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Introduction to Living Building Challenge by Alessandro Bisagni in Hong Kong on July 23

Living Building Challenge by Alessandro Bisagni Platinum Hong Kong cordially invites you to a presentation introducing the Living Building Challenge™ green building standard. The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is the built environment’s most rigorous performance standard. It calls for the creation…

Alessandro7 julio 2015

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Roundup: Compelling Stories for the Month of June

Google Repurposes a Coal Plant As coal plants shut down in many parts of the world, Google has its eye on a particular site, the Widows Creek coal power plant in Jackson County in Alabama. The $600 million project hopes…

neoli30 junio 2015

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Help! My Green Building Isn't Physically Demanding Enough.

Our buildings are the exact antithesis of the Great Outdoors. Buildings—especially the modern skyscraper with its complex of offices, commercial spaces, residential areas—have become beautiful enclosures. Whereas in the past our hunter-gatherer ancestors were always on the go, prowling and…

neoli29 junio 2015

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Safe Furniture for Better Indoor Air Quality

Not all furniture are created equal. Your local artisan might have honest-to-goodness intentions when crafting a dining chair, but unfortunately that’s not the scenario in big-time factories that churn out products by the thousands each day. Mass production, in its…

neoli23 junio 2015

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LEED Adopts SITES in the Quest for Sustainable Landscaping

The Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has recently launched its newly adopted SITES rating system for sustainable landscaping. Generally regarded as the LEED equivalent for landscapes, the Sustainable Sites Initiative (or SITES) was developed in the fall of 2009 as…

neoli15 junio 2015

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Recharging Our Aquifers Through Green Building

Back in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a speech regarding water scarcity and conservation for an event called the International Conference on Water for Peace, attended by UN delegates from all over the world. Coincidentally, a week earlier, President…

neoli10 junio 2015

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May Story Roundup

Here are the stories that defined the month of May: from melting ice shelves and global levels of CO2, to a 19th-century-inspired solar energy system to the insane amount of water a small piece of steak requires for it to reach…

neoli31 mayo 2015

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Building Performance at a Glance with the LEED Dynamic Plaque

We live in the Age of Metrics where every bit of information and experience can now be quantified and digitized: steps we take each day, calories burned, hours slept, the number of people who just unfollowed you on Twitter, and…

neoli24 mayo 2015

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Animal Rights in the Year 2015

As of now, Leo and Hercules’ case is still pending. The two chimpanzees were briefly (for just a few hours) recognized as legal persons last month and granted a writ of habeas corpus, which basically frees them from detention, and…

neoli18 mayo 2015

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Low- and High-Tech Solutions for Earthquake-Proof Green Buildings

Experts tell us that it is buildings—not earthquakes—which claim lives. Before we had buildings and cities rising up and dotting the landscape, when everything was just valleys or fields or marshes or forests, and certainly no people around—earthquakes were just…

neoli7 mayo 2015

Introduction to Living Building Challenge by Alessandro Bisagni in Hong Kong on July 23

Roundup: Compelling Stories for the Month of June

Help! My Green Building Isn't Physically Demanding Enough.

Safe Furniture for Better Indoor Air Quality

LEED Adopts SITES in the Quest for Sustainable Landscaping

Recharging Our Aquifers Through Green Building

May Story Roundup

Building Performance at a Glance with the LEED Dynamic Plaque

Animal Rights in the Year 2015

Low- and High-Tech Solutions for Earthquake-Proof Green Buildings

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