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Habitat for Humanity Modular House wins AIA Award
The American Institute of Architects just announced its 2007 Housing Awards; among the winners were our beloved Loblolly House and in the Special Housing Category, the Designhabitat2 house, from The...
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Buy T-shirt, Build Home, Look Hot, House Families
That's the simple premise behind this campaign. Cameron Sinclair, "lumberjack sized Brit", author of Design Like You Give a Damn, and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity tells the story of meeting...
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Pray for Rain
He has encouraged people to pray for the following week, in attempt to bring rainfall. "Throughout our history,
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How Long Until The Rust Belt Becomes The Life Belt?
Alabama is contemplating a pipeline to the Great Lakes. We've said it time and again: transient drought will not drive the US Federal government to pipe Great Lakes water to the drought stricken...
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Two Remaining Pieces To The Atlanta Drought Puzzle
Why a water crisis in Atlanta now? The cause is not climate alone, as Lloyd's post of today points out. Runaway growth - Georgia is the fastest growing US state east of the Rocky Mountains - and a...
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Industries And Power Plants Downstream From Atlanta Also Need Water: Not Just...
When Governor Sonny Perdue of the US State of Georgia filed a legal complaint and then formally asked for the support of the Bush Administration to force the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop...
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Southeast & Mid-Atlantic US Drought Update
With TeeVee news cameras focused exclusively on the California and Mexico wildfires, the thirsty and parched on the other coast are not going to be forgotten by us. The East Coast and Southeast US...
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US Department Of Interior Secretary Calls Atlanta Drought "No Longer A Theory"
US Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has reported on a compromise between three Southern US Governors who had been struggling over diminished access to shared surface waters. The...
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Slow Cook Your Way Out Of A Drought-Stricken Electricity Bill
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is proposing a rate increase due to extreme drought having reduced their ability to ramp up hydroelectric generators in time for customers to turn on the bright...
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California Leads the Energy Efficiency Race: American Council for an...
So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on...
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What the Heck? Second Coal Ash Spill, this Time in Alabama
Image: Google Maps. We think this is the Widows Creek power plant where the spill happened, but if anyone from Alabama could confirm, please do so in the comments. Coal Waste Spill at At Alabama Coal...
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US Federal Judge Awards Compensation For Chinese Drywall-Caused, Wiring,...
A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of
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Nature Conservancy Land Purchase Could Save Alabama's Red Hills Salamander
A little salamander that is found in only a
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The Anatomy of an Oil Spill Cleanup: What Works and What Doesn't
Preston Kott of U.S. Environmental Services moves oil absorbent boom into a warehouse at a pollution control staging area in Venice, La., April 27, 2010. Staging areas are being set up along the Gulf...
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Is The BP Spill Big Enough To Resuscitate The Environmental Movement?
Floating residues from the ongoing BP oil 'blowout' in the Gulf are expansive enough to be easily visible from space. Satellite photos of oil on salt water
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BP's Blowout Could Be 'The Three Mile Island of Offshore Drilling'
I'm a big fan of scenario thinking. Although no one can predict "the future," several plausible scenarios can be constructed, informing decisions made difficult by many unknowns. A good decision works in
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Mobile Bay Alabama's First Line Of Oil Defense Is Bigger Boom On 2,000 Pound...
A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that
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Southern US Apple Growers Lose 2010 Crop Due to High Temperatures
I'm not saying you can directly attribute this one to climate change, but coming on the heals of NOAA saying the past April was the warmest on record, it's likely at least a sign of things to come:...
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BP Goes For Extra Hurricane Point: 22 Mile Long Plume Moving Toward Alabama
British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick...
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Mississippi Governor Barbour Opposes Widespread Beach Berm Building In Louisiana
"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend....
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Much Of US South Experiencing Extreme Drought - Let The Water Wars Begin
Large swaths of US southern states are experiencing severe drought
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100-1000 And Restore Coastal Alabama Partnership's Inaugural Massive Oyster...
Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots
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Survival Skills Are Still Sustainable, Even If You'll Never Need Them
A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.
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Alabama Becomes First State To Officially Adopt Anti-Agenda 21 Legislation
Environmentalists and Urban Planners on the run as smart growth and sustainability become illegal in the State.
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Alabama man feeds the homeless by teaching them to grow their own food
Even in the dark pit of poverty, where rays of hope shine their dimmest, there's often still light enough for a new life to take hold.
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Matthew Mazzotta replaces blighted wreck with a theater in a box
In York, Alabama they now have public space where before they had a collapsing house.
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Artist transforms derelict underpass with rainbow light installation
An old Art Deco underpass is renewed with a colorful work of luminous art.
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Alabama Teen Fights Pollution in her Community
Cece Durden, a 17-year-old from Uniontown, Alabama, fights coal ash pollution in her hometown
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Broken iPhones recycled for stylish home decor
There is a new use for your smashed iPhone: a clock.
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