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Horseball tweets and needlepoint Purrell sleeves [Friday news clump]
This week in the news: The finest IKEA horseball tweets, needlepoint cozies for Purrell bottles, a defiantly parking-less apartment complex in Boston and the oddest looking country retreat you ever did see.
Active House movement hits Toronto with skylight-centric luxury condos
Now that, sir, is a skylight. Lighthaus, a development of 20 energy-efficient townhouses in Toronto's west end, boasts innovative modular skylight systems from Velux that promote fresh air and natural light.
WFH House: A green abode that conceals freight container framework
Meet the WFH House, a shipping container home with a green roof, photovoltaics, abundant natural daylighting and a bamboo facade that prevents it from looking like a shipping container home at all.
Happy campers: Hittin' the road in a 40-square-foot teardrop trailer [Video]
Blogger Christina Nelleman invites faircompanies to squeeze on in to the Sunflower, a teardrop-shaped tiny home-on-wheels that's compact size encourages more outdoor time (provided the weather behaves).
In Sonoma, a green community that's free of sensory overloads
At Sweetwater Spectrum, the first residential community in the nation to be geared specifically for autistic adults, sustainable and autism-specific design merge with beautiful results.
In a first for the Pacific Northwest, spec home meets Passivhaus standards
When it comes to blower door tests, the second time's a charm for a built-on-spec passive house located in Seattle's Columbia Station green micro-community.
The state of the socket: Osram Sylvania releases lighting survey
Osram Sylvania releases its fifth annual Sylvania Socket Survey. The key takeaway: Many folks are jazzed about the incandescent phase-out even though they don't really have a clue what's going on.
When saving an endangered Wright home requires relocating it ... to Italy
A New Jersey couple is selling their Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home with one major stipulation: in order to save it from flooding, the buyer must relocate it ... preferably to a village in Tuscany.
A bird's-eye view of Hong Kong's impossibly cramped 'cubicle' flats [Photos]
As micro-apartments reach trendy new heights in America, a human rights group in Hong Kong releases dramatic photos detailing what it's like to live in that city's notorious 'cubicle' apartments.
Spa day: Hiber-Nation '13
With springtime finally in sight, it's time to start thinking about dusting away the cosmetic cobwebs of winter with the help of at-home spa goodies ... vegan bubble bath and organic body scrub included.

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