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• Recycle Your Christmas Tree

  
  Atlanta Real Estate Forum — Authority: 438
  This year, don’t just throw away that beautiful Christmas Tree that has been the highlight of your holiday decorations, recycle it! Instead of being taken to a landfill, taking a long time to biodegrade and having a negative effect on our environment, a recycled Christmas Tree will be composted or turned into mulch ...
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• Green Roofed London Hotel is Buried Underground

  
  The Far Edge — Authority: 155
  This five star hotel is going under – underground that is! Designed by ReardonSmith Architects for a proposed development at Hersham Golf Club in Surrey, London, this new subterranean hotel will pay its ultimate respects to London’s Green Belt by placing all 200+ guest rooms underneath it! The entire scheme ...
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• 4 Green Building Trends to Watch in 2010

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 654
  The market for new construction is still struggling to pick itself up , but the growing trend of green building promises a sort of renaissance for the centuries-old industry. That’s the hope, anyways, and if you believe (as we do, though with a healthy pinch of skepticism) the mountain of reports and data pointing ...
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• 4 Green Building Trends to Watch in 2010

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  The market for new construction is still struggling to pick itself up, but the growing trend of green building promises a sort of renaissance for the centuries-old industry. That’s the hope, anyways, and if you believe (as we do, though with a healthy pinch of skepticism) the mountain of reports and data pointing to ...
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• Themes, Memes and Dreams in a Decade of Architecture

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 725
  The blogs are full of “best of the year” lists, but architecture moves more slowly – it takes a long time for ideas to get built, technologies to evolve and for knowledge to spread. Instead, we look at the themes and memes of the past decade of architecture in TreeHugger. From the rise of modern prefab to ...
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• San Francisco City Hall Lights Up in Strawberry and Lime for Christmas

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 140
  Either it’s National Daiquiri Month and the Powers That Are at City Hall wanted to honor California’s strawberry and lime / avocado  growers, or…. …this lighting arrangement is the best They can do to approximate Christmas Red and Christmas Green down in Civic Center . (Way too much yellow in ...
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• Dubai gets its first LEED certified ‘Green’ Building

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 441
  Now even Dubai can hold up its head high when it comes to caring for the environment. With the whole Copenhagen summit on, it was high time everyone took energy saving and environment consciousness seriously. The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is now the first ever building in the Arab region to be globally ...
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• LEEDing the Way: What to Expect on the New LEED 3.0 Exam

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 478
  I recently had the opportunity to speak with Matt Macko who helped develop the new LEED exam and is a principal at Environmental Building Strategies about his role in the creation of the new exam. As part of his daily work, Mr. Macko consults with clients who are interested in obtaining LEED certification for their ...
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• The New Moon accentuates the prosperity of modern UAE

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 592
  Designed as a part of an international competition to build the centerpiece of Zabeel Park in Dubai, UAE, the “New Moon” by Varabyeu Partners is a symbolic architecture that other than presenting a unique design also “accentuates the prosperity of present-day United Arab Emirates.” an emblem of power and ...
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• Green Roofed London Hotel is Buried Underground

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 725
  This five star hotel is going under – underground that is! Designed by ReardonSmith Architects for a proposed development at Hersham Golf Club in Surrey, London, this new subterranean hotel will pay its ultimate respects to London’s Green Belt by placing all 200+ guest rooms underneath it! The entire scheme ...
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• Zeroing In: Redhook Green Is a Zero Energy Building, But What Does That Mean?

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 118
  We know some things -- good things -- about Redhook Green, the just-announced "net zero" mixed-use development in (wait for it) Red Hook. For instance: we know that it has a cool look inspired, according to the designers at Brooklyns Garrison Architects , by the shipping containers lining Red Hooks river frontage. ...
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• Chicago’s Yannell House Makes Builder Magazine’s Favorite 2009 New Homes Top Ten

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 128
  Chicago’s LEED-H Platinum home in the north-side neighborhood of Ravenswood with it’s unique design made Builder Magazine’s Top Ten Coolest houses in 2009.  Built with just about every green innovation on a traditional Chicago lot near the Ravenswood Metra stop on the North shore line, the Yannell House is as ...
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• architecten 2012: material reuse

  
  HAUTE*NATURE — Authority: 134
  2012 Atchitecten is a design firm from the Netherlands working to reduce the waste stream by incorporating reclaimed and waste materials into their construction projects and forms. Watch this episode about the Architcture Firms reuse projects, like their washing machine space station coffee house. More on their ...
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• Casa Verde: BrightBuilt Barn Both Beautiful and Resourceful

  
  CasaSugar — Authority: 623
  If someone told you that you were going to live in a house in New England, through the Winter, without a furnace, youd probably laugh. Yet that is exactly what Kaplan Thompson Architects and Bensonwood Homes did with Maines BrightBuilt Barn. Judging by BrightBuilts recent Innovative Project Award from the US ...
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• Of Monkyspheres and Microhoods: Collective Urban Living for the 21st Century

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 653
  by Kurt McCullochWhen I was 18 years old, I voluntarily sequestered myself for nine-months on a narrow strip of rugged volcanic coastline on a tiny island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. For almost a year, I worked, slept, ate, and socialized inside an area bounded by mountains and the sea. Everything ...
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• Autodesk Launches Online RETROFITS Game to Build Awareness About Green Building Issues

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 653
  The California-based software design firm Autodesk recently launched an online game, called RETROFITS , to help educate everyone--from industry professionals to teachers, parents and students --about green building issues.
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• SAKO Architects’ Jenga-Like Building Provides Optimum Sunshine

  
  The Far Edge — Authority: 155
  What’s black and white and sunny all over? It’s the BUMPS housing complex in Beijing , created by SAKO Architects . Typical buildings in China face north and south, but SAKO’s design rotates the buildings 45 degrees from the north-south axis to provide maximum exposure to sunlight . The designers also ...
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• SAKO Architects’ Jenga-Like Building Provides Optimum Sunshine

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 725
  What’s black and white and sunny all over? It’s the BUMPS housing complex in Beijing , created by SAKO Architects . Typical buildings in China face north and south, but SAKO’s design rotates the buildings 45 degrees from the north-south axis to provide maximum exposure to sunlight . The designers also ...
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• Zino Green Investment Forum

  
  Renewable + Law — Authority: 120
  CJ Voss and Scott Olson , head of our Clean Tech Initiative, report: Zino Green Investment Forum The ZINO Society, a Seattle-based angel investment group, announced last week that its annual “ZINO Green Investment Forum” would be held on March 4, 2010, at the McKinstry Innovation Center in Seattle.   ...
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• Study projects green building will triple by 2013

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 135
  Even as a deepening recession and credit freeze have curtailed real estate development, green building construction starts increased fivefold between 2005 and 2008, McGraw-Hill Construction reports. McGraw-Hill expects the domestic green building market to triple by 2013, reaching up to $140 billion in ...
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