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The Hexayurt Project is looking to house more people more efficiently. This simple housing design maybe able to help the world’s poor.
The Hexayurt is a prize-winning shelter you can build yourself for about $200 (cache). Suitable raw materials include common building materials (insulation boards,) hexacomb cardboard and plastic. You cut six 4′ x 8′ panels [...]

I ride my bicycle everyday and I hope you do too! Bikes are great, so whenever bicycle riding culture is encouraged by governments I like to post about it.
Here’s a neat video on how the city of Berkley in California calmed car traffic and made their city more friendly to cyclists and pedestrians: