What happens when open source, meets sustainability and tackle on housing? Apparently, a small starter house with state-of-the-art eco features for less than $25,000 and built in five days using materials available at your local hardware store or made from the raw resources of your land.
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In a recent TED Talks, James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about. Audio only: Video:
Air conditioning used to be a luxury — but as Doris Kim Sung points out in this talk from TEDxUSC, modernized society has become thoroughly air-conditioning reliant. This is largely a problem of materials, says Sung, a professor at the USC School of Architecture. Many new buildings — especially skyscrapers […]