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From Cree, a budget LED that won't make Edison roll over in his grave
Longtime LED innovator Cree makes a game-changing jump into consumer lighting with inexpensive 40W and 60W replacement bulbs that resemble the energy-hogging incandescents of yesteryear.
Texas developer eyes shipping containers in shale boom housing shortage
A developer begins work on a 70-unit shipping container apartment complex in Texas' housing-strapped Eagle Ford Shale region with the goal of attracting folks who will stick around beyond the oil boom.
In New York, 'organic' dry cleaners harbinger of gentrification
The latest indication that you may soon be priced out of your New York City neighborhood? The presence of dry cleaners that eschew — or at least claim to eschew — traditional chemical solvents.
Renewable rules: Lancaster, Calif., requires all new homes to have solar power
Led by a solar-loving Republican mayor and blessed with plenty of sunshine, this Mojave Desert city will require all new single-family homes to be equipped with solar starting in 2014.
Sweet or sour? Redevelopment plans for Domino Sugar plant released
The developers who snatched up Brooklyn's historic Domino Sugar factory this past summer have released the rebooted, sure-to-be-polarizing redevelopment plans for the 11-acre riverfront parcel.
Hong Kong group looks under overpasses as container home sites
Hong Kong activists propose converted shipping containers as a means of affordable housing for young residents in the cramped and overpriced city. The catch? They'd be located beneath highway overpasses.
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).

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