example the $15 Big Dig project in Boston…

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  • Taunton River protected as wild, scenic

      Taunton River protected as wild, scenic – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   Taunton man dies when SUV launches off bridge into Taunton River (enterprisenews.com) Canoe trip will explore the Taunton River (tauntongazette.com) Driver dies after crashing into Taunton River (boston.com) Dolphins spotted in local river (wcvb.com) State Rail Network Progress (franklinmatters.org)  

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