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A Low Impact Woodland Home (www.simondale.net)Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.
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New Treehouses of the World | Homes Slideshow | Green Living (greenlivingonline.com)Living in a treehouse is hardly child’s play; it has become a trendy and ecologically advanced accommodation option of the future
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Science & Environment Articles | Changing the Black Top to Green (www.miller-mccune.com)The asphalt jungle is due for a makeover as tar beach becomes a sanctuary for native plants, wildflowers and winged pollinators. Like mushrooms after a spring rain, "green roofs" are proliferating on rooftops across the United States and throughout Europe
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New designs touted as reducing energy costs and pollution (www.metrowestdailynews.com)Carpets and rugs just block heat from energy-efficient radiant floors, so design consultant William Churchill decided to simply polish the concrete lining his multistory sustainable home rising from the banks of the Sudbury.
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City wants amphitheatre roof (www.thesudburystar.com)City council gave an approving nod to the conceptual design of the proposed new $5 million Grace Hartman Amphitheatre at its regular meeting Wednesday, but agreed unanimously to ask for more.
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Green school to feature wind turbine (www.thesudburystar.com)Last week, board officials met with the pubic at the new school to discuss plans to make the school the first carbon neutral school in Ontario -- a school that produces as much energy as it consumes.
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The Sage: nation’s top eco-friendly house (www.gogreenstreet.com)LEED Platinum home in Eugene, Oregon. the Sage is now the nations most eco-friendly home!
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Green features at new school reduce operating costs (www.northernlife.ca)The 500 children attending the new Walden Public School in Lively will learn first-hand about helping the environment through the many “green” energy saving and energy-producing features in the building, according to the director of education of the Rainbow District School Board.
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Award for school's 'green' roof (news.bbc.co.uk)Attracting birds, bees and butterflies, Sharrow School's 'green roof' is the first in England to be given Local Nature Reserve status.
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Casa Huerta (casahuerta.com.ar)Casahuerta plantea un sistema productivo de huertas para el sustento alimenticio de sus habitantes para ser incorporado a las viviendas a traves del desarrollo de prototipos que contemplen las necesidades básicas de cobijo, infraestructura y sustento alimenticio de un grupo familiar.
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What is EcoDensity? :: Vancouver EcoDensity (www.vancouver-ecodensity.ca)how density, design, and land use can contribute to environmental sustainability, affordability, and livability. EcoDensity is a Charter that commits the City of Vancouver and its citizens to address change more proactively and adapt our city
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Green Residential Communities (www.gogreenstreet.com)Sustainable home development across the US.
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38.Ingenious Two-in-One Radiant Panel Structural Subfloor (www.gabreport.com)
Warmboard—a radiant floor panel that ingeniously serves also as a structural subfloor. Warmboard consists of two main ingredients. The bottom layer is plywood (4’ x 8’ x 1-1/8” thick) made of 7 ply layers of Douglas Fir which is cross-banded and bonded together with exterior grade phenolic adhesive, as well as grooved in an efficient curvilinear pattern to accommodate the tubing that carries the water
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Green affordable housing gets $4 billion (www.gogreenstreet.com)Enterprise Community Partners plans on giving up $4 billion to build new affordable housing that’s green.
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Rooftop plantings mitigate global warming (greatlakesecho.org)Planting the rooftops in Detroit has the same environmental benefit as removing 10,000 SUVs off the road, according to a recent study.
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Ecocem - the Green Cement (www.ecocem.ie)Ecocem is made from a recycled material. Additionally, the life cycle footprint of structures made with Ecocem is significantly reduced because structures made with Ecocem can last over twice as long as structures made with traditional cement
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Sneak A Peek: America's Strange Homes For Sale Forbes.com (www.forbes.com)They aren't the only homes that inspire double-takes. The inclination to buck homebuilding conventions extends to property owners who have custom-built castles, installed ice cream parlors and occupied lighthouses to meet their housing needs
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Chattanooga Tennessse's LEED incentive program and resource center (greenspaceschattanooga.com)Offering funds for commercial construction and renovation projects. Covering all administrative costs associated with obtaining LEED certification and offering dedicated funding for the installation of high profile, very public, exemplary sustainable design features such as green roofs, solar or wind energy generation and geothermal heating.
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Omega Center Pioneer project in the Living Building Challenge. (www.eomega.org)The Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) is a state-of-the art education center and natural wastewater treatment facility. A model of sustainable architecture, the OCSL is a pioneering project in the Living Building Challenge
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Must View: VULGARE › Paysage * Landscape * (www.vulgare.net)Absolutely wonderful photo blog of landscape architecture projects
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Royal Institute of British Architects (www.ribapix.com)RIBApix, a growing database dedicated to providing you with exceptional and unique images from the collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the world’s most extensive visual archive devoted to architecture.
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Stabilized, Insulated, Rammed Earth walls (www.sirewall.com)Another Canadian green building product. . SIREWALL homes and buildings are constructed with a matrix of local soils strengthened with rebar and a small percentage of cement that surround a core of insulation. A typical SIREWALL is 18" to 24" thick, with 4" of rigid insulation hidden in the centre of the wall
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New green school in Walden to be completed this fall (www.northernlife.ca)
Walden Public School will be a model for sustainable development, with geothermal heating and cooling systems, radiant floor heating, displacement ventilation, energy efficient fixtures, occupancy sensors, waterless urinals and solar panels.Projected enrolment is approximately 500 students.
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2001 PDF Download: Ramsey Lake Greenway Park.pdf (www.planningsudbury.com)74 page document outlining proposed park for the east end of Ramsey Lake
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Mike Holmes set " to Make It Right" in Sudbury | Building green a focus for HGTV star (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Due to break ground this fall, every aspect of the “green village” pilot project will be built at above LEED Platinum, from the houses to the schools, from the sewage systems to the street lights.Streets, sidewalks and driveways will be heated by geothermal technology, doing away with the need for winter salting or the danger of frost-and-heave.
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