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26.Video Green Architecture and Building a Look at Green & Not-So-Green Building Products (www.gabreport.com)
Mr. Alex Wilson, the Executive Editor of Environmental Building News and the GreenSpec® Directory, and the Founder and President of BuildingGreen, Inc. based in Vermont
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27.BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere (bldgblog.blogspot.com)
Photographer Noah Sheldon got in touch the other week with a beautiful series of photos documenting the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert.
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28.Path to Freedom Urban Homestead (www.pathtofreedom.com)
Path to Freedom is a grassroots, family operated, original urban homestead located in the midst of Pasadena
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29.InterregnumDesign and Autonomy, (interregnumdesign.com)
The very nature of "homes" may change, perhaps dramatically.
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30.D.I.Y.Free Heat From An Old Window And Some Soda Cans. | EcoTech Daily (ecotechdaily.com)
take a look at a few pictures I took as I was building this solar space heater…
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31.Autodesk Launches Online Game on Green Building (usa.autodesk.com)
Autodesk, the California-based software design firm recently launched an online game, called RETROFITS , to help educate everyone–from industry professionals to teachers, parents and students –about green building issues.
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32.ACME United Nations Memorial Space (www.sweet-station.com)
London-based architecture firm ACME was recently awarded third prize in a competition to design a United Nations memorial. Initiated by the city of Chungju in South Korea, the selected memorial will rest in the city’s UN Peace Park
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33.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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34.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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35.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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36.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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37.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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38.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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39.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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40.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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41.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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42.Green Roofs, Independent UK Information and Research (livingroofs.org)
Welcome to livingroofs.org, the number one green roof website in the UK. Livingroofs.org is an independent organization that promotes green roofs and living roofs in the UK and is the UK member of the European Federation of Green Roof Association
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43.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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44.Learn about new green school (www.thesudburystar.com)
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45.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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46.Green Residential Communities (www.gogreenstreet.com)
Sustainable home development across the US.
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47.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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48.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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49.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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50.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