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New EPA Fuel Economy Numbers: Ford and GM Show the Most Gains
New projected 2009 US fuel economy figures out from the EPA show that we have now reversed a long-term trend of gradually worsening fuel efficiency since 1987—that bottomed out in 2004 at 19.3 mpg....
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Corps of Engineers Held Responsible for Catastrophic Flooding from Katrina
A federal court ruling handed down last week charged the Army Corps of Engineers with “gross negligence” that led to the catastrophic flooding in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Read the...
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What’s Your Building’s EQ? – ASHREA Testing Whole Buildng Energy Use Program,...
Image credit: BuildingEQ.com , Building Energy Quotient Certificate example, “A-” as designed. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is pilot testing...
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Fiber-Grass Will Be a Self-Sustaining Mixed-Use Development in Greater Noida,...
Fiber-Grass is a sustainable mixed-use development in Greater Noida, which is located about 25 miles southeast of New Delhi in Northern India. The project, designed by Dinkoff Architects &...
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Concrete Mode Repurpose Waste Cement Bags into Sturdy Totes
Concrete Mode is a Thailand-based company that creates incredibly sturdy totes, bags and pencil cases the discarded bags used to transport concrete. Concrete is the most consumed man-made material on...
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Rock-Sette is a Sustainable Disaster Prevention and Education Center for...
Designed by Dinkoff Architects and Engineers , Rock-Sette is a self-sufficient and non-polluting disaster prevention and education center for Istanbul, Turkey. The project draws in water from the...
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Dramatic Greenhouses Accentuate Ecorium Eco-Park Opening in Korea
Read the rest of Dramatic Greenhouses Accentuate Ecorium Eco-Park Opening in Korea Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco park , eco-dome , Ecorium Ecoplex , environmental preservation ,...
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Samoo Architects & Engineers to design Ulju Government Complex in South Korea
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Watch a BMW morph into a standing Transformer-like bot
A Turkish company has made many a Transformers fan’s dream turn to reality—the engineers at Letrons have turned a BMW into a Transformer-like bot capable of speech and cool special effects. Using a...
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