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• 3p’s Data Center Week: Creating a Context for Green IT

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  For many of us, the data center is something we all know exists; and as we have been reading more and more, it is something that needs “greening” to improve large corporations’ environmental footprints.Yet, aside from the select few that work and think about data centers on a day-to-day basis, the majority of ...
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• Enterprise Sustainability and Greening Data Centers

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  By Dr. Zen Kishimoto, Principal Analyst, Alta Terra Research Network Some years ago, energy was cheap. Few people in corporations paid attention to how much energy was consumed company wide, much less in data centers. More recently, however, several factors have changed this scene completely. These factors included ...
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• Data Centers as Information Factories

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  By Dave Ohara, Data Center Consultant and Publisher of GreenM3.comI have been writing on the Green Data Center topic for more than two years. After more than 1,000 blog posts, one of the things that I have found is the name “data center” doesn’t mean what most people who don’t work on them think they [...]
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• Climate Change Denial: Where It Counts, Its Not Going Up

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  George Monbiot is beside himself. He writes in his post Death Denial: "There is no point in denying it: were losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is ...
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• Liberty Mutual’s 10 St. James Avenue, Boston Building Receives LEED Silver Certificate for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.libertymutualgroup.com On November 05, 2009 Liberty Mutual Group, announced that its 10 St. James Avenue building, a 585,000 square foot Class A office building located in Boston’s Back Bay, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (LEED EB O&M) by ...
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• Green Buildings Continue Impressive Growth, New Market Study Finds

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.GreenerBuildings.com/impact2009 Green building activity has sustained impressive growth during 2009, amid a brutal construction market that has decimated other segments of the construction marketplace, according to the 2009 Green Building Market & Impact Report published on November 5, 2009 by ...
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• The Zero Energy Home

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 583
  Almost two decades ago, Marc Porat captured the imagination of Silicon Valley with a radical idea and a hot new start-up, General Magic. Spray foan insulates an attic space at March Porats California home The radical idea was to develop software agents – or virtual genies – able to carry out the wishes of ...
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• Liquid Granite and the hunt for a carbon-neutral cement

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Cement is responsible for 5% of the worlds carbon emissions, and the race is on to find an alternativeAlok Jha, guardian.co.uk 4 Nov 09;What do you do with a problem like cement? Around 2bn tonnes are used every year, each tonne a source of 0.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide as it is made. The cement industry is responsible ...
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• New Landscape Rating System to Transform the Industry, Complete Green Building Puzzle

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 512
  The  Sustainable Sites Initiative released the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings. A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) , the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U.S. Botanic ...
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• Human Responses to Green Design

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 512
  Frederick Marks, AIA, a partner with AC Martin , an architecture design firm, presented on the varied human responses to green design at the National Building Museum. Marks focused on recent developments in testing the value of sustainable architecture and landscapes, and asked: “Are they actually providing us ...
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• Simran’s Eco-Friendly Home Makeover Comes to Oprah.com

  
  Sustainablog — Authority: 113
  Buying your first home is both nerve-wracking and exhilarating. Imagine the heightening of both of those emotions if you choose to 1) buy an older house full of character, and 2) jump right into green updates and renovations upon purchase. You’ll then have a good sense of what journalist, professor, and good ...
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• Help TerraCycle Find New Life for Old Toothbrushes

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  Courtesy of Flickr (krossbow)Look at your toothbrush. It’s likely made of some form of plastic, rubber, and inventive design engineering, packed into a small space. After your initial decision process, where color, teeth cleaning wizardry, and perhaps recycled content and recyclability came into play, you don’t ...
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• Incremental Cost, Measurable Savings: Enterprise Green Communities Criteria

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/programs/green_communities/nextgen/incremental_costs_full_report.pdf Executive Summary Applying comprehensive green methods and materials to affordable housing developments invariably raises two hotly debated questions: 1) How much do these measures cost? and 2) Are these measures ...
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• Super Heroes of Green Building

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  With unprecedented legislation, forward-thinking design and standards, and many active supporters, one might say that California is a leader in the green building charge. Friday’s 3rd Annual Green Building Super Heroes Award Gala, hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council – Northern California Chapter (USGBC-NCC), ...
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• Green heights: Daniel Libeskind sketches up a shining green beacon for Düsseldorf

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  Europe is fast turning out to be a more than worthy rival for the pompous Middle East when it comes to green architecture and spectacular design, all being amalgamated into one singular astounding structure. The latest glassy crystalline wonder that is set to take center stage in the heart of German city of ...
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• CleanTech Goes to Washington, VC Leader Testifies Before Senate

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 428
  Statement of Stephan Dolezalek VantagePoint Venture Partners , CleanTech Group Leader Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act October 29, 2009 Chairwoman Boxer, Ranking Member Inhofe and Members of the Committee, I am ...
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• Energy and emergy based cost–benefit evaluation of building envelopes relative to geographical location and climate

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.06.009 Abstract: This paper presents an environmental evaluation of building envelopes, made of three different technologies: a traditional air-cavity wall, a plus-insulated wall (with an external cork covering), and a ventilated wall (with external brick panels fixed on ...
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• Webinar: Building a Sustainable Future: Progress & Trends Toward Improving the Environmental Footprint of Commercial Buildings

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://tinyurl.com/GBMIRregistrationpage Featuring: Presentation of the Green Building Market & Impact Report 2009 by Robert Watson, GreenerBuildings.com Executive Editor and A Practical Perspective on the Role of Industry in Leading Positive Environmental Change in Today’s Commercial Facilities by Ed ...
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• Mass-market U.N. carbon scheme finds favor in India

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  David Fogarty, Reuters 30 Oct 09;SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new type of U.N. scheme is spreading clean energy technology to millions of people in India, promising to cut carbon emissions and help investors earn valuable carbon credits.Two leading carbon offset project developers in India say the scheme offers the promise ...
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• VC Jim Pettit sees big returns in green building materials as biofuels, solar dim

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Green When Serious Materials announced $60 million in additional venture capital funding last month , investor Jim Pettit felt more than a little bit vindicated. Pettit and his venture capital firm Navitas Capital led the early funding rounds in Serious, a Sunnyvale, ...
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