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Green building is the new black
Rising hopes for 2008 |
Katharine Wroth |
03 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Remember how, way back in 2007, green was the new black? Watch for a new new black in 2008: green building. The press is gushing with green-building news: According to a report from the American Institute of Architects, the number of cities with green-building programs has increased 418 percent since 2003, and AIA -- which has issued a list of 50 strategies for reducing buildings' fossil-fuel consumption 50 percent by 2010 -- says more cities are on track to ... |
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| Topics: green building, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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The greening of Greensburg
How one small town in Kansas is turning disaster into progress |
Maywa Montenegro |
28 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| There wasn't much to be happy about on today's media spectrum. So I thought I'd share one heartwarming story about one Kansas town's efforts to pick up the pieces after a devastating tornado:Townhomes are beginning to rise from the ragged tree trunks, weeds and ruins off Main Street. They mark a radical departure from traditional low-income housing, according to Duncan Trahl, who is from Pennsylvania and on contract with the National Renewable Energy Labs.The to ... |
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| Topics: green building, Kansas, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Building Anticipation
Portland, Ore., green-building plan will be delayed |
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27 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:17 PM on 27 Dec 2007 Portland, Ore., proposed an ambitious green-building plan last month that was to go before voters in January. But the building and real-estate industries were taken aback by the announcement and have expressed concerns; City Commissioner Dan Saltzman now hopes to have a draft before the city council in three to six months. source: The Oregonian From the Archives ... |
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| Topics: green building, news, placemaking, Portland (all these topics) |
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Financing green building and retrofits
A public policy silver bullet that's available to fight global warming today |
David Roberts |
17 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Steve Heckeroth's piece "Solar is the solution" has been recommended all over the green blogosphere, first by Robert Rapier, I think. It's great reading, but I wanted to hone in on one thing he mentions -- a piece of public policy that has been woefully under-hyped. To wit: with today's technology, we know how to make new buildings net energy generators, and we know how to retrofit existing buildings to reduce their energy consumption by well over 50%, in s ... |
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| Topics: green building, placemaking, energy (all these topics) |
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Are You From Tennessee? 'Cause You're the Only Ten I See
Al Gore's home meets LEED Gold standard |
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14 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 11:32 AM on 14 Dec 2007 Al Gore has finished efficiency renovations on his much-maligned Tennessee home. Solar panels, rainwater collection, geothermal heating, and non-incandescent light bulbs have helped the abode earn a LEED Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. source: Associated Press From the Archives Deliverance. Green group ranks eco-friendline ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, green building, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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You Win Some, You Newsom
San Francisco mayor proposes strict green-building standards |
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13 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 5:14 PM on 13 Dec 2007 San Francisco would have the most stringent green-building standards in the U.S. if the city Board of Supervisors adopts a new measure proposed yesterday by Mayor Gavin Newsom. By 2012, Newsom wants all new residential buildings over 75 feet tall, commercial buildings of more than 5,000 square feet, and renovations on buildings of more than 25,000 square feet to be certified by ... |
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| Topics: green building, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Greening public housing
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David Roberts |
10 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Clinton Global Initiative is arranging to have banks finance green retrofits of NYC public housing. CGI is, for my money, one of the most interesting groups figuring out practical, post-ideological solutions to climate change. |
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| Topics: green building, New York, New York City, placemaking (all these topics) |
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The gallery of gingerbread photos is up
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Roz Cummins |
04 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Click here if you want to see details of the gingerbread eco-house. |
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| Topics: food, green building, holiday (all these topics) |
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Right Club
Brad Pitt wants you -- to help with his NOLA green-building project |
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03 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:27 PM on 03 Dec 2007 Brad Pitt -- OMG he's so dreamy! Sorry, reflex. Where were we? Brad Pitt today unveiled designs submitted by architecture firms for his Make It Right campaign to build 150 affordable, sustainable, storm-safe houses in New Orleans. Architects were asked to design a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom house for about $150,000. Pitt also unveiled a display of pink fabric "houses" ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green building, green living, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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The Gingerbread Diaries
Building an eco-home from a favorite holiday sweet |
Roz Cummins |
29 Nov 2007 |
'Tis the Season |
| When my friend Deanna told me that she wanted to make a gingerbread house this year -- and, in particular, to do so on Black Friday, aka Buy Nothing Day -- I immediately asked if we could make an environmentally sound house. The chances of my ever being able to afford the real-life eco-house of my dreams are slim unless I win the lottery, but I figured I could at least afford the gingerbread ver ... |
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| Topics: food, green building, green living, holiday, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics) |
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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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The Only Thing We Have to Sears Is Sears Itself
Clinton, Daley to green Sears Tower, other Chicago landmarks |
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08 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 8:42 AM on 08 Nov 2007 The tallest building in North America is officially going green, along with a few of its Windy City counterparts. At a green building expo in Chicago yesterday, former President Bill Clinton and eterna-Mayor Richard Daley announced a partnership to retrofit landmarks including the Sears Tower and the Merchandise Mart, the nation's largest commercial cente ... |
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| Topics: Chicago, climate, energy, green building, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Efficiency U.
Colleges and universities team up with Clinton Global Initiative to green their campuses |
David Roberts |
07 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This morning, at the US Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference, hosted by Greenbuild 365, Bill Clinton made a significant announcement: Signatories to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment -- of which there are 427 at last count -- will join the purchasing pool for energy efficient products and services that was established by the Clinton Global Initiative (originally involving the C40 cities, but expanded this week ... |
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| Topics: green building, education, Bill Clinton (all these topics) |
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The House That Love Un-Built
Green un-building catching on in the U.S. |
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18 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 12:14 PM on 18 Oct 2007 What's the opposite of green building? Green un-building (aka, deconstruction)! And it's catching on in the United States in that if-you-have-the-time-and-money-and-inclination kind of way. About 245,000 houses are torn town in the U.S. each year and roughly 1,000 of them are carefully deconstructed with up to 85 percent of their parts going to other projects or getting recycled. The remains ... |
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| Topics: green building, green living, news, United States (all these topics) |
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They've got solar
Solar decathlon underway in D.C. |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Solar Decathlon is underway on the National Mall this week, and Inhabitat's got some great coverage, including a Flickr set of the fully solar-powered homes built by university students. |
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| Topics: energy, green building, solar voltaic power, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Home Sexy Home
Brad Pitt pledges $5 million for green homes in New Orleans |
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27 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 6:47 AM on 27 Sep 2007 At the third annual Clinton Global Initiative philanthropic soiree yesterday, actor Brad Pitt pledged $5 million in matching funds to build about 150 green homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, one of the most troubled areas in the city. "We're going to help make it right with 150 sustainable, affordable houses -- houses that stand out for their design both aesthetical ... |
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| Topics: green building, news, solar thermal power, United States (all these topics) |
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Not just a pretty face
Brad Pitt pledges millions for sustainable rebuilding of New Orleans |
Joseph Romm |
26 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Brad turns out to be as serious (on climate) as he is good looking. He came to the first CGI as an observer, not a speaker. But today he announced a major commitment: Brad Pitt expanded his commitment to New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward today by announcing plans for a new community of homes in the area hardest-hit by the worst natural disaster in American history. He is partnering with Steve Bing in creating the 150 affordable and sustainable homes, which are t ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green building, Louisiana, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Seeking reader opinions
Should USGBC certify a 15,000-sq.-ft. home as green? |
Joseph Romm |
20 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A 'speculative 15,000 square foot mansion in Manalapan, Fla., will be the first home of its size to be certified green by the U.S. Green Building Council and the Florida Green Building Council.' Is that a good idea for USGBC? That's my question to you. Obviously people are going to build big homes -- and it is better if they have green features. But should USGBC single out such 'eco-mansions' for positive recognition? On the big side, the mansion has: ... ei ... |
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| Topics: Florida, green building, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Discover Brilliant: Renewables and buildings
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David Roberts |
17 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Now it's "Moving the Technology Frontier," about technologies that are going to create "tectonic shifts" in the cleantech space, with Stan Bull, head of R&D at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Steve Selkowtiz, Building Technologies Program Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Bull is first up. Says NREL's budget is $200-$250 million. That seems tiny to me. Makes the point that available solar energy dwarfs what is avail ... |
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| Topics: electricity grid, energy, green building, renewable energy, tech (all these topics) |
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The present the whole world needs
With more 'zero-zero' buildings, maybe we could still have cake now and then |
JMG |
16 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This story appeared on my birthday (a prime number year). I'll consider it my present. |
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| Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green building (all these topics) |
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Because I know Grist readers love them
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David Roberts |
13 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Green mansions! |
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| Topics: green building, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Teach Your Children Well
Schools across the U.S. go green |
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11 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:10 AM on 11 Sep 2007 Perhaps in an attempt to prepare students for an eco-college experience, many elementary, middle, and high schools are getting in on the green-building trend. Sixty schools across the U.S. have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, and 360 more are waiting to have applications approved; in 2000, only four schools applied for certification. The new generation of educational edifices boasts fea ... |
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| Topics: education, green building, green living, news (all these topics) |
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No Looking Back
Los Angeles Times series looks at NOLA's rebuilding effort two years later |
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30 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| No Looking Back Los Angeles Times series looks at NOLA's rebuilding effort two years later The two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is a largely grim occasion, but a Los Angeles Times series has found cause for inspiration. In a 10-story installment, the paper appraises the rebuilding effort in New Orleans and the innovation it has sparked -- particularly in ... |
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| Topics: green building, innovation, Louisiana, news, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Mmmm ... low-hanging fruit
Building professionals overestimate costs and underestimate benefits of green building |
David Roberts |
27 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A new study (PDF) from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development finds that folks in the real estate and construction businesses overestimate the cost of building green by 300%. Specifically, the 1,400 professionals surveyed across the globe estimated that: green building costs 17% more than normal building, when the reality is 5%, and greenhouse gases from buildings are 19% of the global total, when the reality is 40%. Got that? People in ... |
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| Topics: green building, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Green goes the Lower Ninth
The Nation reports on sustainable revitalization of the New Orleans neighborhood |
Grist |
23 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This article by Rebecca Solnit is reprinted from the Sept. 10, 2007 issue of The Nation, released today, which focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two years later. Solnit is the author of a dozen books, including, most recently, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. ----- The word 'will' comes up constantly in the Lower Ninth Ward now; 'We Will Rebuild' is spray-painted onto empty houses; 'it will happen,' one organizer told me. Will itself ... |
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| Topics: energy, green building, Louisiana, placemaking, solar voltaic power, urban planning, wetlands (all these topics) |
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