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A Real House From the Shire
I could not help but think of Lord of the Rings when I saw this website. This home is environmentally sound and it does look quite comfortable. (…)

Green Roofs Combat Greenhouse Gases
I love the New York Times because you can usually rely on it for great articles and unusual topics. This article in particular was all about green roofing. What it means is that companies wishing to go green spend green to plant green on their rooftops. (…)

Tornado Leads to Green Design
This article from the New York Times talked about the greening of a small town called Greensburg in Kansas after a tornado had destroyed the area two years prior. (…)

Golden Gophers are Green
I have to start off by admitting a bias I have: I was a Golden Gopher during my college days and so this article brought me great pride. The new football stadium for the University of Minnesota was finished for this fall and has achieved the LEED silver rating. (…)

Harvesting Kinetic Energy
I was taken aback by this article because it presented an idea I have never heard proposed before: harvesting the kinetic energy of cars. For those who do not know, kinetic energy is the energy of movement. When cars are moving along, they create kinetic energy that has not been harvested before. A company called New Energy Technologies is working to change this. (…)

REAL Buildings
I like this article for many reasons. First, it highlights a business in Tampa Bay called REAL Buildings that creates homes that are more environmentally friendly. Second, it provides some ideas for other who are also interested in going green. (…)

White Roofs and Energy
This article is part of a series on energy in general. The first half focuses on the use of white materials for roofing as a method of going green. White roofing works in a method similar to wearing a white shirt on a sunny day. Many people know from experience that a white shirt will feel much cooler than a darker shirt. The same is true of roofing. The white color better reflects the sun and therefore can lower the use of cooling systems. Many places have adopted this simple technique. (…)

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