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• Green Business Idea - Green Janitor

  
  Green Business — Authority: 113
  One of our goals here at Green Business is to offer ideas to our readers to help them start their own green business.  Another excellent example of a green business is a green janitorial service, maybe even cleaning LEED certified buildings. These green business owners and workers use environmentally friendly ...
  9 hours ago

• LEED Green Associate

  
  Degree Space — Authority: 125
  Earlier this summer GBCI rolled out a revamped standard for LEED professionals. Up until this point all LEED Accredited Professionals (AP) took a single test to get their AP designation. The new system has introduced three tiers expertise. The first tier is Leed Green Associate . The second tier is LEED AP+, and the ...
  15 hours ago

• Triad Expert Answers the Question: Why is Indoor Air Quality Important

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  “Clean Air means higher Occupancy Productivity and Bigger Returns for Building Owners and Fewer Legal Issues…”
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• Facebook Grabs for Greener Data Centers

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 656
  Facebook’s 300 million users, logging 8 billion minutes per day on the site , leave the social network with a massive — and growing — appetite for data center real estate, and energy bills to match. According to Richard Miller at Data Center Knowledge, Facebook has just leased more data center space at ...
  2 days ago

• Verne Global – Iceland’s Green Data Center

  
  ArcticStartup — Authority: 548
  From Google over Apple to the Start-up next door, nearly every company today uses web hosting services or has huge server farms at their disposal so that their services can run smoothly. That much of this energy to run these data centers comes from fossil fuels or even nuclear energy is probably known, but ignored. ...
  2 days ago

• New green landscape rating system unveiled

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 559
  A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden today released the nations first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without ...
  3 days ago

• Electrical wiring considerations in a LEED project

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 127
  If you’re building a green home, there’s one subcontractor that is going to have a harder time adopting green building methods than the others, and that is your electrician. Why you may ask? These guys are generally old school, the young guys who work for them, they learned the old school way. That means wires ...
  3 days ago

• Sustainable Sites Guidelines & Benchmarks – Launched

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  As WLA reported recently – today is the launch of Guidelines &  Performance Benchmarks of the Sustainable Sites Initiative. You can download the 233 page report from the Sustainable Sites website . Today is also the opening of the Call for Pilot Projects to test various aspects of the Sustainable Sites ...
  3 days ago

• Watch building of prefab, ultra-green house live on the Web

  
  Green OC — Authority: 516
  A builder hoping to be the first in Orange County to construct the ultimate “green” home will erect the structure in a matter of hours Thursday morning, live on the Web. The building of the prefabricated, two-story house begins in Newport Beach about 9 a.m. and should be finished by about 11 a.m. View it ...
  4 days ago

• Highland Park affordable housing development earns LEED for Homes Gold

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 129
  11 attached townhomes in Highland Park received their LEED Gold certifications. The ambitious project, known as Hyacinth Place, is a fantastic example of how LEED Homes can be accessible and do not have to be expensive. The attached single-family townhomes were built with affordability in mind, targeted towards ...
  4 days ago

• New Study: Green Buildings Lead to Increased Productivity

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By A Siegel, Author of the Get Energy Smart! NOW! blog. All too often, those engaged in examining options for "greening" a new or existing building are constrained in a stove-piped cost analysis which (in a very simplified fashion) goes something along these lines: How much more will it cost to build? And, how fast ...
  4 days ago

• Taipei 101 Aims To Be Worlds Tallest Green Building

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 477
  Taiwans landmark building, Taipei 101, will undergo an 18-month energy renovation to become the worlds tallest green building.It is learned that Taipei Financial Center Corporation, the owner of Taipei 101, will apply for Leadership in Energy and Environment Design certification for the building. The company will also ...
  5 days ago

• Herzog & de Meuron Unveil New Miami Art Museum

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled their finished design for the new Miami Art Museum , which will be a stunning building surrounded by hanging gardens with tropical plants. Fit for a world renowned art museum, the new MAM will be three times as large as the existing building and will be aiming for LEED ...
  5 days ago

• Las Vegas CityCenter’s holistic spa now taking reservations (or, ‘Why I need to go to Vegas’)

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 125
  Sin City’s sustainable wonder, CityCenter, is unveiling its the intimate Vdara Health & Beauty -a “sensuous spa sanctuary” focused on holistic health and well being – on December 1, 2009. The 18,000-square-foot, two-level spa, salon and fitness center is committed to “sustainable luxury”. Selected by ...
  5 days ago

• Grey Global Moves Into LEED-CS-Hopeful Toy Building at 200 Fifth Avenue

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 463
  Out of the top 50 commercial office leases that were signed in Manhattan back in 2007, the 6th largest was secured by advertising and marketing firm Grey Global Group for a new 370,000-square-foot headquarters at L&L Holding Companys 200 Fifth Avenue. (You may recall that for both calendar years 2007 and 2008, we ...
  5 days ago

• Green concrete

  
  Centre Flow — Authority: 134
  When it comes to concrete, the Pantheon in Rome may be a perfect model for long-lasting green technology. LEED-status buildings are using its ancient wisdom in modern structures. The 2,000-year old-structure’s greenness is twofold.  First, if a building is designed to last for thousands of years, it will. Because ...
  6 days ago

• Is Wind Energy Green or Greenwash?

  
  Green Blog — Authority: 421
  The Friday Oct.30 edition of the Peace Arch News that is distributed in South Surrey and White Rock, British Columbia in Metro Vancouver that borders on the U.S. contained a thought-provoking snippet on wind power by Dr. Roy Strang who covers the environment for the publication. In it he writes: "Europeans are ...
  6 days ago

• Green University: Saudi Arabia’s KAUST With Eco-friendly Environment

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 523
  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may still be considered as one of the most conservative from a religious standpoint. But with the opening of the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, otherwise known as  KAUST , a new era in academic learning, combined with new innovations in ecological architecture and ...
  6 days ago

• Valley Candidates on “Green” Construction

  
  hburgnews.com — Authority: 122
  hburgnews.com reader Anne Nielsen surveyed all the House of Delegates candidates running in any part of Rockingham County (on behalf of the Climate Action Alliance of the Valley). See part one of this series here . Below are the results to the second question from her survey — What is your interest in policies ...
  1 week ago

• Dienstverlening; het is (alweer) mensenwerk

  
  31Volts — Authority: 110
  Misschien kun je nog mijn grote teleurstelling herinneren nadat ik met mijn Nike Zonnebril (in stukken) én met mijn ziel onder mijn arm de Run2Day winkel heb verlaten. Klein en persoonlijk leed. Toch wil ik graag delen hoe het wel kan. Na één telefoontje naar Nike Europe kwam ik in contact met Marchon ...
  1 week ago

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