Sweden
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Sustainability, Scandinavian Style
A tradition of high-performance neighborhoods, not just high-performance houses
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Växjö, Sweden, is a Model of Sustainability
Having embraced the U.N’s Agenda 21, this energy-efficient city generates electricity with wind turbines and generators fired by wood chips
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An Architect’s Take on Sweden’s Factory-Built Houses
In his blog posts about home construction in that country, Gregory La Vardera zeros in on the details, including a look at wall construction of a factory home and the fates of prefab housing there and in the U.S.
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Combined Heat and Power in Sweden
Last week I described some observations about transportation from a trip I took to Sweden two years ago. While there, I toured two state-of-the-art, wood-chip-fired, combined heat and power (CHP)…
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Getting Around in Sweden
I had the great fortune two years ago to spend a couple weeks in Sweden. In late December 2007 I was visiting my daughter, who was studying at Lund University.…
