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Eat, drink, and be present: Restaurants and bars are starting to embrace cell phone bans

Eat, drink, and be present: Restaurants and bars are starting to embrace cell phone bans

Fast Company — A new trend in dining has one rule for customers: Don't you dare look at your phone.
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This New California Community Asks Homeowners to Sign a Pledge of Kindness

This New California Community Asks Homeowners to Sign a Pledge of Kindness

Dwell Magazine — At Silverwood in Southern California, homeowners sign a pledge of kindness to buy in. But can a written agreement really bring people together?
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Why Disney Is Building Affordable Housing

Why Disney Is Building Affordable Housing

Dwell Magazine — The entertainment behemoth is set to break ground on a 1,400-unit mixed-income development near Orlando, Florida.
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America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?

America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?

Dwell Magazine — Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.
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The ADU Boom Has Begun. Is It Adding the Housing We Need?

The ADU Boom Has Begun. Is It Adding the Housing We Need?

Dwell Magazine — Experts say affordable housing must come in many forms. But early signs show backyard homes-a win for landowners and renters alike-could be a crucial one.
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This new Phoenix development could be a model for extremely affordable senior housing

This new Phoenix development could be a model for extremely affordable senior housing

Fast Company — Made of repurposed shipping containers and completely off the grid, it's an effort to provide fast, affordable housing to formerly homeless seniors.
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An old median near a Los Angeles freeway sat empty for years. Now it's affordable housing

An old median near a Los Angeles freeway sat empty for years. Now it's affordable housing

Fast Company — It's one example of how cities are grappling with surging housing insecurity and homelessness: by using government-owned sites to develop affordable housing.
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Erick Mikiten Has a Vision for the House You'll Grow Old In

Erick Mikiten Has a Vision for the House You'll Grow Old In

Dwell Magazine — The architect and universal design expert transformed a wheelchair user's Berkeley home with an inconspicuous elevator. But he believes there are many ways to approach aging in place.
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The Founder of Patagonia Just Built a Straw Bale House. He Thinks You Should, Too

The Founder of Patagonia Just Built a Straw Bale House. He Thinks You Should, Too

Dwell Magazine — Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change.
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Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge Prioritizes Environmental Justice

Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge Prioritizes Environmental Justice

Earth Island Journal — As the nation's first urban wildlife refuge that centers community and environmental justice, Valle de Oro may serve as model for more to come.
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Can a 3D-Printed Hotel and Residences Bring a New Dimension to Marfa?

Can a 3D-Printed Hotel and Residences Bring a New Dimension to Marfa?

Dwell Magazine — Hotelier Liz Lambert has teamed up with Austin-based home builders Icon and architect Bjarke Ingels on a promise to transform the West Texas art town-with affordable housing to boot.
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The Electric Kitchen Has Always Been Inevitable

The Electric Kitchen Has Always Been Inevitable

Dwell Magazine — A firestorm of recent news is putting the spotlight on gas stoves and their harmful effects, but induction cooking has been heating up for years.
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The Legal Clash Over a City's Landmark Natural Gas Ban

The Legal Clash Over a City's Landmark Natural Gas Ban

Route Fifty — Since Berkeley, California prohibited gas connections to most new buildings, dozens of cities have followed suit with similar policies. Now, a federal appeals court will decide whether the local statute is allowed under federal law.
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'Cool' roofs, cooler designs as the building industry embraces energy sustainability

'Cool' roofs, cooler designs as the building industry embraces energy sustainability

The Washington Post — The southwestern New Mexico town of Columbus, site of a 1916 raid by Pancho Villa, is now home to a border entry center that is powered by the sun and landscaped with recycled concrete "sponges" that harvest rainwater.
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Backcrossing to the Future

Backcrossing to the Future

Earth Island Journal — In New Mexico's Gila National Forest, biologists use genetic intervention to save imperiled trout. In the summer of 2018, a pair of fish biologists and a pair of horse packers embarked on an arduous 13-hour trek through a remote section of the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico, not far from the Arizona border.
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Counting Sheep

Counting Sheep

Earth Island Journal — "These animals were on the brink of extinction and are now a viable presence in the ecosystem," Rominger says. Now, these bighorn sheep are helping biologists with another major conservation milestone.
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Turning a Route 66 Motel Into a Community Pillar

Turning a Route 66 Motel Into a Community Pillar

CityLab — In the mid-1970s, long before they were household names, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent four years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, trying in vain to solicit venture capital for their computer start-up.
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A Priceless Archive of American Architecture Publishing

A Priceless Archive of American Architecture Publishing

Bloomberg News — In 1954, Eduardo Catalano designed perhaps the most stunning example of Modernist architecture in the state of North Carolina, the hyperbolic paraboloid wonder known as the Catalano House. It was a work that appeared more like origami than architecture.
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Bill Tonnesen Doesn't Want This Exhibit to Become a 'Selfie Factory'

Bill Tonnesen Doesn't Want This Exhibit to Become a 'Selfie Factory'

CityLab — Illuminated by floor-recessed lighting, the bottom half of a 1,500 square-foot subterranean room is suffused in pink, slow-curling fog. By one wall is a life-sized plaster-cast statue of a bare-chested woman, head concealed in cloth, holding a naked infant upside-down. A gaunt female model with an alabaster face saunters languidly through the space, like a mutewitness to some macabre ritual.
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Wave-Powered Water Pumps Could Become a New Source of Clean Energy

Wave-Powered Water Pumps Could Become a New Source of Clean Energy

Popular Mechanics — It's September, and a small group of researchers in a pair of fishing vessels are sailing in some of the highest ice-free waves in the North Atlantic. Here, some 1,600 feet off the coast of Newfoundland, they are anchoring a 10-foot-wide (three-meter) buoy.
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Is New Mexico's Massive New Housing Development Primed for Failure?

Is New Mexico's Massive New Housing Development Primed for Failure?

Pacific Standard — About 10 miles southwest of downtown Albuquerque, a scrawny coyote prowls among the sagebrush and desert scrub on an open mesa overlooking New Mexico's largest city, which has a population of 550,000. This is the site of a proposed 14,000-acre master-planned development called Santolina, projected to house more than 95,000 people in some 38,000 homes over several decades.
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Happy 50th, Endangered Species. And Many More?

Happy 50th, Endangered Species. And Many More?

Pacific Standard — Fifty years ago, the first species to gain federal protection as endangered were listed in the Federal Register. Now, despite much progress in the decades since, they may be in more trouble than ever before.
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The Scroll Story

The Scroll Story

NM Journey —
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Staking Out Survival for Sonoran Pronghorns

Staking Out Survival for Sonoran Pronghorns

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