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Heads You Lose On replacing toilets	Umbra Fisk	09 Jul 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm selling my house in Los Angeles and my toilet is not low-flow. One of the inspectors is trying to tell me I need to replace my toilet with a new low-flow. Well, I know the old ziplock baggie filled with water trick. But I saw that you made mention of some kits to reduce the flow from 3.5 gallons per flush to 1.6 gallons a flush. I believe in recycling. I don't feel that I have to replace my working toilet. Can I modify ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, green building, green living (all these topics)

Can't ... look ... away ...	David Roberts	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I'm told there's a story attached to that picture at the top, but I can't seem to get past it. My cute-o-meter is pegging.
Topics: business, green building, green products (all these topics)

Fun Guys Two recent college grads make insulation using mushroom spores		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 ...
Topics: energy, green building, innovation, news (all these topics)

Check Baby Check Baby One Two ... 300 Wachovia, fourth-largest U.S. bank, plans to build 300 green branches		01 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Check Baby Check Baby One Two ... 300 Wachovia, fourth-largest U.S. bank, plans to build 300 green branches The fourth-largest bank in the U.S. will build only green branches by the end of 2008, aiming for 300 eco-friendly offices by 2010. Wachovia, based in Charlotte, N.C., is expanding into California and will begin its green experiment there. It is also seeking LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Cou ...
Topics: business, climate, green building, news (all these topics)

Two Green Builders Take Trains Leaving From Different Stations... U.S. schools betting on benefits of going green		29 May 2007	Daily Grist
Two Green Builders Take Trains Leaving From Different Stations... U.S. schools betting on benefits of going green When we were kids, the only thing green about our schools was the vomit-hued paint on the bathroom walls. But times change, and these days, schools across the U.S. are incorporating green features that save money, improve student performance, and help protect the planet. The trend is ...
Topics: education, green building, green living, news, placemaking (all these topics)

File under: dubious accomplishments	David Roberts	20 May 2007	Gristmill
New York Times Magazine manages the somewhat astounding feat of conducting a thoroughly boring interview with Bill McDonough, one of the most interesting people on the planet.
Topics: Bill McDonough, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Clinton foundation energy efficiency plan: An offset by any other name ... New financial instruments may one day plug cities' building codes into global carbon market	Adam Stein	17 May 2007	Gristmill
The William J. Clinton foundation has arranged billions in financing to help a coalition of sixteen cities cut urban emissions by applying a range of energy efficiency measures to aging buildings. Efficiency measures tends to get lumped in under the heading of conservation, but they really deserve to be their own full-fledged category of solutions to global warming. If conservation is simply doing less of a polluting activity, efficiency is doing the same activity with ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, carbon offsets, energy, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

LEED competition	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Speaking of green building, it looks like LEED may be facing some competition: Lake Oswego-based Green Building Initiative, a nonprofit formed in 2004 with money from the timber industry, is bringing a popular Canadian sustainability program to America. ... Green Building's leaders argue that the U.S. edition of Green Globes is Web-based, interactive and inexpensive when compared with LEED certification. They claim LEED certification is a challenging undertaking ...
Topics: Canada, green building, New York, placemaking (all these topics)

In the green building trenches Developing ideas on development	Kif Scheuer	09 May 2007	Gristmill
Hats off to GreenbuildingsNYC, who beat me to the punch on a couple of items that seem important to future green development. First, there's a piece by Professor Charles Kibert that critiques a recent report on the benefits of green schools. It is notable for a couple of reasons. First, his analysis asks some important questions about this particular report's benefit claims. Second, through this analysis he critiques the lack of critical review and high research stan ...
Topics: green building, Nevada, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Water is more precious than gold Material intensity in water use	Gar Lipow	08 May 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) Before discussing water savings, we need to define what we mean by 'use.' The EPA refers to withdrawal and consumption. Withdrawal is the amount taken from surface water and the water table. Consumption refers to the amount chemically combined with something (so that it is no longer fresh water) or evaporated. Water discarded instead of consumed is referred to as 'returns,' because it is supposedly reusable. This does not even ...
Topics: agriculture, green building, green living, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

Spitzer and Polish New York governor's mansion gets an eco-facelift		03 May 2007	Daily Grist
Spitzer and Polish New York governor's mansion gets an eco-facelift You know, we've been thinking about eco-remodeling our 39-room mansion, and now New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his wife Silda Wall Spitzer are providing inspiration. The couple plans to green the governor's residence in Albany, which was built in 1875 and has housed such luminaries as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Nelson A. Ro ...
Topics: energy efficiency, green building, green living, New York, news (all these topics)

The eco-chamber An interview with Julia Russell of the Eco-Home Network	Kate Sheppard	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Gristmill commenter Lo Fleming posted a good Q&A with Julia Russell of the Eco-Home Network recently over on her blog. Check it out.
Topics: green building, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Top 10 U.S. green buildings	David Roberts	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The American Institute of Architects has put together a list of the top ten green buildings in the U.S. Here they are, in alphabetical order: EpiCenter, Artists for Humanity / Boston, MA Arrowstreet Inc. Global Ecology Research Center / Stanford, CA EHDD Architects Government Canyon Visitor Center / Helotes, TX Lake/Flato Architects Hawaii Gateway Energy Center / Kailua-Kona, HI Ferraro Choi and Associates Heifer International / ...
Topics: green building, placemaking (all these topics)

A quick partial overview of green building techniques	Gar Lipow	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) What follows is a table with a (very) incomplete list of means of reducing material intensity in building. These means alone could reduce the impact of constructing buildings by about 75 percent or more, and thus greenhouse-gas emissions from construction and destruction of buildings by about half. Since we have green builders on this site, I invite additions to the list, especially if you can cite sources for impact reduc ...
Topics: green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Super-adobe Using earth to save the earth	Gar Lipow	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) In my last post on material intensity, I mentioned green building as an example of how to indirectly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, before building one wind turbine or making one factory more efficient. Because green building is more familiar than most types of material intensity reduction, I'll use it for my first examples.After all, building construction worldwide uses about 40% of mineral and metal products, and 25% of for ...
Topics: green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Material intensity Indirect greenhouse-gas savings	Gar Lipow	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) Previously I pointed out that efficiency, doing more with less, is a key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (A lot of people on Gristmill are fans of conservation, doing less with less. I have nothing against this, so long as it is a voluntary choice, but I won't be spending a lot of time on it.) Normally, when people think of efficiency they think of direct savings -- insulating homes, electric cars, and so on. That is: ma ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Green building and architecture, all in one place	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In one of his vintage ginormo-posts, Big Gav at Peak Energy rounds up seemingly every cool story on green building and green architecture published on the web in the last few months -- along with other bits and piece of interest on micro-wind turbines, optimistic green books, efficient air conditioners, and more. You could spend two hours just browsing this one post, I'm telling you. Beware.
Topics: green building, placemaking (all these topics)

CO2's lowest hanging fruit? We're inside it	Kif Scheuer	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
We all know buildings are part of the global warming problem, but many people don't recognize how central they are to the solution. A recent UNEP report -- 'Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges and Opportunities' -- shines light on how relevant and accessible building-related climate change solutions are. Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: By some conservative estimates, the building sector world-wide could deliver ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

See me in Seattle	Gar Lipow	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I'm giving a presentation Wed., Mar 28 to the Green Builders Guild on Solutions to climate chaos for Green builders, homeowners, and citizens. Location below the fold.Wed. Mar 28. 7:00 P.M. Phinney Neighborhood Association 6532 Phinney Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98103
Topics: climate, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Gettin' dirty ... With eco-friendly earthen floors	Sarah van Schagen	09 Feb 2007	Gristmill
I'm all for green building -- especially when it involves eco-renovations that take into account more than just some CFL bulbs and a solar panel. But dirt floors?It's a growing trend, according to a piece in the NYT yesterday. The 'earthen floors' are primarily made of mud, but may also include other materials like lime, sand, or fiber -- but let's not forget they're primarily made of mud. As in dirt. Yeah.[Homeowners installing earthen floors] are part of a new br ...
Topics: green building, green living (all these topics)

Hood Games: Stop clearcutting the youth	Chris Schults	04 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Over at Treehugger TV, there is a new video about Comet Skateboards (a green 'board manufacturing company) and their community event, Hood Games: In addition to raising funds and for a sustainably designed skate park in downtown Oakland CA, Comet has collaborated with others to put on Hood Games. Hood Games 4 took place in Oakland, and brought together a truly remarkable gathering of the skateboarders, parents, and friends for a full day of music, art, and of course ...
Topics: California, green building, sports, TV, websites (all these topics)

Green Building 101	David Roberts	29 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Yesterday, Inhabitat started a weekly series for the summer called Green Building 101. The series is focused mainly on LEED-H, the (developing) green standards for homes. It also mentions LEED-ND, the (developing) green standards for neighborhoods, which I'm super jazzed about. The series will walk through the basics of building or renovating a home for maximum eco-friendliness. Should be cool. Check out the first installment, about choosing an eco-friendly site.
Topics: green building, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Dig This: My two cents on partnerships The AIA and BuildingGreen team up	Sarah K. Burkhalter	07 Mar 2006	Gristmill
If only life was like Monopoly. A straightforward path to follow ... unexpected money windfalls ... all those little green houses ... Well, I can't bring you a definitive life path, or bestow a pot of money on you for landing on Go, but I can report on a potential step toward a greener housing market. A new agreement between the American Institute of Architects and indie publishing company BuildingGreen, Inc. allows the AIA's 77,000 members to quickly and easily ...
Topics: green building (all these topics)

Dig This: My two cents on Earthships In New Mexico, natch	Sarah K. Burkhalter	28 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Today's Dig This spotlights Earthship Biotecture,which has two websites with virtually the same information, laid out different ways. It's just one of the many quirks of the Taos, N.M.-based organization, which makes cool eco-houses and is located a mere seven hours from Roswell. I'm just saying. The basic Earthship home prototype is made of recycled tires, packed with earth to the point of being 'virtually indestructible.' But they don't have to be made of tire ...
Topics: green building (all these topics)

Dig This: My two cents on an eco-building TV program Building green while sitting on your couch	Sarah K. Burkhalter	21 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Photo: BuildingGreenIn case you have forgotten -- it's been a long week, with a holiday, hooray! -- last week's Dig This claimed that I will use my weekly soapbox here to promote house-related stuff that's affordable to the average human being. Well, today's column is aimed at the average human being that owns a TV. If you are one of these lucky folk, you too can tune in to PBS this summer for the first-of-its-kind Building Green: During the first season of 'Bu ...
Topics: green building, TV (all these topics)

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