The Weekly: Oil Spreads, Forest Are Spared, and Green Ideas Sprout

News and solutions of the week from the world of cleantech and sustainability. […]

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May 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, Green Building, Matter Network, The Weekly | Leave a comment

LEED Takes It to the Neighborhood

LEED, the building standard that has lightened the footprint of tens of thousands of structures, announced a new standard today that amplifies the idea to neighborhood scale. […]

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April 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Green Building | Leave a comment

Surburb or City? A Shoe-Leather Perspective

My lady Anjali and I just moved to Washington D.C. and I are trying to figuring out where to buy a house. Do we live in the suburbs, or in the District itself? We’re both children of the suburbs but are conducting our search from a sublet apartment in Adams Morgan, a hip neighborhood in the middle of the city. As I walk around to its stores and restaurants, I ask myself: Could I see living in a big city, not as a lark, but forever? […]

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November 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Environment | 2 comments