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Portland of the Fee
Portland, Ore., will pay builders to build green |
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09 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:07 PM on 09 Nov 2007 Portland, Ore., has unveiled an innovative plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The city will require an energy-efficiency inspection of new homes, then levy a tax on builders who have merely complied with Oregon's efficiency requirements. Builders who construct homes 30 percent more efficient than the state building code requires will escape the fee; those who go above and beyond, with cons ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, energy, energy efficiency, green building, innovation, news, placemaking, Portland (all these topics) |
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Fun Guys
Two recent college grads make insulation using mushroom spores |
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11 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Fun Guys Two recent college grads make insulation using mushroom spores Let's play a word game: we say "college students" and "mushrooms," you say the first thing that comes to mind. OK, now get ready to eat your words, because two recent Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grads are having a different kind of fun with their fungi. Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre used mushroom spores to create a new ... |
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| Topics: energy, green building, innovation, news (all these topics) |
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