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ON NOT COOKING CLIENTS On a recent trip to Havana, Cuba, I observed colonial architecture with characteristic thick adobe walls and naturally ventilated courtyards that were cool and comfortable, in marked contrast to the hot and humid conditions outside the building.
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LITERALLY GREEN FACADES "Facade greening" is essentially the use of a living — and therefore self-regenerating — cladding system for buildings in which climbing plants, or in some cases trained shrubs, cover the surface of a building. Climbers can dramatically reduce the maximum temperatures of a building by shading walls from the sun. They can reduce the daily temperature fluctuation by as much as 50 percent, a fact of great importance in warm-summer climate zones.
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More Environment Environmentally Conscious Development — New York Times, 2004.0825Cuba School Serves as Model for Energy Cost Savings — Daily Ledger, 2004.0824 Architect Hired for Nature Center — Joplin Globe, 2004.0823 It Grows in Brooklyn: It’s Not a Tree, but It’s Green — New York Times, 2004.0822 Cities Bloom with Rooftop Gardens — North Shore News, 2004.0822 Tokyo's 'Heat Island' Keeps Breezes at Bay — Japan Times Online, 2004.0818 Ecobuild America Announces New Green Building Conference — Ecobuild America press release, 2004.0818 Solar Power Will Do Double Duty — AZ Central, 2004.0816 Sedums Grow in Downtown Washington — AIArchitect, 2004.0816 Organic Architect: Banning GE Crops, Recycling PCs — San Francisco Chronicle, 2004.0811 Reconciling Eco-Ethics and Aesthetics — Design Philosophy Papers, 2004.0810 Kyocera to Begin Solar Product Manufacturing in North America — Kyocera Solar press release, 2004.0810 Taming the Asphalt Jungle — Skyway News, 2004.0809 Nuns' Retreat Center Gets 'Green' Additions — Conta Costa Times, 2004.0808 Lean and Green: Natural Foods Co-op's New Elk Grove Store — Sacramento Bee, 2004.0807 Green on the Home Turf — Business Line, 2004.0806 Rural Planning Reforms 'Weaken Protection of Quality Farmland' — Scotsman Online, 2004.0803 National Arbor Day Foundation Honors Builders and Developers — NAHB, 2004.0802 Environmentalists Can Call This Home — New York Times, 2004.0801 Shaw Exits PVC Backing — Environmental Building News, 2004.08 New Data on the Cost of Building Green — Environmental Building News, 2004.08 Finding Out a Home's Green Credentials — Cumberland News, 2004.0730 Green Building Faces Heady Future, Continuing Challenges — Con.Web, 2004.0729 Rocky Mountain Institute Joins Chicago Climate Exchange — GreenBiz.com, 2004.0728
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