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GEN'S TORRI SUPERIORE Perched like a fortress in the foothills of the Liguria maritime alps, the tiny Italian hamlet of Torri Superiore may seem an unlikely flagship in the search for sustainable solutions in architecture, landscape, and lifestyle. But a closer look into this labyrinth of stone dwellings reveals a community working hard to find workable solutions to what many see as a looming global energy famine.
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LEED GOLD ELDER LIVING As "green" principles begin to take hold in U.S. firms, those architects who have been following them the longest are demonstrating a refined and diverse understanding of what "sustainability" means to a building's occupants. For the NBBJ design team for the Washington State Veterans' Home, sustaining the elderly inhabitants' quality of life was a key component of the design intent.
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More Environment Copper, Glass and Lots of Class — Kansas City Star, 2006.0830New Baseball Park, Courthouse Will Be Ecologically Sound — Columbus Dispatch, 2006.0830 REI’s Pittsburgh Store Receives LEED Silver Rating — REI Press Release, 2006.0830 A Model for the Future — The Journal-News, 2006.0830 By Definition Can Urban Redevelopment Be Sustainable? — Planetizen, 2006.0830 Deep-Sea Oil Rigs Inspire MIT Designs for Wind Turbines — PhysOrg, 2006.0830 Local Solar Firm Sees Its Business Heating Up — Inside Bay Area, 2006.0829 Acid Rain Affects One-Third of China — Mongabay, 2006.0828 New Firm Looks for Green From Its Green Database — ENR, 2006.0828 Waterstudio’s Flood-Resistant Architecture — Inhabitat, 2006.0828 Earth-Friendly Design — Christianity Today, 2006.0828 Finding ‘Green’ Builders Might Leave You Feeling Blue — Columbus Dispatch, 2006.0827 Learning How to Build Green — PhillyBurbs.com, 2006.0824 New Insurance Policies Emerging to Tackle Climate Losses — GreenBiz.com, 2006.0823 Radiant Heat — Eureka Reporter, 2006.0823 College Campuses Are Going Green — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0823 Green Building 101: Eco-Power! — Inhabitat, 2006.0823 Cardiff Eco Home Wins a Prize — Green Building, 2006.0823 Deadline Looms for University Students' Housing Project — Cambridge Times, 2006.0822 Turning Green into Gold — Loveland FYI, 2006.0821 Turning Green into Gold — Loveland FYI, 2006.0821 Greening Up the Vail Valley — Vail Trail, 2006.0821 His Designs Tread Lightly on the Earth — Miami Herald, 2006.0820 Green Gains Steam — Wichita Eagle, 2006.0820 Architecture for Humanity Launches Model Home Program — World Changing, 2006.0819 Nine Selected in "House for an Ecologist Ideas Competition" — AIArchitect, 2006.0818 National Building Museum Expands "Green House" Programming — Interior Design, 2006.0818 Green Isn't Just a Color When It Comes to Roofs — Star-Tribune, 2006.0818 Going Green Gets Thumbs Up at Meetings — Toronto Star, 2006.0817 Lab Uses Green Office as Guinea Pig — Idaho Statesman, 2006.0817 Environmentally Smart Design, Powered by Hollywood — Washington Post, 2006.0816 Grass Isn't Greener — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0816
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