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• UK households spending more on going green, figures show

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Spending on green goods has increased by 5%, with each household spending an average of £251 on environmentally friendly products Read an excerpt from the report UK households are slowly going green and are now spending more than £250 a year on environmentally friendly products such as low-energy lightbulbs and ...
  8 hours ago

• Cooling Downtown with Seawater in Honolulu

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 656
  Within the next couple of years Honolulu will become the first warm-climate city to use frigid deep-sea water to cool part of its downtown core.Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, a limited liability company created specifically to develop the $240 million project, says its technology will cut the city’s air ...
  9 hours ago

• Canada’s Loyalty One Building Gets the Country’s Largest Rooftop Solar Panel Array

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 132
  The Loyalty One building, from where the Air Miles rewards programs are managed, has just been equipped with the biggest rooftop solar panel system in the entire Canada. The system’s capacity isn’t that impressive compared to other installations around the world – just 165 kW, but it’s perfectly enough for the ...
  21 hours ago

• Green Life Smart Life Achieves GOLD LEED for Homes Certification

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 423
  Green Life Smart Life officially achieved GOLD LEED for Homes Certification through the US Green Building Council . Thanks to all our partners and service providers who helped make this dream a reality and to Conservation Services Group for their guidance and final review. Our project scored an impressive ...
  23 hours ago

• City Drops Mandatory Retrofits But Passes Greener, Greater Buildings Plan

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Earlier today, the City Council passed the four pieces of legislation which Mayor Bloomberg introduced last April as his "Greener, Greater Buildings Plan." As youll recall, building owners immediately opposed one of the bills (Int. 967: Audits & Retrocommissioning), which would have required them to implement a ...
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• Destinations: The Winter Ball Dec 12th

  
  LOUNGERATI — Authority: 114
  Loungeratis best musical act of 2009, Michael Arenella & His Dreamland Orchestra team up with The George Gee Swing Orchestra to cordially invite you to... THE WINTER BALL Saturday Dec. 12th, 2009 Doors 8PM, Music 9PM $20 Michael Arenella & His Hot Eight and The George Gee Swing Orchestra partner up to ...
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• EPA Energy Star building program marks a decade

  
  Greenspace — Authority: 593
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is marking the 10-year anniversary of its Energy Star building program, with 8,400 structures across the country since 1999 that meet the energy efficiency standards. In 2008, Los Angeles ranked first among all U.S. cities, with more than 260 Energy Star buildings, including ...
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• Energy Retrofits Included in President’s Jobs Agenda

  
  PreservationNation — Authority: 468
  At a press event held at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, December 8, President Barack Obama announced his proposals to accelerate job growth and provide additional assistance in economic recovery. In his address , the President highlighted three key areas for next steps, one being the creation of jobs through ...
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• Vancouver 2010 Promises Greenest Olympic Games Ever

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 731
  From the world’s largest hydrogen bus fleet to a six-acre multi-use Olympic Oval , British Columbia appears determined to host the “ greenest games ever ” in Vancouver come February. The city has constructed a series of stunning sustainably-built structures in preparation for upcoming events, and has also ...
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• The Rating Game: ASHRAEs Building Energy Quotient Newest Ratings Player, Durst Gets On Board

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Seven and a half years ago, The New Yorkers Hendrick Hertzberg greeted the arrival of the short-lived, pretty thoroughly noxious neoconservative broadsheet The New York Sun with a gracious invocation of an E.B. White quote on the old (and equally noxious) New York Suns demise. White bemoaned the loss of "a voice in ...
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• Focus | Going green to save green

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 528
      Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Going green isn’t about making a climate scientist in England or a bunch of bureaucrats in Copenhagen happy. It’s about the bottom line in places like the Town of Grottoes, where the new home for Wellness Concepts, a long-term care pharmacy, is being built ...
  2 days ago

• Skagen ØKOntor: The Greenest Office Building in Norway

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 653
  Images via Various Architects Have I mentioned that I love wood construction? That it sequesters carbon for the life of the building, is lightweight and gorgeous to look at? Now Various Architects (thats their name, not a group) are proposing the most sustainable office building in Norway. Among other attributes, it ...
  2 days ago

• Green Life Smart Life Opens – Our Launch Week Begins!

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 423
  We submitted our LEED-H application one week ago today. The box we shipped to Conservation Services Group compiled our application and all of the supporting documentation. At the time of submission, we had 77.5 points in our preliminary rating and an additional 36 points available in our maybe section, for a total ...
  2 days ago

• Stoke-on-Trent call center validates Vodafones intent to go green

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 513
  Vodafone is indeed going green as is evident from the unveiling of its new Stoke-on-Trent call center. The design team of RPS Architects has crammed the green building with daylight-controlled lighting, rainwater harvesting and wholly recyclable steel and mineral wool in designing it. The neat design ...
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• Wrightwood Crossing Lincoln Park Condos Seeking LEED Certified Platinum

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 129
  Built on the former site of the Crouch Walker Building, this 19-unit building’s green goal is to reach the LEED platinum standard set by the United States Green Building Council.  Located just 3 blocks west and equal distant from the Diversey and Fullerton stops on the Brown and Red lines of the El, it is [...]
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• Malcolm Wells, Champion of “Gentle Architecture,” Dies at 83

  
  ChelseaGreen — Authority: 442
  Malcolm Wells, a pioneer of underground building and natural design, has died.Wells died of congestive heart failure in Brewster, Mass., home of the Underground Art Gallery where he resided. His theories of “gentle architecture,” influenced by an environmental awareness of the destructive footprints of man-made ...
  2 days ago

• Fighting to Keep the Green and the Great in New York Citys Greener, Greater Building Plan

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 653
  Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the launch of the 1,000 Supers Green Building Training Initiative photo via seiu.org Last Friday, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he was abandoning one of the most ambitious components of his Greener, Greater Buildings Plan. This component would have required owners of buildings greater ...
  2 days ago

• Green Living Gets Real

  
  Uprooted, an eco-travel blog — Authority: 413
  Architecture is a topic that can be fascinating and compelling but often turns out dangerously dull—and green architecture is often downright boring. Part of the problem is that sustainable architecture is only available to the super-rich, who invest in eco-mansions while the masses are stuck in the same old ...
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• INTO Delegation in Copenhagen for Climate Talks

  
  PreservationNation — Authority: 468
  In September, the members of the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)—including the National Trust for Historic Preservation—adopted the Dublin Declaration on Climate Change at the 13th International Conference of National Trusts hosted by An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland. My colleagues ...
  2 days ago

• Various Architects Design Norway’s Most Energy-Efficient Office Building

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 731
  At Inhabitat, we’ve been showing our support for COP15 by telling our readers about the need to take action on climate change . Various Architects in Oslo, Norway has taken a different path and did what they do best – designing a concept for an ultra energy-efficient building that could help mitigate the ...
  3 days ago

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