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Residents Seek Environmental Justice in GA, Sue City Over Decades of Sewage Dumping
A group of African-American citizens filed suit today against their city government in Rochelle, GA, for discharging the city’s raw sewage onto their properties …
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Fracking the Ocean and California’s San Andreas Fault
The marquis concern plaguing Californians about fracking in their state has to do with another notable geologic feature: the San Andreas Fault and its cousins. The main fault line lies …
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Modern Seaweed House Revives Tradition of Seaweed-Thatched Roofs
Designed by Danish architect Tegnestuen Vandkunsten for client Realdania Byg, The Modern Seaweed House features the use of seaweed in thatch-like layers on the roof in a manner that has become a disappearing tradition on the Danish island of Læsø, where only twenty such historical houses remain. The benefits of seaweed cladding include thermal and…
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Park Passive is First Certified Passive House in Seattle
Attendees of the 2013 Explore Design Home Tour, sponsored by American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle, will get up close and personal with Park Passive, one of seven homes on the Tour and the first home in Seattle to be designated as a Passive House in accordance with the requirements set by Passive House Academy…
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EcoWatch Is Hiring a Website Developer
EcoWatch is hiring a WordPress website developer on a contract basis to manage its online news service EcoWatch.com and rollout two additional verticals …