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Bangalore may be India's high-tech heart, but in one part of its leafy suburbs, there's a group of environmentalists trying to get back to the garden. In 2003, husband-and-wife architects Jeeth and Natasha Iype, working with Stanley George, a civil engineer, designed the Good Earth Orchard homes. Each of the 60 projected houses, now in various stages of construction, will feature slate and wood left in a natural state, without toxic waxes and finishes. Sewage will be treated in tanks that process waste without harmful chemicals. Household water will be heated by solar panels, which...
Most Indians still live with several generations in a single home. But as the country grows richer, a burgeoning middle class is moving into Western-style single-family homes, which use more energy and resources per family. The Good Earth team is trying to provide India's élite with green homes that meet their rising standards but provide space that is still in some ways shared. "Communities make sense in India, given our history of joint-family living," says Natasha. "We are simply trying to re-create what...
...book is extremely relevant to everyone’s personal life: Hofstadter is leading an investigation of the elusive nature of subjective experience.Hofstadter has a gift for articulating the complex with wit, clarity, and accessibility. When he includes a relevant excerpt from the work of a less down-to-earth academic, one realizes that any other writing seems like a textbook compared to Hofstadter’s fluid, everyday prose. “I Am a Strange Loop” feels like the kind of intellectually thrilling late-night dorm room conversations which don’t happen nearly...
...Cherokee Nation is a sovereign nation and its people have the right to define its citizenry just as every other nation on earth. On March 3, the Cherokee people voted to include everyone as citizens, regardless of their race, with one stipulation—they must link to an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls...
...Democrat who lost a presidential election to George W. Bush writes a book about the environment, and his name doesn’t end in “Gore,” we all have the right to be suspicious.But fears that “This Moment on Earth,” the new book by Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will be a carbon copy of “An Inconvenient Truth” and its ilk prove to be unfounded. The book is quite different from that famed multimedia presentation of Al Gore...