How Does Your Garden Grow? Tips for the Home Organic Gardening Beginner

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Ready to start gardening this Spring? Wherever you live – in a house with a yard or an apartment with a balcony – you can use these tips to grow some of your own produce.

Resilient Design: Building Green Means Building to Last

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Some people, when they look at how to design a home that is “green,” and efficiently uses resources, often look back to the days of old, when houses were built to last as well as with a consciousness of the environment in which one lives. Many terms these “resilient homes.” They are built to stand the test of time and be efficient in their use of resources.

Wind Power Facts: Emissions Through the Lifecycle

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A recent scholarly paper decided to tackle the problem of the emissions of wind power, wishing to quantify the actual emissions so as to make accurate comparisons between wind power and other sources of electrical power generations.

Gainesville, Florida Sees Massive Increase in Solar Power Usage

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Gainesville, Florida’s implementation of a feed-in tariff has made it one of the country’s leaders in solar power installation.

The LowLine: New York Seeks to Retrofit Underground Station into Park

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Dan Barasch and James Ramsey took a cue from the High Line, a reclamation of an old above ground line that had been changed into a park. Taking it a step further they proposed an underground park in the long abandoned underground trolley station under Delancey street.