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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 Architects Urged to Copy India — BBC News, 2004.0908Kansas City's 'Green' Arena Could Be the Envy of Others — Ledger-Enquirer, 2004.0907 Roof Gardens: Looking Good, Saving Money — Boston Globe, 2004.0906 Pushback on Green Technology — BDC, 2004.0901 Good Green Fun — Independent Digital, 2004.0901 Battling for the Environment — Warsaw Business Journal, 2004.0830 A 'Green' School Saves on Costs of Energy — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2004.0830 Team to Design Florida’s First LEED Gold Building — AIArchitect, 2004.0830 Envision Design Is LEED-Friendly — Interior Design, 2004.0830 NREL Praised for Efforts in Sustainable Pollution Prevention — National Renewable Energy Laboratory press release, 2004.0826 United Solar Ovonic BIPV System Energizes New California School — United Solar Ovonic press release, 2004.0826 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 Ecobuild America Announces New Green Building Conference — Ecobuild America press release, 2004.0818 Tokyo's 'Heat Island' Keeps Breezes at Bay — Japan Times Online, 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 Taming the Asphalt Jungle — Skyway News, 2004.0809 Nuns' Retreat Center Gets 'Green' Additions — Conta Costa Times, 2004.0808
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