Why Fresh Air Helps You Think: Top 5 Stories This Week

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Squeezing big box stores (and more people) into cities, living in a CO2 fog, and tallying up the value of green homes.

The "Värm" home from Bensonwood's Unity Homes offshoot is inspired by Swedish design.Photo Credit: Unity Homes

How much more dense can you get?

It turns out you can get pretty darn dense even without building mile

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LED and Power: Quality Matters

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LED replacement lamps look super-efficient on payback charts and utility bills, but they may be sucking more power than you realize.

LED replacement lamps like this one from Cree  have a high power factor; those intended for residential use often don't. Photo Credit: Cree, Inc.

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Heating With Wood Safely and Efficiently

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Understanding wood stoves and wood heat so that you can educate your clients.

Vermont Castings Encore-NC wood stove with an EPA emissions rating of 0.7 grams per hour. Click to enlarge.Photo Credit: Vermont Castings

I’ve been heating primarily with wood since I bought our house 31 years ago, though there were a few years following our installation of an oil boiler when wood consumption dropped considerably.

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The Green Building Community Has Lost One of Its Pillars

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Our friend and mentor, Malcolm Lewis, has passed away

Malcolm Lewis will be sorely missed.Photo Credit: Harvey Mudd College

Malcolm Lewis, Ph.D., the founder of Constructive Technologies Group, a member of the EBN Advisory Board, and long a quiet leader in the green building movement, died on October 13th of bladder cancer.

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Good News and Bad News With the World Glut in Solar Panels

How China is affecting the world’s photovoltaic industry
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Workers at a Suntech factory in China. Due to the glut in PV, Suntech has closed a quarter of it's manufacturing capacity.Photo Credit: Peter Parks, Getty Images for the New York Times

When China dives into a technology, it does so in a big way. Nowhere is this more the case than in photovoltaic (PV) panel manufacturing, where dramatic growth has not only taken a toll on other manufacturers around the world, but also now threatens its own PV industry through rampant oversupply.

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