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Solar-powered home embraces tree canopy views in all directions

AGreenLiving

In the coastal township of Barwon Heads, Australian architecture firm Peter Winkler Architects has completed the Green Velvet House, a family’s solar-powered home that sensitively responds to the landscape in more ways than one. Recycled “Grey Ironbark” hardwood columns and beams are also featured throughout the building.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Joel Makower.

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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. Most of the others - SPI Nos.