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Steel Buildings-Building on the Rock
Metropolis Opinion | October 1st 2008 by yohanes kerans
I don’t imagine if Norsteel Building, Canada; leading provider any Steel Buildings for any storage is available in worldwide and accept order from worldwide nations. I think many people will try to order and customize their prefabricated buildi read more
Crashing Urban Wind Legends
Powrtalk | October 1st 2008 by Andy Bochman
Downtown. Great venturi winds are at work in the wild downtown canyons, and great updrafts are pushing over the tops of buildings. All the time. But you can't use a wind turbine to get electrical power out of these venturis... read more
San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences Reopens In Green
Mode Green | September 29th 2008 by Kelley B
This past weekend marked the long-awaited grand reopening of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. It houses an aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum and educational programs under one roof.But the star attraction is the buildi read more
Nursing Home Going Green In Boston
Mode Green | September 29th 2008 by Kelley B
A Chelsea nonprofit is helping blaze the trail for an alternative type of nursing care through a new $30 million facility it is erecting on Admiral's Hill.The 100-bed Leonard Florence Center for Living, a project of the Chelsea Jewish Foundation, wil read more
World Future Energy Summit 2009 in Abu Dhabi
INSPIRING NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD | September 28th 2008 by kedarvideo
In April 2006, Abu Dhabi took a bold and historic decision to embrace renewable and sustainable energy technologies. As the first major hydrocarbonproducing nation to take such a step, it has established its leadership position by launching Masdar, a read more
The Ultimate Green Houses
Westchester Green | September 27th 2008 by Mark R. LePage, AIA
Top Treehouses of the World (Thanks for the link John) read more
Chicago Gets First Green Jewel-Osco Grocery
Ecolocalizer | September 26th 2008 by Lucille Chi
The Jewel-Osco grocery chain opens its first green store today in Chicago’s River West neighborhood. The new store features not only green construction but some green items inside as well, including locally produced foods and organic selections read more
NYC Awards Greenest Building Designs
nycBLOGestate | September 25th 2008 by Mitchell Hall
NY1 reported the winners of the city's green building competition yesterday. The grand prize went to The Visionaire and the Battery Park City Conservancy's maintenance facility. The two projects were designed to coexist in a single structure with a g read more
The Greening of the Office Lease
Sustainable Products | September 23rd 2008 by Marianne Richmond
Ellen Sinreich, President Green Edge, LLC reporting In order for a commercial office building to achieve the most in terms of sustainability, the landlord and its tenants must partner in working toward that goal. In the case of the landlord... read more
How Green Is Your City? SustainLane’s 2008 Sustainable City Ran…
Sustainablog | September 22nd 2008
As the world continues to be shaken up by horror stories on Wall Street, it might be worth taking a few steps back to consider your immediate quality of life. SustainLane, a San Francisco based green media company has just announced its brand new U. read more
How Green Is Your City? SustainLane’s 2008 Sustainable City Ran…
Ecolocalizer | September 22nd 2008 by Lucille Chi
As the world continues to be shaken up by horror stories on Wall Street, it might be worth taking a few steps back to consider your immediate quality of life. SustainLane, a San Francisco based green media company has just announced its brand new U. read more
8:00 p.m. EST January 21, 2009, Dawn of the New Energy Order
Powrtalk | September 20th 2008 by Andy Bochman
Here's a little speech we worked up for the next President to deliver at 8 p.m. eastern standard time on his first day in office. Say something good and we'll tuck it into the final draft which publishes before the... read more
New Orleans Green Home Stands up to Gustav, Ike
Ecolocalizer | September 19th 2008 by Lucille Chi
Here’s a rare but welcome thing: good news from post-Katrina New Orleans. Global Green USA’s first ultra-green home in the Holy Cross neighborhood stood strong during hurricanes Gustav and Ike, both of which caused massive damage in parts read more
Unanimously Approved Consensus Green Building Investment Underwri…
Sustainable Products | September 8th 2008 by Marianne Richmond
Dan Winters , Evolution Partners reporting... . Members from the Capital Markets Partnership, overwhelmingly cast affirmative votes in support of the the Green Building Underwriting Standards. These Standards were approved in four months which is rec read more
From Industrial Site to Trendy Eco-Lofts Near Boston
Mode Green | September 8th 2008 by Kelley B
Green housing doesn't have to mean having a green roof or wall, or living in an enchanting hobbit house. Green or eco-living can mean reusing an old building with features such as wind power, building methods that reduce the need for air-conditionin read more
Hair on Fire
Powrtalk | September 6th 2008 by Andy Bochman
At first they were dots to be connected, the dream-vision dots of a sustainable, self-sufficient energy platform for America. The dots are connecting. The dots were there in, say 2004, but the lines between them were not. The lines are... read more
Is Some Green Architecture "Bad News"?
Mode Green | September 6th 2008 by Kelley B
Cathleen McGuigan reports: I hate green architecture. I can't stand the hype, the marketing claims, the smug lists of green features that supposedly transform a garden-variety new building into a structure fit for Eden. Grassy roofs? Swell! Recycled read more
Sunnyvale, CA Now Has More Stringent Green Building Standards
Mode Green | September 5th 2008 by Kelley B
Cody Kraatz reports: Sunnyvale will start rolling out a beefed-up citywide green building program in 2009, with more rigorous green building requirements and incentives to be phased in each year until 2012.While many of the details remain to be work read more
Deconstruction: A More Natural Way to Demolition
aboutMyPlanet.com | September 1st 2008 by Bart Dabek
The old must give way to the new, so goes an old maxim. But in the world of environmental conservancy giving away the old often burdens the earth with trash and landfills. It is no different for the construction industry. The construction industry th read more
If You Can't Have A Green Hobbit House You Can Have A Green Wall
Mode Green | August 29th 2008 by Kelley B
Philip S. Wenz reports: The design possibilities for living walls are endless. Local climate, available sunlight and water, the wall's location on your property, its purpose and your preferred plants are all design factors. At one extreme, imagine a read more
Emory Becomes Green Campus
Mode Green | August 25th 2008 by Kelley B
Nina Dutton reports: Emory has moved two more steps forward on its path to becoming a sustainable campus with its new residence halls, Evans and Few, which mark the completion of the second phase of the freshman housing quadrangle. In July, Emory was read more
A New Green City for China, Interview Part I
Clean Air Through Green Roofs | August 20th 2008 by William Gorman
As I have written in two previous articles (here and here), Dongtan is going to be "...a city powered by local, renewable energy, with super-efficient buildings clustered in dense, walkable neighborhoods; a recycling scheme that re-purposes 90 percen read more
A Guide to Green Roofs
CleanBeta | August 16th 2008 by William Pentland
ShareThis The Search for Sustainable Technologies read more
Cyber Park IT Hub: Eco-Friendly Facade to set new green standards…
Grendiary | August 12th 2008
India is proving to be an irresistible hot hub for most entrepreneurs and corporate firms as it has both the cheap man power to deliver products and a very large and growing market whose buying power seems to be generally on the rise. This implies th read more
Green, From the Inside Out: The Benefits of Indoor Plants For Yo…
Eco-Coach: Green Your Life at Home, Work & Play | August 9th 2008 by Anca
Research has shown that indoor air pollution is the cause of many of our common and even more serious ailments; from headaches, fatigue, and toxic and allergic reactions, to asthma, infections, and “sick building syndrome”, etc. Research has also read more
LEED: Between the Stricture of Government and the Wild, Unfettere…
Powrtalk | August 2nd 2008 by Andy Bochman
This morning I ran by a newly minted Champion garbage truck with this on its side: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Odd, because at first blush these words don't make for boosting the revenue of a trash hauler. Reduce consumption of stuff... read more
BIM-Wiki Carbon Neutral Second Life Forms
Powrtalk | August 1st 2008 by Andy Bochman
Is this gibberish? Can this title possibly mean something? Yes, yes it can. It does, and it portends something of importance. Listen. Ulrike Schultze, a business professor at Southern Methodist University, showed me around SMU's place on Second Life, read more
Mexico's First LEED Gold has a Green Roof!
Clean Air Through Green Roofs | August 1st 2008 by William Gorman
The first building in Latin America to be LEED Gold Certified is the HSBC building in Mexico City. This is quite a point of pride for Mexico, as the building is the first in Latin America, and it is also good for the people of the city. Green roofs read more
Beijing is Trying to Control Pollution with Green Buildings
Clean Air Through Green Roofs | August 1st 2008 by William Gorman
In a previous post titled, "Bejiing Worst Smog in a Month - Green Roofs Can Help!" I wrote how the Chinese government is concerned that the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be spoiled by air pollution.That concern is becoming a reality, with the government read more
Mid-Week Tidbits
The Dirt Lawyer's Blog | July 23rd 2008 by David Stejkowski
Things have been crazy, so I've been remiss in not posting daily. I'll try to improve that. A few items from other blogs caught my eye this morning.One is the passage of a green building code in California, voluntary until 2010 and mandatory therea read more
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