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Smaller Grids = Better Efficiency

By kimba | Published: February 17, 2009
With all of the talk these days, finally, of creating a new, alternative, energy grid, I began to think about what this grid was going to look like. And that worries me. I know that it takes great effort on the part of most people to see, or even comprehend, the value of the desert. I [...]
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Janine Benyus: 12 Sustainable Design Ideas From Nature

By kimba | Published: January 31, 2009
This TEDtalk is four years old, but is still, and probably always will be, relevant. It will always remind us that we not only need to design things for our use and consumption that get along with nature, we need to look at nature first to figure out how to design the things we use [...]
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