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Jill is a green design evangelist, founder of Inhabitat.com and a grad student at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She started green design blog Inhabitat in the Spring of 2005 as a way to catalog her endless search for new ways to improve the world through forward-thinking, high-tech, and environmentally conscious design. She currently resides in New York City, which suits her obsession with rooftop gardens and vegan junk food restaurants.

Member Since: August 21, 2006

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Container City in London

Art & Design – we love the idea of using recycled industrial surplus as the starting point for prefab design, and now Urban Space Management has brought shipping containers to multi-unit, larger-scale housing with the introduction of its component-based, flexible, and widely applicable container construction system.

View Story Discuss (3) (inhabitat.com) 347 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on June 11, 2007 09:26am

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Hacked Robotic Dogs Sniff out Pollution

Science – Natalie Jeremijenko's brilliant Feral Dog project refurbishes old toy robotic dogs such as "Poo-chi" and gives them new life - turning them into lean green pollution-sniffing machines, which are "released" en masse into a community space to sniff out harmful VOCs, ozone, and other environmental toxins - creating a spectacle and

View Story Discuss (0) (inhabitat.com) 451 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on February 26, 2007 11:04am

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Florida Real Estate Market Bottomed out in 2006; Growth Expected to Resume in 2008

Real Estate – A new report released today by Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund finds that Florida's housing markets slowed in 2006 in nearly every geographic region, and that Florida's economy has downshifted from a period of spectacular growth to merely strong growth and will continue through 2007 and into the first half of 2008 before giving way to more robust g

View Story Discuss (2) (home.businesswire.com) 477 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2007 12:04pm

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Stocks mixed after Boeing report

Money – Stocks were narrowly mixed in early trading Wednesday as the economy gave off fresh signs it could sidestep a sharp slowdown and quarterly results from Boeing Co. blew past projections. The robust data offset some skittishness about the Federal Reserve Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates due later in the day.

View Story Discuss (2) (meadowfreepress.com) 477 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2007 12:02pm

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First signs of a cooling U.K. housing market as mortgage approvals fall

Real Estate – Mortgage approvals in the U.K. have declined in December, Bank of England figures showed, a clear sign that higher borrowing costs are beginning to impact the housing market.

View Story Discuss (2) (earthtimes.org) 477 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2007 12:01pm

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Housing market isn't rebounding yet

Real Estate – Prices of single-family homes across the nation rose in November at the slowest rate in more than a decade, a housing index released Tuesday by Standard & Poor's showed, countering other evidence that the housing slowdown may be nearing an end.

View Story Discuss (1) (delawareonline.com) 477 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2007 11:59am

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Prepare for a 'Repricing' of the U.S. Housing Market

Real Estate – If it is true that housing follows very long patterns - with a cycle as long as 120 years - when the market really goes down, homeowners might wait a long, long time before they get their money back.

View Story Discuss (1) (dailyreckoning.com.au) 477 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2007 11:56am

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Bush takes aim at executive salaries

Money – President Bush took aim Wednesday at huge salaries and bonuses for corporate executives, going to Wall Street to say compensation packages should hinge on how good a job a CEO does for the shareholders.

View Story Discuss (5) (sunherald.com) 477 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2007 11:52am

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Profitable opportunities to save energy: Why do we keep missing them?

Science – Why do people tend to overlook a lot of profitable opportunities to save energy? Grist explores...

View Story Discuss (0) (gristmill.grist.org) 478 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2007 01:09pm

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First Signs Of A Cooler Housing Market

Real Estate – House prices in the UK in January rose by just 0.3 per cent, the lowest monthly rise for eight months, says the Nationwide...

View Story Discuss (1) (findaproperty.com) 478 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2007 01:07pm

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Evidence of cooling housing market builds

Real Estate – Mortgage lending notched up a record rise last month but new mortgage approvals showed their weakest increase since April, indicating the housing market may be peaking in the wake of rising borrowing costs.

View Story Discuss (1) (today.reuters.co.uk) 478 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2007 01:06pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 195 votes / 17 sinks

Millions to go hungry, waterless: climate report

Science – Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report.

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Voted for on January 30, 2007 01:00pm

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Gentrification in Ancient Cities

Real Estate – High real estate prices in Rome are driving the last Jews from their homes in the old ghetto, which is transforming itself into a trendy enclave.

View Story Discuss (1) (nytimes.com) 480 days ago by ecomod

Submitted and Voted for on January 28, 2007 01:36pm