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REMODELING NATURALLY Many people start a home remodeling project by designing an addition and selecting finish materials. But if your goal is to live in harmony with nature, you need to begin with something more basic: a personal strategy for weaving your needs together with the natural elements available at your site.
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BUILDING POTENTIAL In the rolling hills just east of Austin, Texas, a small compound of experimental buildings makes up the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS). Here, Pliny Fisk III, his partner Gail Vittori, and a cadre of researchers and interns explore the depths of sustainable building.
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UNSUSTAINABLE "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This definition was written 20 years ago in the Brundtland Report, commissioned by the United Nations. Since then, the goal of sustainable urban development has been embraced, in theory, by many officials and design professionals all over the world. But examples of meeting today's needs seem limited to the more prosperous segments of society. Living conditions today in the slums of many of the world's largest cities are appalling, and not improving. — Editor
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More Environment Australia to Ban Old-Style Light Bulbs — New York Times, 2007.0220Cornish Green Village Mooted — New Builder, 2007.0220 Global Warming Scientist Is Encouraged — Sci-Tech Today, 2007.0220 Building a Green Future — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0219 Green Living — MSNBC, 2007.0219 Edouard Francois: Urban Chameleon — Cafe Babel, 2007.0219 The Greening of Graying Buildings — New York Times, 2007.0218 Environmentalists Protest Plans for Rare Peat Bog in Poland — International Herald Tribune, 2007.0218 New Towers Paint the Town Green — Toronto Star, 2007.0218 Sustainable Development in the Gulf Region — The Media Line, 2007.0218 Some Homes in Central Oregon May Get 'Green' Label — The Oregonian, 2007.0218 Europe Can Do More on Climate Change - UNEP Head — Reuters, 2007.0217 Court: Logging Permit Violates Owl Protection — WorldLink, 2007.0217 How Green Is My Bungalow? — Dallas Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2007.0217 Designer Living — Courier Mail, 2007.0217 Is This the City of the Future? — Hamilton Spectator, 2007.0217 It's Green Simply Because We Say It's Green! — Opinion at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0217 Weyerhaeuser to Shed Building Materials Wholesalers — Register-Guard, 2007.0217 Warming Up to Newsprint — Missoulan, 2007.0217 Vancouver City Planners Seeing Green — The Globe and Mail, 2007.0217 Architecture 2030 Recommends Climate Change Legislation — Green Building Initiative press release, 2007.0216 Teaching an Old House New Tricks — The Globe and Mail, 2007.0216 RMI Helps Hawaii Update Its Energy Strategy — Rocky Mountain Institute Newsletter, 2007.0216 Metro Launches Building Materials Exchange Online — Dolan Media Company, 2007.0216 Eco-Homes Planned for Epsom Hospital Sites — 24Dash, 2007.0216 Organic Food Merits Green Design — Business Week, 2007.0216 Green Design on a Roll — E Magazine, 2007.0216 Canada Gov't Relents, Says Will Obey Pro-Kyoto Law — National Post, 2007.0216 Tire Reef Off Florida Proves a Disaster — San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0216 The Magic of Windows: Glazed, but Not Confused — Rocky Mountain Institute Newsletter, 2007.0216 Green? Just Do It — Coastal Living, 2007.0216 Building for the Future — Hour, 2007.0215 Dying for a Home: Toxic Trailers Make Katrina Refugees Ill — Alternet, 2007.0215 Green Monster? BAR Vote Highlights Doubts over 201 Avon — The Hook, 2007.0215 Scientists Find Lakes under Antarctica — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0215 Homes Blend Eco-Friendliness, Unique Design — Sierra Sun, 2007.0215 San Diego Community a Model for Green Building — San Diego Daily Transcript, 2007.0215 January Weather Hottest by Far — Newsday, 2007.0215 Ottawa Builder Honoured for Green Housing in Manotick — Ottawa Business Journal, 2007.0215 Sodding for Sustainability on Campus Rooftops — Daily Trojan, 2007.0215 With New Port, China Aims for Cleaner Development — Reuters, 2007.0214 Measuring the Uncertainty of Climate Change — MIT Technology Review, 2007.0214 Building 'Green' — Toronto Sun, 2007.0214 Architects Urge Congress to Establish New Energy Standards — American Institute of Architects press release, 2007.0214 Green Buildings Need More Incentives in U.S. — Reuters, 2007.0213 U.S. Green Building Council Goes Platinum: New Headquarters — U.S. Green Building Council press release, 2007.0213 Leading Nations Sign Climate Deal — Nature, 2007.0212 Transforming Los Angeles into a Sustainable City — World Changing (blog), 2007.0212 Research Center Seeks Participants for Green Standards Committee — National Association of Home Builders, 2007.0209 Living in a State of Exponential Delusion — BusinessDay, 2007.0207
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