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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

NEOhiodemocrat

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3. I know the building she is designing now includes passive solar

Reply to txlibdem (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 02:47 PM

Mar 2012

and a closed water system. ( it is a design for riverfront Pittsburg) She does incorporate green roofs, but what are vertical farms? Well, she may know and just not have mentioned it to me. I love that they are learning green building also. She graduates in May and is thinking of landscaping architecture for her masters. Maybe the vertical farms has something to do with that?

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I love this, such a good idea NEOhiodemocrat Mar 2012 #1

Good for her txlibdem Mar 2012 #2

I know the building she is designing now includes passive solar NEOhiodemocrat Mar 2012 #3

Zero Energy Concept Building (ZECB) Rollin White May 2012 #4

I am going to "bookmark" this and read it later Kolesar May 2012 #5

Thanks for sharing. Looks like you've been hard at work. Starboard Tack May 2012 #6

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