June 2012
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The Plant in Chicago is awesome.  this rather annoying video clearly explains the no waste approach of the urban farm/food manufacturing facility.  conventional industrial ecology, eat your heart out, literally. building tenants will grow veggies hydroponically, raise tilapia aquaponically, and brew beer and Kombucha tea.  in addition, there will be a mushroom garden, as well as bakers and...
Jun 26th
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Jun 19th
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Jun 19th
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Jun 18th
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The International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge has won this year’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge.  They got $100k.  Bucky Fuller Institute statement here complete ILFI press release here these buildings are awesome
Jun 14th
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Jun 1st