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  2. Team Trees - Wikipedia

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    Team Trees (stylized as #TEAMTREES) is a collaborative fundraiser that raised 20 million U.S. dollars before the start of 2020 to plant 20 million trees. The initiative was started by American YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober , and was mostly supported by YouTubers. [ 1 ]

  3. Ecohouse - Wikipedia

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    Planting trees and creating windbreaks on the north and east sides of the site can enhanced the solar gain effect by protecting the house from the cold north easterly winds. Having faced the house towards the Sun, high performance windows are used to draw in as much light and warmth as possible.

  4. Tree house - Wikipedia

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    A tree house in the park of the Château de Langeais in the Loire Valley, France. A tree house, tree fort or treeshed, is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level. Tree houses can be used for recreation, work space, habitation, a hangout space and ...

  5. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    To build then, an House of thirty foot long and eighteen foot broad, with a partition near the middle, and an other to divide one end of the House into two small rooms, there must be eight Trees about sixteen Inches square, and cut off, to Posts of about fifteen foot long, which the House must stand upon, and four pieces, two of thirty foot ...

  6. After Helene landslides, some parts of North Carolina not ...

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    The hill their house had stood on for 30 years was cut away by the power of the storm. The land washed down the river. Their house was crushed against the trees and rocks, landing far downhill ...

  7. Bamboo construction - Wikipedia

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    House made entirely of bamboo. Bamboo construction involves the use of bamboo as a building material for scaffolding, bridges, houses and buildings.Bamboo, like wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures. [1]

  8. Stilts (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    In the Avieiras stilt houses along the Tagus River in Portugal, canes growing by the riverbank and trunks of large trees were used as stilts to support the homes of local fisherman. [10] Over time, concrete slabs have been added to support the wood and extend the pillars foundation into the ground, making buildings more stable in the case of ...

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