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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history, says Lester Brown. The challenge is to redesign the materials economy so that it is compatible with nature.
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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers has published a 'GreenGuide' focusing on the 'design, construction, and operation of sustainable buildings.' The guide aims help teach designers how to participate effectively on design teams charged with producing green buildings.
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Xerox scientists have invented an 'erasable paper' -- a way to make prints whose images last only a day, so that the paper can be used again and again.
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Companies are facing accelerating pressures to adopt safer chemicals principles and practices and to cajole, encourage, or force their supply chains to join them. The demands stem both from governments and from leadership companies in the private sector. Corporate strategic planners had better pay attention, lest they get shut out of markets, says Rich Liroff.
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A new national report finds that building 'green' would save an average school $100,000 each year - enough to hire two new additional full-time teachers.
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Green architect Eric Corey Freed answers your questions on sustainable building performance, materials, and design.
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Carpet company Interface, Inc. has launched InterfaceRAISE, a corporate consulting resource that will amplify Interface's efforts to educate others seeking to implement the necessary steps for becoming sustainable.
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Global design firm HOK has entered into a strategic alliance with Advanced Environmental, a specialist environmental division of Australia-based Lincolne Scott consulting engineers, to advance sustainable design expertise and innovation in commercial building projects throughout the U.S.
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Randy Peacock was just 15 years old when he began working for the Melaver family in Savannah, Ga. He was a bag boy at the M&M Supermarket at Abercorn Plaza, a shopping center that was, as third generation CEO Martin Melaver calls it, 'a real high wire act' — the first shopping center development for the family whose roots were in the grocery store business.
by Staff Writer
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is giving its chapters the chance to share their local success stories with the world. In its third year, the USGBC Chapter Award Program recognizes chapters across the U.S. in their green building and market transformation efforts.
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LivingHomes has received the highest rating possible from the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) new pilot, LEED for Homes rating system, making it the first residential project in the country to attain a Platinum rating and setting a new national standard in sustainable construction.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has approved a third alternative in its LEED for Commercial Interiors EQ 4.5 low-emitting furniture credit. Called Option C, it is based on the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association Furniture Emissions Standards for office furniture systems and seating products. <br>
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Green architect Eric Corey Freed answers your questions on sustainable building performance, materials, and design.
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More than half of the world's 500 largest corporations issuing sustainability reports in 2005 say that they want to build and occupy real estate that reflects their values, according to Developing Green: Strategies for Success, a new book published by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP).
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Homes in North Carolina have to cope with America's most violent weather -- hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms that knock out power for days and weeks. All that natural energy gave Wake Forest builder Michael Sykes an idea -- a house that makes its own weather.
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General Motors' new Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant has received a gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program -- the only automotive manufacturing plant in the world to receive LEED certification.
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When it comes to workplace benefits, an overwhelming percentage of U.S. employees are looking for a different kind of green: not just the green in their paycheck, but an environmentally-friendly place to work.
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Seven nonresidential California projects received 2006 Savings By Design Energy Efficiency Integration Awards for combining energy efficiency with outstanding design.
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Will cleantech turn mercenaries into missionaries? By John Elkington and Mark Lee
by Emily Rabin
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Herman Miller, Inc., Texas Instruments and HOK have been named winners of the Sustainable Leadership Awards, an international awards program presented by a consortium of The American Institute of Architects, CoreNet Global and the International Interior Design Association.
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Plantronics' new manufacturing and design center in Suzhou, China, has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification for environmental sustainability. Plantronics Suzhou is the only manufacturing facility in all of China to achieve LEED certification.
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U.S. children are facing serious medical problems as a result of living in unhealthy built environments because poorly designed neighborhoods and buildings, roads, and sidewalks do not foster health, according to the American Public Health Association.
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The new office building is an innovative model for sustainable design, say its designers.
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is forming an alliance of leading global companies to determine how buildings can be designed and constructed so that they use no energy from external power grids, are carbon neutral, and can be built and operated at fair market values.
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Manufacturers of televisions and computers will foot the bill for recycling and safely disposing of their products once they are discarded under a measure signed into law Friday by Gov. Christine Gregoire.