LiveModern: Your Best Modern Home
With heart and soul
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Photo: Mikkel Adsbøl/KML DesignLove the nursery in this Danish apartement! From KML Design:"When Mette and Mikkel Adsbøls housing hunt began in 2007, they wanted specifically to find a home with a soul. But they also wanted to stay in green surroundings [...]
Thomas Friedman, the Accidental Environmentalist
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Thomas Friedman argues that sustainable design is patriotic. Will non-choir members be convinced? Posted the next day. As Bourbon Street throbs beneath my hotel room window, it is a little hard to focus on anything else--and in my [...]
Plastic Bottle Construction
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This 624-square-foot bungalow utilizes quite an innovative construction process: it's put together with sand-filled plastic bottles, each one capped and weighing about two pounds.Read Full [...]
Switch Lighting Unveils First 100-watt equivalent LED
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One of the most common complaints when it comes to switching over to LED lighting is that, although they save energy, the bulbs aren’t as bright as their incandescent counterparts. Switch Lighting is attempting to quell these complaints by [...]
Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?
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Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has [...]
7 Great Outdoor Spaces from Dwell
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While perusing Dwell's website recently, I came across this short slideshow featuring seven terrific outdoor spaces from homes they've featured in the magazine. I particularly adored the above photo, a porch equipped with a hot tub and solar sail [...]
Outdoor Living: Before & After TransformationsBest of 2011
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Outdoor living spaces are a natural extension of your home, and they can be as simple as a quiet corner for meditation or as extensive as a fully xeriscaped front yard. To make your own sanctuary outside of the house, look to these projects for [...]
I'm looking for ways to reduce the amount of energy I use for lighting (without resorting to candles!). What type of light bulbs should I use?
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I leave the lights off unless absolutely necessary, and I try to use sunlight when I can. I'm looking for cost-efficient light [...]
The Minnie House Meets Jetson Green
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Yesterday The Minnie House was featured on JETSON GREEN, Preston Koerner's excellent blog about sustainable living. Feel free to take a [...]
More On The Gates Foundation's Plans To Reinvent The Toilet (Video)
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Yesterday I expressed some reservations about the Gates Foundation plans to reinvent the toilet in Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet . I was concerned that they were looking for a solution to a problem that was not technological but [...]
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