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Dying To Work: Human Trafficking and the Construction Industry

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Skyscraper, Uae, Dubai, Zero Carbon, Ethics, Design, Building, Architecture, Human Trafficking, Business News

What good is building a zero energy, carbon neutral complex if unethical labor practices are jeopardizing the lives of those who build this architectural wonder?

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Apartment Building Associations Promoting Energy Inefficiency?

A. Siegel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Architecture, Green Building, Energy, Cap and Trade, Building Codes, Apartment Buildigns, Energy Efficiency, Building, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Those struggling to delay action to turn the tides on Global Warming's rising seas come from many angles and bring to the table many truthiness-laden arguments.

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Never Mind Google Streetview... We Need Google "Heat" View

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Google, Google Advertising, Google Search, Google Streetview, Green Technology, Green Building, Green, Sustainability, Green Living, Google Maps, Building, Green Energy, Green Buildings, Green News

Google, you've developed a fantastic and sophisticated engine for processing imagery; can we please borrow it to save the world?

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Name the Buildings Right

Edward Lifson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Bob Herbert, Willis Tower, Building, Jesse Jackson Jr., Mayor Daley, Home News

The Willis Tower? I don't think so, pal. Some London-based company wants to rename our tower and Mayor Daley is going to let them? What has happened to our city?

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Tower Bloxx: Build Your Town!

www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Games, Tower Bloxx, Tower, Bloxx, Puzzle, Build, Tower Blocks, Action, Building, Comedy News

Tower Bloxx is among the most decorated games you can get for your mobile phone, winning two Game of the Year Awards and multiple Editor's Choice awards! Now available in flash! Tower Bloxx scored an impressive 9 out of 10, one of the highest review scores for any mobile game! IGN, a leading reviewer, says "Awesome! DChoc's new puzzler surprises and delights - this one's a real winner" and "Games of this caliber are must-haves.

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Massively Efficient Path to Save the Economy

A. Siegel | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Ed Mazria, Energy Efficiency, Architecture 2030, Economy, Green, Architecture, Jobs, Construction, Building, Stimulus, Business News

Here is a path for desperately required short-term stimulus that also will help in meeting our desperate need to change our course: Stimulate the economy. Save money. Help stop Global Warming. Works for me.

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Build, Baby, Build: An Opportunity For Unity

Bill Scher | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Infrastructure, Building, New Deal, Politics News

Do conservatives want their spawn to be carping 75 years from now that public investment didn't create a clean energy economy, didn't establish high-speed rail, and didn't lift our economy out of the ditch?

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Our Crisis Is Not Economic -- Part Two

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.11.2008 | Green

It is no longer heresy to suggest that by continuing our automobile economy we are throwing money, architecture, design and ecology down a black hole.

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