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	<title>Inhabitat New York City</title>
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		<title>5 Free Things to Do During Memorial Day Weekend in NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of 5 Free Things to Do During Memorial Day Weekend in NYC testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: Central Park Memorial Day Walking Tour, Future Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Bike Tour, governors island, governors island family festival, green events, green events nyc, Green-Wood Cemetery Memorial Day Concert, Memorial Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bellboy New York Upcycles a Park Avenue Water Tower into a Sexy Wooden Chair for 12 x 12</title>
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		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/bellboy-new-york-upcycles-a-park-avenue-water-tower-into-a-sexy-wooden-chair-for-12-x-12/</link>
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		<title>PHOTOS: We Go Gaga for the Great GoogaMooga’s Carnival-Inspired Green Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of PHOTOS: We Go Gaga for the Great GoogaMooga&#8217;s Carnival-Inspired Green Design testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: brooklyn events, david rockwell, eco art, eco design, googa mooga, googa mooga eco, googa mooga green, googamooga, green art, green design, green events, green food, jonathan mayers, local food, prospect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-ttage: MOD{all} Studio’s Green Redesign of Conover Cottages in Red Hook Nearing Completion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MOD{all} Studio recently sent us their green redesign of the Conover Cottages in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Called Eco-ttage, the sustainable facelift was the winning entry in a competition to give the iconic (but not very attractive) homes a much-needed overhaul, and is nearing completion of construction. Featuring several sustainable initiatives, Eco-ttage utilizes an existing cottage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Lim’s Round&amp;Round is a Circular Bench Made of Reclaimed NYC Wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of Louis Lim&#8217;s Round&#38;Round is a Circular Bench Made of Reclaimed NYC Wood testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: 12 x 12, 12x12, 12x12 design, eco design, green design, green design ny, green furniture, ICFF, international contemporary furniture fair, louis lim, new york design week, nyc design, salvaged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/louis-lims-roundround-is-a-circular-bench-made-of-reclaimed-nyc-wood/</link>
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		<title>The Swap-O-Matic in Brooklyn Is a Vending Machine That Lets You Trade Old Stuff for New Wares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turn all your unwanted clothes, gadgets and knick-knacks into cool new treasures with the Swap-O-Matic, a vending machine that allows users to swap and trade, rather than buy. Designed by New York City-based Lina Fenequito, the Swap-o-Matic was created as a fun way to get people to shift from unconscious over-consumers into more sustainably aware citizens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-swap-o-matic-in-brooklyn-is-a-vending-machine-that-lets-you-trade-old-stuff-for-new-wares/</link>
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		<title>Bees in Times Square: InterContinental Hotel Unveils New Rooftop Beehive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of Bees in Times Square: InterContinental Hotel Unveils New Rooftop Beehive testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: beehive ny, beekeeping, beekeeping in new york, bees in times square, eco design, environmental design, honey bees, Leed certified hotel, Manhattan bees, Manhattan rooftop garden, rooftop apiary, rooftop beehive, rooftop garden, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/bees-in-times-square-intercontinental-hotel-unveils-new-rooftop-beehive/</link>
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		<title>Columbia’s Manhattanville Campus is First LEED Platinum Neighborhood Plan in NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia University’s 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem just announced that it has achieved LEED Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s standards for neighborhood development. Located just north of Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus in what used to be an industrial neighborhood, the area bordered by 129th and 133rd Streets, Broadway and 12th Avenue, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/columbia%e2%80%99s-manhattanville-campus-is-first-leed-platinum-neighborhood-plan-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>How a White or Green Roof Can Keep Your Building Up to 84% Cooler This Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The benefits of white and green roofs are nothing new to us, but a recent study by two top NYC universities has shed light on just how effective these non-traditional roofs can be at lowering building temperatures. Non-reflective dark roofs are known to exacerbate the urban heat island effect and do absolutely nothing to reduce storm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/how-a-white-or-green-roof-can-keep-your-building-up-to-84-cooler-this-summer/</link>
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		<title>HWKN Creates a Green Hill on an NYC Rooftop for BMW MINI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of HWKN Creates a Green Hill on an NYC Rooftop for BMW MINI testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: bmw event space, bmw mini, eco design, green design, green roof, green roof nyc, green roofs, green roofs in ny, greenroof, hwkn, hwkn green roof, mini cooper, mini rooftop, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York-New Jersey Spectra Pipeline Gets the Green Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spectra Pipeline, which will bring natural gas to new areas around New York and New Jersey, has been given the green light. Also called the NJ-NY Expansion Project, it was finally approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and received with a mixed response.  The pipeline was approved as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-new-york-and-new-jersey-spectra-pipeline-gets-the-green-light/</link>
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		<title>The UrBarn: Just Food Serves Up Sustainable Eats at the Great GoogaMooga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of The UrBarn: Just Food Serves Up Sustainable Eats at the Great GoogaMooga testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: brooklyn events, eco design, environmental sustainability, fresh food, googa mooga, googamooga, GoogaMooga Festival, green art, green design, green events, Hall &#38; Oates, Just Food, local food, local food nyc, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verdant PicNYC Table is Topped with Living Growing Grass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of Verdant PicNYC Table is Topped with Living Growing Grass testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: grass furniture, grass table, green design, green furniture, green interiors, haiko cornelissen architecten, living furniture, new york design week, ny design week 2012, picNYC table, planter table, sustainable design, sustainable furniture, voos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12×12 Designers Transform Reclaimed NYC Lumber Into Fresh Modern Furnishings – PHOTOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of 12&#215;12 Designers Transform Reclaimed NYC Lumber Into Fresh Modern Furnishings &#8211; PHOTOS testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: 12x12: Twelve Designers Transform Reclaimed NYC Lumber Into Fresh Modern Designs]]></description>
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		<title>Justin Gingras Transforms NYC Trash into Art with his Garbage Cubes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of Justin Gingras Transforms NYC Trash into Art with his Garbage Cubes testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: eco design, environmental art, green design, Justin Gignac, recycle art, sustainable design, trash art]]></description>
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		<title>One World Trade Center is Now the Tallest Building in NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited One World Trade Center set a record today, becoming the tallest building in New York. The in-progress tower surpassed New York City&#8217;s current highest building, the Empire State Building, which soars to 1,250 feet. The original Twin Towers held the title of NYC&#8217;s tallest buildings until they were destroyed in the September 11 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/one-world-trade-center-is-now-the-tallest-building-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>MTA Finds Nixing Trash Cans from Subway Stations Ironically Reduces Garbage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, the MTA started a somewhat counter-intuitive pilot program to help reduce trash in the subways &#8211; they removed the trash cans. The bins were taken out of two test subway stations, and surprisingly, it worked. The program was so successful that New York City Transit President Tom Prendergast plans to expand the program- and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/mta-finds-nixing-trash-cans-from-subway-stations-ironically-reduces-garbage/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews the Designers of the Low Line Underground Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we first heard about the underground New York City park called the Low Line last year, it was not much more than a brilliant idea and some provocative CAD renderings. Now fast-forward eight months and this ambitious project has really gathered steam, and is well on its way to becoming more than a pipe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/video-interview-inhabitat-interviews-the-designers-of-new-york-citys-low-line-underground-park/</link>
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		<title>MoMA Wants Your Old Junk For Their New Meta-Monumental Garage Sale Exhibit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[©Colros If you haven’t gotten around to getting that garage sale together to sell your old junk, it could end up as part of something even greater &#8211;  MoMA’s next art exhibition! The museum has put out a plea for people’s old stuff, specifically “strange items” that of course don’t include weapons, liquids or hazardous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/moma-wants-your-old-junk-for-their-new-meta-monumental-garage-sale-exhibit/</link>
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		<title>Takeshi Miyakawa Arrested After His Light Installations Are Mistaken For Bombs During NYDW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Designers across the city have been attracting furniture and art-lovers with their work during New York Design Week, but a series of sculptural installations by Takeshi Miyakawa caught some rather unwanted attention &#8211; the NYPD&#8217;s. The I LOVE NY shopping bag-shaped sculptures caused a real stir over the weekend when they were mistaken for bombs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/takeshi-miyakawa-arrested-after-his-light-installations-are-mistaken-for-bombs-during-icff/</link>
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		<title>Mayor Bloomberg Encourages Green Building by Lifting Zoning Laws for Rooftop Sunshades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bloomberg has been on a roll supporting green design lately and last week, he announced a new bill that would allow buildings to construct sun-control devices on their roofs with no zoning issues. The devices can add up to two and a half feet to a building’s height without worry of violating the current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/mayor-bloomberg-encourages-green-building-by-lifting-zoning-laws-for-rooftop-sunshades/</link>
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		<title>Design Brigade Unveil Table Made from Reclaimed Coney Island Boardwalk Planks at 12×12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Design Brigade is the team behind this beautiful &#8216;Low Table&#8217; &#8211; a gorgeous piece of furniture handcrafted from reclaimed sections of the Coney Island Boardwalk. The creative duo &#8211; Lila Baghzouz and Patrick Delorey &#8211; constructed the item to highlight the weathered planks of ipe wood, and they employed an assortment of wood lengths to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/design-brigade-unveil-table-made-from-reclaimed-coney-island-boardwalk-planks-at-12x12/</link>
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		<title>Farmacy: Edible Vertical Farms Come to Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of Farmacy: Edible Vertical Farms Come to Long Island City&#8217;s Socrates Sculpture Park testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: AgBags, eco design, george trakas, green design, Long Island City, Mary miss, Natalie Jeremijenko, Rikrit Tiravanija, Socrates Sculpture Park, sustainable design, urban farming, vertical farm, xDesign Environmental Health Clinic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/farmacy-edible-vertical-farms-come-to-long-island-citys-socrates-sculpture-park/</link>
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		<title>PHOTOS: Tomas Saraceno’s Geodesic ‘Cloud City’ Floats Above the Roof of the Met Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the rest of PHOTOS: Tomas Saraceno&#8217;s Geodesic &#8216;Cloud City&#8217; Floats Above the Roof of the Met Museum testing Permalink &#124; Add to del.icio.us &#124; digg Post tags: Cantor Roof Garden, Cloud City, floating architecture, futuristic architecture, geodesic architecture, met museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ny architecture, space architecture, summer at the met, temporary architecture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Join Together to Plant Heirloom Apple Orchard at Queens College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine being a student at New York City’s Queens College, and being able to pick a ripe, organic apple right off the tree on your way to your morning biology class. Nice, right? This past Arbor Day (in New York State, it’s the last Friday in April), a dozen student volunteers planted a whole orchard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inhabitat.com/nyc/students-join-together-to-plant-heirloom-apple-orchard-at-queens-college/</link>
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