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Solar roof tiles could power your home
A roof tile that harnesses solar energy to heat water and generate electricity, has been invented by an Australian industrial designer.
House in England
Most people in England live in urban areas. Towns and cities are spreading into their surrounding environment to cope with the increase populations. In England, an average of 7,000 hectares of farmland, countryside and green space were converted to urban use every year between 1985 and 1998. This is almost the equivalent size of 9,600 international football pitches.
The beautiful nest
A young New Hampshire designer feathers her first nest by combining yard sale finds, family artwork, and a few pieces dragged home from the dump.
Oxford city - The city of dreaming spires
Oxford is known as The city of dreaming spires - a term coined by Matthew Arnold in reference to the harmonious architecture of the university buildings. Oxford is famous the world over for its University and place in history. It is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
In Wales, a family retreat
Nantyfarddu, a Welsh farmstead, is Tim and Judith Sear’s second home now, but for years it was their first, and only, real home — the place where the British-born couple and their children retreated periodically as Mr. Sear’s career moved them around Asia in the 1960s and ’70s.