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Leapfrogging in Reverse

Posted on September 03, 2008

We've often written about the concept of leapfrogging to describe what happens when a non-industrialized country surpasses old, harmful technologies or systems (now causing industrialized nations problems) to get to new sustainable innovations and devices. But in his article, Leapfrogging in Reverse, Jef Faludi explores some examples of how and where this is happening the other way around: Green architects in the last twenty years have learned passive-solar design tricks from pre-industrial buildings, both historic ones in their own countries and contemporary buildings in non-industrial soci...

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