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Eco show homes
Photo: Visitors explore the back yard of the Wired LivingHome in Los Angeles. The $4 million prefabricated house has an automated energy system. Photo: Wired ma...
Fujitsu Siemens – bad people to do business with
Never buy a computer from Fujitsu or Fujitsu Siemens – here’s why...
Cell-phone base stations
The phone industry’s efforts to put cellphone base stations everywhere is spurring advances in renewable power...
Perrey Reeves, naturally
Perrey in red, and mum in white Perrey Reeves who plays Mrs. Ari Gold in Entourage on HBO is in real life no power-hungry toady, but an off-grid fanatic. Born i...
Let’s toast organic living
Lucky Colleen in front of home Colleen Stewart has a job many would envy – she is in charge of hospitality and wine tastings at the Bonterra vineyard, an organi...
Eco-homes for $70,000
Your own architect designed eco home for as little as $70,000. Yes really, and coming soon to a tourist resort near you....
Return of the Cold War
Bush-Putin herald a return to the fears of the 1970s – superpower aggression for them, and cowering in out-of-town fallout shelters for us...
Memo from Turner
Laura: did she really need 5000 ft? Welcome to EcoManor, built in Atlanta by Ted Turner’s daughter. At 5,000 square feet its about as eco as a Hummer, but...
Yogiversity goes green
Maharishi University plans greenest ever educational facility in Iowa...
Daryl admits “I was naive”
Biofuel has had some unfortunate side-effects, like the use of corn to make ethanol, admits Hannah,one of the main campaigners for biofuel over the past five ye...
Star gazing
A new observatory in Northern England is completely off-grid...
Elephant Tree House
Trees are the theme of three new shows near Philly, and a motif for the year in the US...