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Trees for a desert and fish for a sea: Repairs from Oaxaca to Abu Dhabi

Our report this week features the alchemy of university-level experiments with algae in Turkey. And elsewhere in the world, including in Cleveland, Ohio, a rejection of the quickest and easiest path is producing results.   

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Two recent projects in Cleveland – a MetroHealth hospital campus and the headquarters of manufacturing consultancy Magnet – illustrate the importance of “deconstruction,” or the careful dismantling of a building to reuse materials. The city’s focus on a circular economy, along with considering the use of materials from “cradle

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