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The Triumph of Multifamily Housing

By Nico Larco / On May 27th, 2014
  Attractive pedestrian paths in Eola Heights, Salem, OR. Photo courtesy Nico Larco, Kristin Kelsey, and Amanda West.
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From Carton to Carpet: Recycled Homes

By Avi Friedman / On March 8th, 2012
North Americans are doing their fair share in reducing the millions of tons of domestic garbage that the country generates.  Each week they carefully sort their own waste and place it in a box near the curb for a pickup.  When the program began, some argued that recycling is no more than fancy garbage collection.  They were wrong.  Not only has recycling eased the pressure on our landfills, recycled products became the prime component in many construction products.
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Resiliant cities and the crash

By Peter Newman / On November 12th, 2008
The financial crash is developing a whole industry of responses that can tell us where we went wrong and what we must do to make our future more resilient, especially in our cities where so much of the crash is hurting. Finance and economics dominate this discussion. We believe that a better understanding of what makes cities work will help in this debate, especially how urban transport and energy are fundamental to how the urban economy works or doesn't. What caused the crash?
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Solar, the benefits are big but the funding is not

By Walker Wells / On November 4th, 2008
In the green world, the "benefits of solar" is bandied about as dogma. But exactly what kind of benefits are we talking about? Economic? Environmental? Social? All of the above?

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