Green Museum for a Green World

Seasoned travelers know well enough to stay away from museums when visiting a new city. It’s in the outdoors where life and culture thrives, they argue. Not within the safe, enclosed walls of buildings. But there is still something to…

neoli3 de julio de 2013

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Quick Green Buildings in a Fast-Paced World

The quest to raise the world’s tallest skyscraper is officially on. Named Sky City, the 220-floor green building is an ambitious well-intentioned project by the Chinese firm Broad Sustainable Construction. After much delay from securing construction permits and other bureaucratic…

neoli11 de junio de 2013

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Edible Landscapes for Our Office Building Gardens

We’re used to seeing PETA vegan campaigns featuring celebrities clad only in various produce. This time around, the Virginia-based animal rights organization is giving us an idea of the scope in which veganism is currently embraced by all of America. …

neoli8 de junio de 2013

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Spray-On Solar Cell Prepares to Make a Debut

Traditional silicon-wafer cells and thin-film solar cells have an upcoming rival—solar cells of the spray-on kind. Spray-on solar cells for glass windows (Image from newenergytechnologies.com) Since 2010, New Energy Technologies based in Columbia, Maryland has been busy developing their breakthrough…

neoli31 de mayo de 2013

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Impact of LEED on Asthma in Occupants

A recent study just released by Johns Hopkins University shows that asthma rates are significantly reduced for occupants in buildings that have achieved LEED Certification. This is yet another great example of the qualitative benefits (often overlooked) of green buildings and…

Alessandro28 de mayo de 2013

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Let’s Have Bird-Friendly Buildings Once and for All

In the U.S., as many as one billion birds die each year from accidentally colliding into glass windows of buildings. We can’t get our head around this number—one billion—and yet that number apparently is already a conservative estimate. The Aqua…

neoli23 de mayo de 2013

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Shanghai Green Building Subsidies

NOTE: If you wish to download a PDF version of this article, please click Shanghai Green Building Subsidies (742 KB). By Olivia Lu-Hill and Jade Chen China has been in the spotlight lately for its exponentially growing number of green buildings. The…

olivia23 de mayo de 2013

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Smart Paint, Carbon Dioxide, and the Building Sector

One of the more disheartening news reports we read about last week was the one about carbon dioxide reaching a new record level—400 parts per million, as measured in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. For scientists and environmentalists, this…

neoli18 de mayo de 2013

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Upping Our Cities’ Walk Score | Why Walkability Matters

In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, there is a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan who likes to walk while everyone else drives around in their big, important cars. Actually, they don’t just drive around; they zoom, as fast as…

neoli9 de mayo de 2013

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LEED Emerges as the Preferred Green Building Certification for All GSA Buildings

It’s a triumphant week for USGBC and the entire green building movement. Three months after the General Services Administration (GSA) sought public input on LEED takes the lead once again for all GSA buildings in the U.S. which green building…

neoli4 de mayo de 2013