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Measuring green footprints: computer-based energy analysis programs drive sustainable design.(Architecture)

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In New Orleans, pink has become the new green, and Brad Pitt has something to do with it.

As night fell on December 3, 2007, approximately 430 gigantic glowing cubes, lit from within and swaddled in bright pink sheets, appeared along the Lower Ninth Ward. Scattered along the Industrial Canal's shoulder, the cubes resembled plastic pieces on a Monopoly game board. Yet, these are quite literally the building blocks for post-Katrina reconstruction. They represent an equal number of building modules, which, when assembled and installed, will become 150 two-bedroom, single-family homes, each equipped with sustainable components from roof to lower floor. Pitt, the star ...

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