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Design
The Tiny Transforming Apartment
As we've mentioned before, Hong Kong tenement apartments are often tiny. See how this architect rigged his space with sliding walls and hidden...
Design
Upcycled Houses Built from Old Shipping Containers, Plastic Bottles, and Trash
Around the world, people are junk into home-sweet-home. From old shipping containers to plastic bottles, these are some truly innovative upcycles.
Environment
GE Will Try to Reduce Energy Use by 70 Percent in a Few Test Cities
GE is beginning a new experiment in a handful of test cities to see if it can achieve dramatic reductions in home energy use. The program will...
Environment
GOOD Design Daily: How to Turn Empty Beer Cans into a Roof
Check out Bill Robb's step-by-step tutorial on how to repurpose aluminum cans as a roof for a chicken coop-upcycling at its best.
Business
IKEA Starts Selling Used Furniture
Next time you go to buy a bed MÖRRUM or a coffee table KLUBBO, you might be able to save some money and get a used one. On August 28, IKEA...
News
Another Way to Find Out How Many Homeless Are in Your Town
An interactive multi-year map of regional homeless populations shows you how many are on your streets and how that's changed since 2005.
Business
Another Bubble: Home Sizes
Ezra Klein's "Research Desk" pulls together some data on home sizes in the United States and abroad. American houses are larger than their...
Cities
Infographic: Should You Rent or Buy a Home?
It depends on where you live. In Phoenix? Maybe think about buying.
Design
Ads for Imaginary Buildings Highlight Lack of Real Development
Hypothetical Development places architectural renderings for imaginary, never-gonna-happen places on vacant, dilapidated buildings in New Orleans.
Environment
Shelter: You Can Still Build a House with Your Own Two Hands
Craftsmanship may be on the decline, but it's alive and well for home-builder Lloyd Khan, the subject of Jason Sussberg's new short documentary.
Environment
An Excellent Home Energy Efficiency Pyramid
The Minnesota Power utility gets credit for this informative graphic on the steps to home energy efficiency. The things at the bottom of the...
Design
Mini-Project: A Few of Your Dream Houses
For our mini-Project today, we asked GOOD readers to send in images of their dream houses. Here's a selection of what you sent in.
Cities
Does Planting More Trees Reduce Crime?
Areas with large trees in public spaces have lower crime rates, so will planting more trees in high crime areas make them safer?
Business
Is the Age of the McMansion Over?
McMansions, the over-sized, cookie-cutter houses that now mar our nation's suburbs, were the symbol of the housing boom. "Everyone can have a...
Business
Housing Prices Must Fall, Yet Housing Prices Must Not Fall
Tyler Cowen wonders what happens if we let housing prices fall as "many smart people say we should." Arguably many banks would once again be...
Environment
This Hyper-Efficient "Passive House" Needs No Furnace, Even in Frigid Vermont
It's possible to build a house that doesn't need any source of heat besides the sun and the warm bodies inside. Even in frigid Vermont.
Design
Is the Age of Flipping Houses Over?
A novel concept: Instead of designing homes for resale value, design them for people to live in. New York Times
Design
Mini-Project: Find Your Dream Home
For this weeks project, we're collecting images of GOOD readers' dream homes. What do you got?
