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America's First Zero-Impact Living Building
Fast Company July/August 2009

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is a $3.2 million "living building" in Rhinebeck, New York, the first of its kind to have no detrimental environmental effects. The main component of the des...

Blogging San Francisco Chronicle: Trash Police

First, San Francisco banned the plastic bag. Now, mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing the nation's first mandatory recycling and composting law....

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