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Urban Rooftop Farming: the Answer to Our Sustainable Food Crisis?

Montreal-based agribusiness, Lufa Farms, just might have the solution we’ve been looking for in the global fight to move towards more sustainable food production practices. Lufa Farms grows produce in greenhouses constructed on top of buildings in Montreal. The food Read More ›

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Rotating Skyscraper – Generates Electricity to Cover its Energy Needs

Visionary Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced in 2010 the launch of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world’s first building in motion, to be constructed in Dubai and Moscow with other locations planned worldwide. “Our intention is to build the Read More ›

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Elithis Tower: Remarkable Energy Efficient Structure

French engineers are paving the way towards more environmentally friendly structures. Indeed, the Elithis group developed a building which is not only more energy efficient but which generates more energy than what it actually consumes. The breakthrough doesn’t end here, Read More ›

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$300 to House the Poor

David A. Smith, the founder of the Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) tells us that “markets alone will never satisfactorily house a nation’s poorest citizens…whether people buy or rent, housing is typically affordable to only half of the population.” The result? Smith Read More ›

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Qatar Develops Solar Powered Clouds to cool 2022 World Cup stadiums

The ‘cloud’, which looks more like a spacecraft is built with ultra-light carbon material which is crammed with helium and therefore it is light in weight. It is powered with solar-energy and is operated by the use of a remote Read More ›

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Architecture for Humanity

“The fact that nobody told us we couldn’t do it, we did it,” says Cameron Sinclair, one of the co-founders of Architecture for Humanity. In 1999, a small group of people, who believed that they can do more with architecture Read More ›

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