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    Test Facility Begins Capturing Carbon from Air

    Pilot plant in Canada tries to demonstrate carbon capture on an industrial scale. On Friday a group of government officials, environmentalists, and local bigwigs gathered in the coastal town of Squamish, British Columbia, about an hour north of Vancouver, to ...
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    Air-Purifying Hula-Hoops

    This Smart Hula-Hoop by Quadruple H Encourages Health & Wellness. This clever design concept by Quadruple H is a unique hybrid of an air purifier and a children’s hula-hoop toy. The clever concept is an app-connected hula-hoop that encourages children ...
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    Mobile smog-free tower

    A seven metre tall tower designed by Daan Roosegaarde filters dirty air, releasing bubbles of smog free air. Does it detract from tackling causes of air pollution? The smog-free tower in Rotterdam sucks in dirty air, filters it and returns ...
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    The Salt Project | Building with Seawater in the Desert

    The Salt Project is a biomimetic attempt to create architecture using seawater in the desert. By using locally available resources we can grow plants and create architecture without producing waste. The United Nations consider desertification the ‘greatest threat to our planet’ (The ...
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    Plyscrapers will mark future skylines

    If the 20th century was the century of the skyscraper, then the 21st century is shaping up as the century of the “plyscaper.” Despite its historical reputation for great city fires — London in 1666, the Great Chicago fire of ...
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    Asia Green Buildings

    Asia Green Buildings: China: Introduction Of WELL Building Standard Highlights Social Awareness. Today, the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) and the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) formally introduced the WELL Building Standard in China. WELL is a system that focuses on ...
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    Healthy Materials for Building

    Within the last decade, environmental health has become an increasingly important decision making factor for practitioners within the green building community. The USGBC with its LEED Green Building Rating System brought issues surrounding indoor environmental quality and material health to ...
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    This lamp can lift the winter blues

    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Éléonore Delisse designed the Day and Night light in response to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD affects millions of people around the world each year and it is the onset of depression associated with late autumn ...
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    The Architecture of Wellness

    As architects, we seek to inspire those who move through the environments we create.  It’s also our job to understand how the space will be used and create elements that support that use.  The last leg of the stool, a ...