Maybe my favorite breakfast tea (go pyramid-shaped bag!) is seeping into the part of my brain that chooses interesting articles to share on GreenBase, or maybe there is just a lot happening in London right now, but here is an interesting article from Treehugger on a new affordable housing plan set to put down roots in London:

LONDON'S WIND-POWERED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
What a pleasure to show a green residential project that is not an expensive condo in New York or Dubai. Instead it is a sixty-six unit building of affordable apartments in ratty Ramsgate Street in Dalston, London, designed by Waugh Thistleton. It is an airfoil shape to concentrate the greatest wind speed to the spline of the building, where four vertical axis turbines are mounted and will generate 15% of the buildings load, saving seven
tonnes of CO2 each year.

Dezeen says "The tower is a bold design statement, introducing a new aesthetic to the
area. It goes beyond being environmentally accountable and providing the community with
much-needed facilities, to a building that both projects and epitomises the area's aspirations and potential." ::more ::Dezeen