The Future Of High-tech Housing

Popular Science Magazine features a Swedish housing complex that is ecologically sound and wired.

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May 7, 2003, 2:00 PM PDT

"Tango, a green-and-wired 27-unit complex that decontaminates its own soil, recycles its water into a rebuilt marsh ecology, generates power from renewable sources, uses roof space to put oxygen back into the environment and, through sensors and broadband Web access, allows owners to re-motely monitor and control everything from energy use to electronic key access."

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FULL STORY: It Takes Tech To Tango

Thursday, May 15, 2003 in Popular Science

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