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Visions of the Green Future

California students take Refract House to Solar Decathlon 5
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
On the Silicon Valley campus of Santa Clara University, workers are building a contemporary wood-clad home that wouldn't look out of place in the pages of Dwell or another shelter magazine for the po-mo, Tesla-driving, little-square-eyeglasses-wearing set. Which is exactly the idea. The home is California's entry into the U.S. Department of Energy's biannual Solar Decathlon and is a collaboration between undergraduates at Santa Clara University and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Radiant Cities: Post-Fab

Recession redirects a green-building pioneer 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Just a few years back, Michelle Kaufman was hailed as a shining star in the green building firmament. Now she's shuttering her studio. What will she do next?
Radiant Cities: Levittown, India-style

The folks behind the Nano take their vision to suburbia 5
Posted 6 months ago
What's the next big thing in international architecture? It might be tiny, tiny houses.
Radiant Cities: Getting (Retro)Fit

In some cities, the greenest buildings are already built 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Forget cars and cow farts -- one of the biggest climate villains is inefficient buildings. Lisa Selin Davis explains what New York and other urban areas are doing to fix that.