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The Rise of the Sustainable Home 2012

<h4><em>Blue & Green Tomorrow</em> discovers what the past can teach us about the future.</h4> <p>Sustainable homes: science fiction or application of good ol’ common sense? In <em>The Rise of the Sustainable Home</em> Charlotte Reid looks back in time to discover what the past can teach us about the future (perhaps, forward to the past rather than back to the future?).</p>

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Blue & Green Tomorrow discovers what the past can teach us about the future.

Sustainable homes: science fiction or application of good ol’ common sense? In The Rise of the Sustainable Home Charlotte Reid looks back in time to discover what the past can teach us about the future (perhaps, forward to the past rather than back to the future?).

There are several clear sustainable links and a sense that, if we repeat history in just the right way with a modern twist, we can all live more sustainably. That is to say, living without costing the earth.

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