Tag: Greenbuild - Page 3
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Allied Container Systems Builds Entire Cities From Shipping Containers
TreeHugger has shown quite a few shipping container houses and even a few shipping container buildings, but never anything on the scale of the work of Allied Container Systems; they build entire cities out of shipping containers. But
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Bio-Based Phase-Changing Material Adds Instant Thermal Mass
So much on show at Greenbuild, the huge green building convention put on by the US Green Building Council, has been seen on TreeHugger; one has to set some standards. So no products with LEEDING The Way or any other bad
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The Hottest Ideas Coming out of Greenbuild 2010
One has to wonder about the carbon footprint of 20,000 architects, engineers and builders flying off to a convention, but there is a lot to see and learn. This year the sustainable building event Greenbuild International
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Is The Era of The Big Trade Show Over?
CES was supposed to be greener than ever, but as Jaymi says, "Let's put aside the fact that CES is a massive tradeshow held in the middle of a desert, attracting a majority of people who could care less about the environment. We could go on about
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Daylighting Is Making a Comeback
A hundred years ago there were all kinds of sophisticated technologies to manage, direct and control natural light. Cheap electricity made such variable and hard-to-manage sources unnecessary; just throw in a couple of fluorescent fixtures and it
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GEO Power System Preheats and Precools The Air with a Vertical Earth Tube
One of the most important components of a tightly sealed house or a super-sealed Passive House is a fresh air system. Often they are heat recovery ventilators, and others have used earth tubes running under the home or in the garden. Japan's Geo Power
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Riding the Phoenix Light Rail System
What with its lack of water, dependence on air conditioning and endless sprawl, people like Jim Kunstler don't think Phoenix has much of a future. That doesn't stop the people there from trying to be greener; an example is their great new light rail
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The Local Movement Comes to Forestry
In the food world there is the debate between "organic" and "local" and the idea of looking your farmer in the eye. It appears that much the same thing is happening in wood- there is certified FSC lumber, and there is local, sustainably harvested
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Surprises From Greenbuild (Slideshow)
Greenbuild in Phoenix attracted all kinds of people and products, and of course Al Gore always attracts fans and supporters. Quite a few products on the floor didn't have quite enough information or my photography was too lousy to put up an entire
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Ice Could Be Key To Storage of Renewable Energy
75% of our electricity goes into buildings, and much of that runs air conditioning. The entire system is built to try and cope with the peak loads that come in summer. TreeHugger has covered ice storage systems before; they simply make ice at night,
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Cool New Evaporative Cooler From Speakman Sips Electricity, Guzzles Water
Speakman is better known for its luxury shower heads, but it was fitting that in the hot, dry atmosphere of Phoenix, that they demonstrate the latest in evaporative coolers. For those who haven't been following our search for the solar powered air
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Best of Show For Green Booth Design: Autodesk
Autodesk says it is "committed to sustainable design" and they certainly tried to show it in their booth, which is made entirely of recycled cardboard, sustainably harvested BC fir, recycled cardboard sonotubes, all treated with a 100% biodegradable
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ForestEthics Keeps Up The Pressure against SFI Certification
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Is now battling in the courts, in front of the Federal Trade Commission, at the US Green Building Council to gain credibility. That doesn't cut any ice with ForestEthics, who never miss a chance to expose it
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Steve Mouzon on Learning from Old Buildings
When you show up at GreenBuild you are overwhelmed by the new, the high-tech, the inevitable "LEEDING the way" slogans, and you see and hear very little about the old and the existing; it isn't shiny. There are a few voices out there in the wilderness
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Greenward Ridge Vent Turns Your Entire Roof Into a Solar Collector
Sometimes the most impressive products at Greenbuild are the most innocuous and boring looking things; last year I thought the best of show was Agriboard, a SIP made from straw. This year I spent some time trying to figure out this ridge vent for a
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Smokey Robinson is Green Entrepreneur, Promoting GPS Guided Skylights
The King of Motown is worried about what kind of planet his grandchildren are going to grow up in, and loved the idea of Ciralight sun-tracking skylights. They have a little solar panel that
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Al Gore Rocks Greenbuild
Al Gore was in fighting trim at Greenbuild, speaking to 28,000 people who flew in from all over the country to learn about and celebrate green design. While his presentation was a bit wooden, the content was golden:
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Vinyl and Asphalt are Green at Greenbuild
Or so they are trying to tell us. The Vinyl Institute claims that vinyl is sustainable, versatile, energy efficient and durable. They even built a website, Vinyl in design, to "familiarize architects and designers with the range of solutions vinyl
