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Sponsored: Lone explores the benefits of a holistic approach to sustainable design, and how we can build a more sustainable future.
by Lone Feifer
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A noted father-son team will discuss how sustainability is transforming urban architecture and design.
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A just-announced collaboration between the Green Building Certification Institute and the Well Building Institute seeks to marry health, wellness and sustainability in the built environment.
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Structures common in hair and bones have important implications for the future of biomedical devices, building design and beyond.
by Tom McKeag
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Nike, eBay and others led the charge on designing apps and services that helped to drive change over the past year.
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Recent winners of the VERGE 25 awards nail down what's driving change in sustainability and technology in 2013, 2014 and 2020.
by Elaine Hsieh
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The California college’s West Village is on its way to becoming the largest zero-net energy community in the nation.
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It's time for the building industry to shift from develpment to maintenance, using a life cycle approach.
by Clay Nesler
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Green construction and architecture has gone mainstream; here are some notable examples from around the world.
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IBM wins a contract to develop and install monitoring systems for 50 to 100 of the federal government’s highest energy-consuming buildings. Will proving the technology with Uncle Sam boost its market?
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By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready<span style='text-align: left; '> itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.
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What's the potential of the cloud to change building design? A recent webcast offered a high-level view of the opportunities, current struggles and ways in which vendors are trying to bridge the gap.
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Lighting materials firm Intematix takes the wraps off a product called the ChromaLit, which its makers say improves upon the benefits of conventional LEDs by providing higher quality, better-looking, energy efficient light while eliminating key disadvantages.
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The second phase of GE's Ecomagination Challenge -- a call to generate ideas for managing home energy use -- highlights one of three ways companies are scouting out sustainability innovations.
by Eric Lowitt
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Rimutaka prison in New Zealand is using recycled shipping containers to house prisoners as a way to cut costs and accomodate a growing prison population.
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Philips, Osram Sylvania, and GlacialTech Inc. are among the firms recently introducing products for an LED market that's expected soar in the next decade. New research forecasts that LEDs will account for almost half of a $4.4 billion market for lamps in the commercial, industrial and outdoor stationary sectors by 2020 -- and the rivalry is heating up among lighting companies trying capture the lion's share of the business.
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Kohl's Department Stores and hip upcycler TerraCycle are among the winners of the inaugural Edison Green Award Winners, the latest category to be added to the 23-year-old award competition that honors innovative new products and the companies that make them.
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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
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A dozen lighting major lighting manufacturers -- including Philips, Osram, Infineon Technologies, Cooper Lighting and Trilux -- are banding together to develop specifications for the standardization of LED light engines.
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The third annual State of Green Business report, released today by GreenBiz.com, tracks 20 facets of green business operations to measure whether firms are moving the needle toward lower-impact and more planet-friendly operations.
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The Ionator Exp, a hand-held device that turns tap water into a chemical-free cleaning agent, has the become the newest green weapon against germs in the workplace for facilities services company UGL Unicco.
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We have upon us the next Industrial Revolution, where companies who make products that embody energy efficiency now have a worldwide advantage. We can’t let other countries lead the world in this next Industrial Revolution, because this is our calling.
by Kevin Surace
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Dual-flush toilets, the water-saving commodes that typically offer users a choice of a 1.6-gallon or a .8-gallon burst to dispose of waste, can be confusing -- but it doesn't have to be that way, according to the plumbing technology experts at Geberit North America.<br />
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UL Environment plans to develop sustainability standards for stone, ceramic, clay and glass building materials, as well as glazing materials, windows and their associated hardware and accessories.