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AMSTERDAM GASWORKS REBORN In recent years there has been a growing concern about "brownfield" projects. As these abandoned industrial sites are converted back into productive use, governments and local communities must often work together to mitigate the polluted environment and revitalize the surrounding neighborhoods. In many brownfield projects the property is sold as real estate to be redeveloped. Buildings are torn down and a whole new development constructed, leaving no trace of the site's past.
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RECYCLING CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS With $100 billion in new construction each year in the United States, and $126 billion in renovations, the recovery of materials from construction and demolition (C&D) has important economic and environmental implications. To the extent that the debris from construction and demolition can be reused or recycled rather than thrown away, demand for virgin resources is reduced, the embedded energy in these materials is recaptured, and the need for increasingly limited landfill space is reduced.
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More Environment Protesters March to Gehry Office — Yahoo News, 2001.100410 Ways To Fight High Heating Bills This Winter — Building Online, 2001.1009 Solar Shootout — Power Report, 2001.1007 Proceedings From Successful Strategies Unlimited First Conference On Solar Electric Building Now Available — Press Release at Yahoo, 2001.1004 NREL Research Teams Win Three R&D 100 Awards — National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2001.1004 Scientists Eyeing Organic Molecules To Get Solar Energy — Power Report, 2001.0927 Convention Center Will Feature Innovative Daylighting System — Architectural Record, 2001.09 Edition Living In Green Houses — This Is London, 2001.1003 The Case for a Green Aesthetic — Metropolis, 2001.10 Edition Valley Forward Selects Top Environmental Projects — Phoenix Business Journal, 2001.0928 Facilities See Red Over Boom In Green Rules, Says GAO Report — ENR, 2001.0918 Every Londoner Must Have Access To Green Space And Nature, Says Mayor — Architects' Journal, 2001.0925 Historic Building Honored for Energy Conservation — PR Newswire at Excite, 2001.0920 Creating New, Sky-High Power — Wired, 2001.0918 Call For Green Revolution In Agricultural Buildings — Scotsman Online, 2001.0916 Disaster Site Divided Up For Cleanup — ENR, 2001.0914 Energy Dept. Funds 4 Teams To Develop Zero Energy Homebuilding — Building Online, 2001.0911 Meaningful Brownfields Legislation Must Address Petroleum Sites and Liability Issues — NAHB, 2001.0910 Is This The End Of The Road For The Big New House? — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0909
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