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A daily round up of green news

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FootprintWire 22.05.13

Today’s green news: Sustainable Australian garden wins top prize at the Chelsea Flower Show

John Hopkins

FootprintWire 21.05.13

Today’s green news: ‘The Global Garden Initiative’ set up to carry on the work of landscape architect John Hopkins

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FootprintWire 20.05.13

Today’s green news: Historic Swiss farm house retrofiitted to meet low energy standard

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FootprintWire 17.05.13

Today’s green news: Skyscraper proposal has wind turbines embedded in its facade

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FootprintWire 16.05.13

Today’s green news: Dutch city develops a strategy for delivering sustainable self build homes

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FootprintWire 15.05.13

Today’s green news: Floating wind-current turbine unveiled in Japan

Thurrock Thameside nature reserve

FootprintWire 14.05.13

Today’s green news: Essex landfill site transformed into nature reserve opens

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FootprintWire 13.05.13

Today’s green news: Solar-powered refrigerator to reduce food waste in the developing world

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FootprintWire 10.05.13

Today’s green news: West 8 designs sustainable masterplan for Chinese ‘Flower City’

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FootprintWire 09.05.13

Today’s green news: Floating ocean lab designed in collaboration between an architect, oceanographer and an astronaut due to launch this year

Mark Siddall Passivhaus

North East Passivhaus completes

LEAP has completed this Passivhaus in the North Pennine Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Retrofit Awards deadline extended to 31 May

The deadline for the AJ’s annual Retrofit Awards, championing the best in the creative re-use of buildings and construction, has been extended

Green books

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Reader offer: May 2013

Win a copy of Huw Heywood’s 101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture

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Footprint's 5 things to do this week

This week’s events include Clerkenwell design week and a seminar on the performance gap

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