Most people don’t know that it takes more than an hour of labor to make most shoes and that they usually use lots of toxic adhesive. That’s what makes a “green and responsible shoe” a true challenge. Below is an attempt by Patagonia to present some of the benefits of globalization, while showing a [...]

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Brio54 is the latest group of residential designers promoting the combo of modern design with green living and affordability. They show 3 impressive plans on their new website, including a home designed for a downward sloping suburban lot, a design for an urban infill lot, and a design for converting a 1960’s ranch. Beautiful [...]

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The face of downtown Raleigh will be changing soon, with a new and contemporary energy conscious building for the headquarters of the North Carolina chapter of American Institute of Architects. There was a state-wide competition to find the right statement which, of course, includes aesthetic and functional awesomeness as well as fulfilling the goal [...]

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Thanks to our good friend Susan who gave us this design heads-up, we now know that Aquaduct has won a pedal-powered machine contest called Innovate or Die. The contest was sponsored by Specialized and Google. Aquaduct is amazing in that it is a bike designed for third world countries (or maybe Raleigh if this drought [...]

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Kelly’s post on the Tata made me think about the Smart Car. I first saw one in Europe in 1999 and have been wanting one ever since. The car is supposedly made in an eco-friendly way (at least in Europe). It’s super cute, and I love that there is at least some chance that I [...]

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