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HOK STRAW BALE For over a decade, straw-bale construction has been growing in popularity among "alternative" house builders. The durable, low-cost, nontoxic, highly insulating, pest-resistant, and potentially structural material is especially practical in hot arid climates. It was used extensively in the treeless grasslands of the U.S. Midwest early in the 20th century.
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LEED GOLD HOSPITAL Because of unusually strict technical, mechanical, and air quality requirements, hospitals are one of the most difficult building types to design sustainably. Yet the Providence Newberg Medical Center by Mahlum Architects has achieved a LEED Gold rating — the first hospital in the United States to do so. It is also the first U.S. hospital to acquire enough renewable electric power to meet all its needs.
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SWEETWATER CREEK Like many other buildings that receive the coveted Platinum-level LEED certification, the Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitors Center, near Lithia Springs, Georgia, features numerous energy conservation measures and has a roof full of photovoltaic cells to generate electricity.
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More Environment AIA Leadership Testifies before House Committees — American Institute of Architects press release, 2007.0516EPA Pushes Green Design in Guam Military Buildup — Saipan Tribune, 2007.0516 China Begins Expanding Its Supertanker Fleet — International Herald Tribune, 2007.0516 Bush Calls for Work for Higher Fuel Efficiency — New York Times, 2007.0515 Scientists Back Off Theory of a Colder Europe in a Warming World — New York Times, 2007.0515 City under Siege — Resident Publications, 2007.0515 Setting a Higher Green Standard — San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0515 Rare Hummingbird Discovered in Colombia — New York Times, 2007.0515 A Google for Green Building Products — Webware, 2007.0515 Treadmill Desk Whittles While You Work — ZDNet, 2007.0515 Project to Develop Smart Homes to Tackle Climate Change — Cordis, 2007.0515 A Giant Takes on Physics’ Biggest Questions — New York Times, 2007.0515 Scotland's Greenest House ? — New Builder, 2007.0515 Development Rises on St. Louis Area Flood Plains — New York Times, 2007.0515 GBI President Testifies before Senate Committee on Environment — Green Building Initiative press release, 2007.0515 Making Your Home a Green House — BBC News, 2007.0514 'Greener Home Policy Is Flawed' — Oxford Mail, 2007.0514 New Solar Panel Promises to Cut Energy Costs in Half — Daily Tech, 2007.0514 Will the Sun Be Stolen by Another Galaxy? — Nature, 2007.0514 Wash. Utility to Build Solar Project — New York Times, 2007.0514 Eco-Friendly and Stylish, Too — Marin Independent Journal, 2007.0514 Membership in Green Building Council Growing Exponentially — San Diego Business Journal, 2007.0514 Climate Talks Face International Hurdles — New York Times, 2007.0514 Las Vegas Builds Sustainable 'Central Park' — ENR, 2007.0514 EPA Giving $71M to Cities to Clean Up Industrial Pollution — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.0514 Slowing Deforestation Key to Climate Fight — Reuters, 2007.0514 China's Yangtze River at Risk of 'Disastrous' Bank Collapses — International Herald Tribune, 2007.0514 Scientists Plead for Protection of Forests — The Globe and Mail, 2007.0514 Smart Building Becomes Standard Practice at Public Schools — San Diego Business Journal, 2007.0514 Brownfield for Brown as Plans for Eco-Homes Unveiled — Hot Property News, 2007.0513 Brown to Build Five Eco Towns — U.K. Times, 2007.0513 New Eco-Towns to Ease House Crisis — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0513 Green Envy — San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0513 New Eco-Towns to Ease House Crisis — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0513 Endangered Species Can Call Even Major Building Developers to Heel — Telegraph, 2007.0512 A Garden in the Sky — San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0512 New Tower Creates All Its Own Energy — Spiegel, 2007.0511 Green Building Tax Breaks Too Costly for State Budget — In Business Las Vegas, 2007.0511 Yellowknife Building Uses Photovoltaic System — Daily Commcercial News and Construction Record, 2007.0511 LEEDing on Formaldehyde in California — Healthy Building News, 2007.0511 Exhibition Offers Visions of Future Intelligent Homes — Jewish Journal, 2007.0511 Shops and Offices to Go Zero Carbon — Building Design, 2007.0511 Greener Is Better — Revitalization Online, 2007.0510 Foster + Partners to Create the World's First Zero Carbon City — World Architecture News, 2007.0510 IPCC Report: A Call for U.S. Lawmakers to Act — Renewable Energy Access, 2007.0510 Green Group Urges Ban on Energy-Wasting Light Bulbs — PlanetSave, 2007.0510 Pitt's Green Building Project Begins — WTOP News, 2007.0510 Solar One to Honor the US Green Building Council — AZoBuild, 2007.0510 3M Guarantees Product Won't Be Banned — Environmental Building News, 2007.0509 Measuring Solar Access with the Solmetric SunEye — Environmental Building News, 2007.0509 Wind Turbines Not a Threat to U.S. Bird Population — Renewable Energy Access, 2007.0507 Pushing for Green by 2030 — Calgary Herald, 2007.0505 Digging Deep, Building Strong - Rammed Earth for the Ages — AIArchitect, 2007.0504 U.S. Environment Satellites in Jeopardy: Scientists — Scientific American, 2007.0502
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