• The State of Happiness
• Transportation On Parade
• Is Walkscore A Useful Planning Tool?
• DOT, HUD and EPA All Trumpet Smart Growth
• Tiki Preservation
• The Mormon Church Backs Mixed-Use Project
• Decay in Suburbia
• How Bill's Hotel Room Saved Some Trees
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• Batucada: Über Cool Home Accessories from Recycled Aluminum
• US Consumer Watchdog Says Shoo to Bamboo Textiles
• Ponoko Ships Ideas Instead of Objects Across the Atlantic
• Who Got It Right With Olympic Architecture, Beijing or Vancouver?
• 5 Shed Interiors at IDS2010 Range From Practical to Over-the-Top Glam
• Space-Age Aerogel Insulation: It Is Already Here
• Live Like Rent Free, Energy And Water Efficient, Jetsons
• Make It Right: The Saints Come Marching In
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• Castle Envy
• Gift Fair Finds
• The Design Revolution Hits the Road
• Smarter Energy for New York
• Civic Virtue
• Amale Andraos and Dan Wood on the Edible Schoolyard
• The Active City
• Pecha Kucha for Haiti
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• ReRev Makes Energy Generating Gyms a Reality
• Children’s Hospital is a Sheltering Haven that Proves Design Heals
• The Gyre: A Floating Upside Down Eco Skyscraper
• NewActon Apartments Aim to Be the Greenest in Australia
• Build Your Own Treehouse in 6 Easy Steps
• Top 5 Greener Gadgets to Look for in 2010
• Collapsible Cargoshell Shipping Container Cuts Emissions
• Car Bodies Could Store Energy Like Batteries
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• New Philips phone for the elderly
• Designing financial services for the poor
• Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010
• Live at Interaction’10: day 2
• Live at Interaction’10: day 1
• 5 ways techno-gadgetry is bringing out the worst in humanity
• Digital Nation, in-depth documentary, online in full
• The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices
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• Sustainability and the Millennial Generation
• The KISS Principle and Sustainability
• Progress, Not Perfection
• Sustainability Takes Hold
• Natural Resource Mismanagement Connected to Loss of Life in Haiti
• Flawed Building Likely a Big Element
• can you see the sea?
• Reset Button: Views from a Cautious Optimist
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• New Yorkers Recycle Half Million Pounds of Textiles at Greenmarkets
• Brooklyn Green Team Raises 1K at Party
• Cold Weather Getting You Down? Head to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• City Tech Professor's Solution to Climate Change: Resources From Space
• Brooklyn Green Team to Host Second Anniversary Party
• Brooklyn Public Library Announces Power Up! Winners
• New Yorkers Recycle — A Message From CENYC
• Electronics Recycling at Prospect Park in Brooklyn
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• Accordian Photo-bioreactor: Very Cool! (But where do I plug in my toaster?)
• Biosphere 2: An Arizona Relic Roars to Life
• "Food Rules"
• Google Goes Green
• A way to live....
• Shhhh... Don't tell Shai Agassi: Electric cars are so two-minutes ago...
• Shai Agassi & Better Place: Making Electric Cars Practical
• From Stewart Brand's "We are as Gods, so we may as well get good at it," to...
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• BIG + Fuglark, Education Centre - Faroe Islands
• Cherokee Lofts, LEED Gold multifamily building, California
• Prada Pop-up Boutique, Paris
• NL Architects - SOZAWE Sustainable Office Building
• SOM, Virginia Beach Convention Centre
• Zaha Hadid, MAXXI Opening, Rome
• Gazprom Tower Tallest Sustainable Building in Europe
• Herzog and Meuron design the new Miami Art Museum
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• Jam-Packed Session at West Coast Green 09: Alex Wilson’s Talk on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: a Look at Green & Not-So-Green Building Products
• West Coast Green 09: Innovations, Ideas, and Opportunities Shared
• 2nd Annual US-China Green Energy Conference a Catalyst for Change and Innovation
• Can Robotic Manufacturing Help Us Build in a Greener Way?
• Ingenious Two-in-One Radiant Panel Structural Subfloor
• West Coast Green: Innovations, Ideas, and Opportunities
• GreenLinks: Tidbits from the Web
• Team California’s Refract House Starts 2,848 Mile Trek to the 2009 Solar Decathlon
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• Dowell Myers on Proposition 13, Demographics and Housing: The New Reality After the Crash
• Urban Design After Oil
• Ferguson on Quantitative Research Methods in Planning: A Comparative Assessment of ‘Teaching’ versus ‘Practice’
• Blog Memoir: My Youth as an Urban Economist
• Xavier de Souza Briggs on Failed Urban Policy and Proposals to ‘Tear Down HUD’
• People or Place: Revisiting the Who versus the Where of Urban Development*
• Cities: The Missing Presidential Campaign Issue*
• Migrating to El Norte
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• These days computers are mostly devices in drag. The gadgets that surround us wear the distinctive gear and play the varied roles of telephones, MP3 players, digital cameras, watches, and date books. Under the surface, microchips and software are what make these otherwise inert lumps of metal and plastic useful. …full story

• Today, French president Nicolas Sarkozy will receive the ten architects selected to create Le Grand Paris. Richard Rogers is one of them. Earlier this week, they each gave a 30-minute presentation of their visions (see it here). The task is herculean, the mission quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely irresistible for any ambitious architect. …full story