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$15K suite deal includes Bay views, Ferrari - Luxury- msnbc.comThe ceiling of the penthouse suite's billiard room is made of 1,800 pieces of etched glass, which had to be cleaned. "The challenge is 15 feet up in the air, 20 feet in the air on a ladder popping each piece out," says Sue Kanke who led that effort as well as restoring 2,000 pieces of crystal on ...
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Display And Design Ideas SlideshowThe new, streamlined Ben & Jerry’s style incorporates natural materials to create the unified funky farm vibe at its Burlington, Vt., Flagship, designed by San Francisco-based brand design firm Tesser, which specializes in restaurant revamps.
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Solar tiles that offer style | Green Tech - CNET NewsSolar tiles that offer style Will a better aesthetic tempt more people into going solar? SRS Energy is betting on it. The company has partnered with US Tile, a leading manufacturer of Spanish, slate, and shake roof tiles, to design solar panels with the exact same shapes as their clay ...
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PISE Does It - Homes - DwellBetween two of the most beautiful towns on the California coast, Carmel-by-the-Sea and Big Sur, there’s a hidden valley: 31 square miles shared by just 300 families, each of whom owns a small parcel and the right to build. The area, originally known as Rancho San Carlos, was one of the last ...
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From green roofs to living walls | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkCalifornia Academy of Sciences green roof designer plans to create a living structure. The creative genius behind the award-winning California Academy of Sciences living roof is Rana Creek, an ecological design firm located in Carmel Valley, California. The company is now preparing for an ...
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Startup Captures Waste Heat; Audience AwardIt speaks loudly to a company's prospects when it wins the award for the most promising technology, as voted by an audience of about 900 clean tech-savvy people. Ener-G-Rotors did just that. The startup company from Schenectady, N.Y. won the Most Promising Technology Award at the Cleantech Forum...
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EPA: Energy Star Buildings Save $1.7 Billion Dollars a YearGreen building has constructed quite a name for itself, but the demolished economy makes one wonder if builders will start choosing price over planet. Fortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency has provided a modest pick-me-up, honoring the 25 U.S. cities with the most energy efficient ...
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Wired Video: Artist Creates Robot Slaves, Spinning Sculpture | Gadget Lab from Wired.comTucked away in a quiet residential neighborhood of San Francisco is a little workshop that opens its doors rather infrequently to the outside world. But when it does, it is an electro-mechanical wonderland. Called Area 2881, after its address, it is a 400-square-foot installation of kinetic and ...
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Project Frog raises $8M for cheap, green modular buildings » VentureBeatTo some, the idea of buildings that can be delivered by trucks conjures up visions of depressing rural trailer parks. But Project Frog’s designs offer a modern variation on the prefabricated building theme, with cheap modular buildings that are also energy efficient.Project Frog’s buildings are ...
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Eco-Cities: Urban Planning for the Future: Scientific AmericanToday it is an almost completely paved naval air base built atop earthen material dredged from the San Francisco Bay in the 1930s. By 2020 it is scheduled to become one of the most sustainable communities in the U.S. According to a master plan from the engineering firm Arup, the 400-acre island ...
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