There's been a lot said about Turkey's wholesale blocking of wordpress.com, because of a few possibly libelous blogs hosted there. It doesn't interest me much, because unless the state-owned ISP and firewall is dismantled, there's not going to be free speech anytime ...
Inhabitat links to a report that says sustainable architecture isn't much more expensive.
But In Picenum says sustainable office buildings don't perform that much better.
This post is purely anecdotal. I seriously doubt that spending enough money would solve the problem ...
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