A new digital tool takes the guesswork out of making compressed earth blocks for construction
An experienced soil analyst can discover clues about the dirt with little more than water, a jar and a...
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Interest: Habitat
Old Fused With New: Sustainable Architecture Where It Is Most Needed
Sustainability in architecture has manifested as buildings that process waste and cool themselves, and as a revival of old...
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Sustainable Building: Changing the Way We Look at Construction Materials
As the population heads toward 9 billion, pressure rises for more housing. Meeting the global demand, however, is more complex...
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Building Materials and Methods: E4C’s Essential Online Resources for Professionals
When global development professionals need to make a decision about which technologies to use in their work, we’d like...
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Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume...
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How the Internet of Things Is Improving Lives and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Wirelessly connected sensors, actuators and other hardware have already changed global development work, and signs point to bigger changes...
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Welcome to E4C’s Fellows
We are pleased to welcome 11 fellows into our new Research Fellowship program. To introduce our fellows, we asked...
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Five innovative materials for sustainable structural engineering
It is impossible to install pricey ENERGY STAR equipment and rooftop green gardens in every home in developing countries, but smaller...
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Earthship Biotecture’s Six Best Practices for Sustainable Architecture
Architects as far back as Vitruvius in the first century BC have tried to condense the best practices of...
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