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Bail-out or Build-out?

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As Washington and Wall Street dicker over a financial rescue plan, everyone is missing the real opportunity to fix the problem. Some see the variously proposed plans as bailouts of dumb borrowers and dumber lenders, while others view it as a chance to...

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Building the Green Community Around the Green Building

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So, you're approaching green as part of your mission, you're using the integrated design process, and you've tweaked the financing structure to cover the added costs. Voila! A solid green project, right? No quite. There's one more, often ignored, element...

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Potato Diversity and Traditional Knowledge

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As mentioned in last week's blog post, in Peru's Parque de la Papa-the Potato Park-, the Quechuan farmers maintain some 1200 varieties of potatoes named in their own language....

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Migrating Birds of Falsterbo

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In late September, there are few places in North America where I would rather be than Cape May, New Jersey, arguably the best place on the continent to watch migrating birds in the autumn. But I'm in Europe now, not North America, and this past weekend...

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7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #2

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Here is the second step we should take toward a sustainable society (Click here for...

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When Coal Makes You Thirsty

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Much is written about our oil addiction, but we are addicted to another fossil-drug — coal. And while oil steals the breath from our kids and incentivizes our bad behavior around the world, coal is the major contributor to global warming and one other...

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Integration and Innovation

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By now it's clear that building green is much more than adding a green roof, using solar panels, or identifying which materials will replace the standard ones. Creating a successful green project starts much earlier with the right mindset.

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7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #1

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Crop Repatriation

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Repatriation literally means to bring something back to the fatherland, taking into custody something which once belonged to your cultural community.

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The Mission is Green

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This version is my creation but it sounds a lot like the mission statement of most affordable housing developers in the United States.  The absence of environmental issues in such statements...

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