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• Oak Park Garage Exudes Style and Sustainability

  
  Green Building : Jetson Green — Authority: 525
  Tom Bassett-Dilley recently sent us these photos of his prototype green garage on a 30 wide lot in south Oak Park, Illinois.  The garage was built with FSC-certified lumber, a salvaged concrete slab, locally produced recycled content steel siding, and salvaged cedar siding.  Theres also a Live Roof green roof, ...
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• Elementary school / Hamonic + Masson architects

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 654
  © Hervé Abbadie Architects: Hamonic + Masson architects Location: Paris, France Project Team: Gaëlle Hamonic, Jean-Christophe Masson, Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt, Violette Sirot, Katharina Thielmann, Anne-Lise Leymarie Landscape Architects: Gilot / Mandel Engineering and quantity surveyors: Sibat ...
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• The Greenhouse FX: Episode 1 “Solar 1.01″

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 446
  First webisode in the 5-part series. Two sisters do a green make over on their house and get a lesson in solar power. Duration : 0:2:41 Technorati Tags: comedy , Entertainment , environment , Green , green roof , home makeover , Solar , solar panels , Solar-energy , Solar-Power
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• Green roofs to prevent sewerage overflow

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 572
  From the Huffington Post : CSOs are the single biggest source of pathogens for many urban bodies of water. The warning bells about sewers and the insufficient infrastructure have been ringing for decades. Though not the best for holiday table talk, it is critical that there is more discussion about new solutions in ...
  2 days ago

• Up on the Rooftop, Ideas Pause

  
  FoodShed Planet — Authority: 402
  So I was standing there on the grass which I never really finished push-reel-mowing back in October (and, by the way, Im now thinking of not giving up on that). I looked up at the men on my roof ripping asphalt shingles and tossing them onto blue tarps that are over my garden, which now surrounds three sides of my ...
  2 days ago

• Green Roofs – Bringing Nature Back to Town

  
  Biodiversity and Ornithology in Ireland — Authority: 120
  Green Roof Ardmore Originally uploaded by Mike Maunsell Green Roofs have become a very important component of sustainable urban development within the last 30 years. Growing environmental awareness and the striking economical and ecological advantages are the driving forces for this great success. At ...
  4 days ago

• Green roof creator recycles environment — and himself

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 137
  Tim Elam’s yard at his southwest Reno home is a spectacular homage to the concept of recycling. The bricks in his walkways and patios are from buildings scrapped during downtown’s renovation. The driveway is made of broken-up sidewalks, fashioned like cobblestones. His wife’s greenhouse is entirely made ...
  4 days ago

• The Daily Five: Friday, 04 December, 2009

  
  EcoTech Daily — Authority: 128
  Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid; Google to Move Into Clean Energy; CMT-380 plug-in diesel hybrid supercar; Boosting Biofuels; Thermeleon roof tiles Tata Nano: World’s Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid Not sure if this is at all necessary, but hey – who am I to judge? If all goes according to plan, the ultra-cheap hybrid ...
  5 days ago

• Green dreams for social space

  
  Gardenvisit.com Blog — Authority: 415
  The greentainer project by Exposure architects  demonstrates the innovative social potential of relatively simple green roof spaces. By importing a modern green house to function as a flexible space for art exhibitions, soirees etc the social use of a roof garden space can be enhanced without detracting from the ...
  5 days ago

• Camp Twin Lakes Treehouse for differently abled has green roof, solar array

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 486
  Decked with 1.4 kW solar arrays, a 1,700 square-foot roof garden, and domed skylights, the wheelchair accessible treehouse at Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge, Georgia, will surely be an edifying experience for differently abled kids. Amy Leathers from Lord, Aeck & Sargent wished to transform the treehouse into an ...
  6 days ago

• New Camp Twin Lakes Treehouse Outfitted with Solar Array, Green Roof

  
  Green Building : Jetson Green — Authority: 525
  Kids with special illnesses, disabilities, and other challenges received a new toy this summer at Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge, Georgia.  Designed by Amy Leathers, senior associate at Lord, Aeck & Sargent , the treehouse serves as a play area and educational space for learning about nature and sustainability.  ...
  6 days ago

• MAD Architects’ Urban Forest Skyscraper For China

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 734
  Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical forest set in the heart of the city, designed to bring more nature ...
  1 week ago

• A LEED Gold Green Building Laboratory

  
  Green Building : Jetson Green — Authority: 525
  Ann Arbor, Michigan architectural firm A3C has turned its building into a showcase for a number of green building components, and managed to produce a LEED-CI Gold renovation of the existing two-story building while they were at it.  The firm wanted to have a showcase for a variety of green building options, as ...
  1 week ago

• Green Roof (watercolor 6x8) $75

  
  A Painting On Some Days — Authority: 113
  The late afternoon sunlight hit this old house just right and made some nice patterns. It caught my eye and I to work fast! "Green Roof" old house watercolor november chill watertown tennessee About This Painting: The late afternoon sunlight hit this old house just right and made some nice patterns. It caught ...
  1 week ago

• AD Round Up: Green Roof Part II

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 654
  Sustainability Round Up to end the week. Some really interesting projects may be done using green roof. Here we show you our second part ( see the first one here ), of previously featured projects with green roof. California Academy of Sciences / Renzo Piano The building recovers two and mixes it with a whole ...
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• £650,000 Barcombe village hall to be a beacon of sustainability

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 486
  Satellite Architects , the London-based architectural firm hopes to make the best use of the green field site in erecting a sustainable village hall in Barcombe, East Sussex. The £650,000 village hall, once it’s complete, will replace the existing village hall with some incorporated eco-friendly practices. The ...
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• The Green Façades of Édouard François

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 734
  Inhabitat has done a lot of coverage of living walls, particularly those of French botanist Patrick Blanc. They are complicated things, requiring pumps, hydroponics and a lot of care. If they don’t get it right they can fail, like the Paradise Park Childrens Centre in London did. Edouard François does a ...
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• A not so traditional Secret Garden

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 424
  A secret garden on the rooftop of Minneapolis Target Center , home of NBA Minnesota Timberwolves is making the view from up above beautiful.  The Minnesota heat which reaches 140 degree won’t be such an inconvenience anymore.  The 2.5 acres of plants will keep the same temperature as the air and this will reduce ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rolling Green Roofed Sports Park Rises in Slovenia

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 734
  Since Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004, its capital city Ljubjana has lead the way in economic and social development. Unlike other nations who have just begun to find wealth and the new construction that comes with it, the Slovenes remain conscious of the urban and social impact of what they are breaking ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sozawe Terraced Green Roof Complex

  
  Green Building : Jetson Green — Authority: 525
  The other day, Design Boom reported on this project for the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.  Designed by NL Architects , the project, called Sozawe -- welfare department and work agency -- has office spaces, a large interior public space, and 215 parking spaces.  Each of the nine office floors includes ...
  2 weeks ago

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