Tag: Green Building - Page 11
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Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide (Book Review)
David Bergman's new book is a concise summary of some of the latest thinking.
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Chemistry Industry Attacks LEED; BuildingGreen Checks The Facts
Do the claims of the industry stand up to close scrutiny? Nope.
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Living Building Challenge Wins The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
LEED is for wimps. The Living Building Challenge is the highest bar in sustainable design, and the Fuller Institute just recognized it.
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BC's First Energy Star Qualified Home is a Round Beauty
A round home is British Columbia's first home to be Energy Star qualified, a topic of contention on TreeHugger.
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Cross Laminated Timber Comes To America And The New York Times Is On It
Breaking the timber ceiling in North America will take time, and we don't have a lot of it.
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LEED Green Building Update Delayed From 2012, Now LEED V4
One of the great things about LEED is that they upgrade it regularly, but was this too much, too fast?
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House Of The Immediate Future A Mix of Prefab and Site Built Construction
Habitat for Humanity project demonstrates the best of both worlds
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LEED Bashing: Government Study Finds "Equivalence" Between LEED and Green Globes
Green Globes is bought and paid for by the lumber and plastics industry. How can they be considered equivalent?
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Victorian Terrace Becomes Energy-Efficient House of the Future
An experimental project turns a typical English, Victorian house into a high-tech energy efficient home.
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Ferraris May Be Red, But Their Factory Is Green and Gorgeous
A visit to the Ferrari factory makes me eat some of my preconceptions.
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Inside Northwestern's Off-the-Grid Tiny House
Northwestern's Tiny House Project shows how we can live smaller and more sustainable.
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LEED Bashing: Plastic People Join The Lumber Industry in Trying To Get The Feds To Drop LEED
The plastics industry and the US Chamber of Commerce gang up to kill green building
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Natural Gas Industry Worried Green Building Regs Will Damage Its Reputation
The American Gas Association has been aggressively lobbying against efforts to zero-out fossil fuel use in federal buildings. It's painfully typical corporate behavior.
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Perennial Wood Lasts At Least 25 Years Without Toxic Chemical Treatment
The answer to the problem of pressure treated lumber is vinegar.
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Prefabricated Cantilevered Stairs Are "The Maximum In Minimalism"
Now anyone can have those gorgeous cantilevered stairs that break every building code.
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Tiny, Rundown Attic Space Becomes Stunning Rooftop Apartment
This Barcelona apartment shows that a little vision can create luxury in the unlikeliest of spaces.
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Wood Construction Can Last A Long Time
In Bologna, Italy, it has been doing the job for 800 years.
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Cross Laminated Timber is Ready for Prime Time
They are using this fabulous tech all over Europe. Why are we taking so long in North America, when the trees are dying?
