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German town goes solar, buys local energy plant

November 10, 2012

After Chernobyl, the German town of Schönau didn’t want to get its energy from nuclear power. So its citizens turned the town into an energy producer via solar panels and other green carbon neutral sources.

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Converted churches, Part 2: Belgium, England, Australia

May 15, 2009

Converted churches, Part 2: Belgium, England, Australia

Here are three converted churches which seem much more successful than most of the examples in the last post. Above is a 19th century chapel in the Flemish village of Bazel which has been converted into 2 loft-type houses.

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So you think you’d like to live in a church…

March 26, 2009

So you think you’d like to live in a church…

When I was a kid my parents had Arlo Guthrie’s record Alice’s Restaurant , a spoken folk song plus narrative set in a converted church in Massachusetts in the sixties, and I knew the full monologue off by heart.

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