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Parsons Green Supply Center Presents Earth Week 2013 Design Competition

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Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality Features Parsons Executive Dean Joel Towers

Parsons Executive Dean, Joel Towers, lends his expertise about green building and climate adaptation to Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality, an online broadcast from around the world in 24 hours. Tune in at 1pm, November 15 http://climaterealityproject.org/

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Empowerhouse Collaborative: How a State-of-the-Art Energy-Efficient Home Can Be a Model for Affordable Housing

The U.S. Department of Energy sponsors the biannual Solar Decathlon in which school teams compete to build state-of-the-art solar-powered houses. In Oct. 2011, The Empowerhouse, won first place in the Affordability Category in the competition held on the National Mall in Washington, DC. In this special guest post, members of the Empowerhouse Collaborative, share the [...]

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Big Win for Empowerhouse in Solar Decathlon Competition

Congratulations to the Empowerhouse team for recently taking top honors in the Affordability Category in the 2011 Solar Decathlon, a biennial international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The competition brought together an interdisciplinary dream team of students and faculty from Parsons The New School for Design, Milano School of International Affairs, Management [...]

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Oct. 26, 2011: Lecture on Award-Winning Public Park in Cairo

The Design and Urban Practice Colloquium, a public lecture series on alternative and innovative forms of design and urban practice, invites you to: Al-Azhar Park and Neighborhood Design, Cairo, Egypt [Winner of Global Vision Innovation Award, Named of World's 60 Greatest Public Places] by Maher Stino and Laila ElMasry Stino, Partners, Sites International Wednesday, October [...]

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