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Randolph Place is a 50-unit senior housing community in the heart of Randolph, a historic Richmond neighborhood. The building, constructed in 1896 and added onto in 1946, was originally a neighborhood public school.

I recently went through the scoring tool on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) green building website www.nahbgreen.org.

The Cannon Beach Residence is located along the northern Oregon coast, with excellent orientation to the south for daylighting and views of the ocean.

The home was designed to generate as much energy as it consumes annually.

Boston.com's regular feature, The Big Picture, presents "news stories in photographs." The March 18th edition is prefaced:

The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle

After a recent series of unsavory news reports, the European Commission has announced that its fisheries policy may need to be overhauled due to continued ecological decline and unsustainable fishing practices.

The Italian government banned the use of several neonicotinoid pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees.

Think the polar bear has it bad? Here are 10 critters who are even worse off than our favorite threatened Arctic resident. Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List as critically endangered, meaning they face an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future.

Hydrogen, touted by many sources as the carbon neutral "energy of the future", has been receiving more and more attention lately in both environmental circles and the popular press.

Enertia Electric Motorcycle
Brammo has just raised $10 million from investors that include Best Buy Capital (will we see electric motorcycles in Best Buy stores?) to move forward production on the Enertia electric motorcycle.

Ford Canada has a media program where they lend cars out to writers; I don't drive a lot (and our car guy Mike was too far away) but had never been in a hybrid so took them up on their offer of a 2008 Escape hybrid.

My first reaction was that IT'S BIG!

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High-Speed Bullet Train in Japan
Train lovers around the world are jealous of Japan's high-speed trains. For example, the 1,528 miles Shinkansen railways network has trains that go up to 188 mph (300 kph).