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The Environmental Dangers of Backyard Fire Pits: Scientific American
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It’s hard to assess the larger impact of backyard fire pits on local or regional air quality, but no one questions the fact that breathing in wood smoke can be irritating if not downright harmful. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), so-called fine particles (also called particulate matter) are the most dangerous components of wood smoke from a health perspective, as they “can get into your eyes and respiratory system, where they can cause health problems such as burning eyes, runny nose and illnesses such as bronchitis.”
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Fine particles also aggravate chronic heart and lung diseases, and have been linked to premature deaths in those already suffering from such afflictions. As such, the EPA advises that anyone with congestive heart failure, angina, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema or asthma should steer clear of wood smoke in general. Children’s exposure to wood smoke should also be limited, as their respiratory systems are still developing and they breathe more air (and air pollution) per pound of body weight than adults.
Solar Panels & Wind Turbines Power NYC Community Garden : Susty
Bette Midler and Target Launch Green Community Garden: Wind & Solar Power, LED Lighting, Rainwater Collection, Composting
Hobbit house saved from demolition as winds of change blow in pioneer’s favour - Times Online
hobbit house 後續發展
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Mr Wrench and his partner generate their own power, have a compost lavatory
and burn wood they coppice themselves for heat and cooking. He admits that
living sustainably can be hard work, especially in the depths of winter when
his wind turbine and solar panels struggle to power a single light bulb. -
Planning approval has been given for eight roundhouses, along with lavatories,
agricultural buildings and workshops on the land. Power is generated
on-site, water is collected locally and three quarters of the villagers’
income comes from working the land and from craft industries.
the Potters' house < introduction
加拿大的 self-sustainable house. 有詳盡資料
Urban Re:Design’s Re:Construct Competition Winners Announced at West Coast Green 2008
Urban Re:Design is a San Francisco-based, internationally partnered sustainability group whose main focus is finding fresh ideas and ways to look at building and design, so that we can radically alter how we construct our world and make it
These Wings Will Not Fly - City Room
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It was to have been an audacious gesture in an already daring design. As
envisioned by the architect Santiago
Calatrava, the enormous counterpoised wings forming the rooftop of the World
Trade Center Transportation Hub were to have opened
almost 50 feet wide to the sky, in fine weather and on each anniversary of
the terrorist attacks. -
In the text of a speech
prepared for delivery to the Alliance for Downtown New York, Mr. Ward also said:
“Making this decision helps preserve the overall iconic nature of Calatrava’s
winged design, but it will allow the Hub” to “literally fit better with the
other buildings on the site; when the wings opened they came far too close to
the surrounding office towers.”When the idea was introduced four years ago, it was said that the operability
of the roof would help clear the main
John Wardle Architects - Projects
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智慧化居住空間推廣策略 ::: 專屬網站
生活空間 = 居住空間 ?
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