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3.) American jeans pioneer Levi Strauss & Co. is offering $10,000 for the design of a zero-electricity clothes dryer.
4.) This high-tech solar home from Stuttgart University is covered in photovoltaic panels.
5.) Nine of the world’s “most promising” carbon-neutral communities.
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Andrew Nusca is editor of SmartPlanet and an associate editor for ZDNet. Previously, he worked at Money, Men's Vogue and Popular Mechanics magazines. He holds degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and New York University. He based in New York but resides in Philadelphia.
