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MILWAUKEE'S URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER The Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee simply radiates with a special kind of beauty, from the inside out. It's a charming, efficient, respectful, and delightful structure, and more. It's a community building whose building has helped build a community.
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The sedum roofs of today symbolize performance-oriented green roof design. Like fine-tuned engines, they run on leaner artificial substrates with almost no organic matter; volcanic rock or expanded shale, baked at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit (1093 degrees Celsius), make the substrates lighter and soil depths as thin as possible. They seem to be race cars in the fleet of green roofs — maximum performance paired with minimum weight. The simple soil mixtures and roof sections of the early days of green roofs developed into multilayered complex systems supporting the homogenous surface of succulents. The unkempt and rough gave way to the groomed and cultivated, reminiscent of the unrelenting beauty of agricultural fields.
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More Environment Green Rating Problems — DDown to Earth, 2007.1204Climate Fund Falls Far Short — New York Times, 2007.1204 First Net Zero Commercial Building in U.S. — Buildings, 2007.1203 Canada's Greenest Building? — Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1203 Second Home Communities Take the LEED — HHelium Report, 2007.1203 Green Buildings Make Employees See Red — NetworkWorld, 2007.1203 City Council Wants Builders to Account for Global Warming — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.1203 Rebuild the Economy by Building Green Industries — Grist, 2007.1203 The Six Sins of Greenwashing — ENN, 2007.1203 U.S. Says Seeks New Climate Deal, Rejects Kyoto — Reuters, 2007.1203 Praising Green Architecture — San Jose Mercury News, 2007.1202 From Dust to Design... — Business Standard, 2007.1201 A Greener Blueprint — Lexington Herald-Leader, 2007.1201 Berkeley City College's Skylighted Quad Earns LEED Silver — AIArchitect, 2007.1130 Thermal Mass: What It Is and When It Improves Comfort — BuildingGreen, 2007.1130 The Making of an Eco-Deco Mansion — The Globe and Mail, 2007.1130 Consumer Spending Flags, Construction Plummets — Yahoo Finance, 2007.1130 Loq Kit Sustainable Housing System — Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1130 An Architect of the Soul — Time, 2007.1128 Nanotechnology: Small but Mighty — Canadian Architect, 2007.1127 Haworth Showroom Striving for LEED Gold — Interior Design, 2007.1127 China Says Three Gorges Mega-Dam Threats Controlled — Reuters, 2007.1127 EU Says Must Do More to Meet Kyoto Targets — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.1127 Earth-Friendly Developer: Not an Oxymoron — Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2007.1127 The Carbon Cost of Protecting Our Heritage — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1127 Greenpeace Slams Microsoft, Nintendo — Associated Press, 2007.1127 Environmental Education Center to Open Today — Opelika-Auburn News, 2007.1126 In Miles of Alleys, Chicago Finds Its Next Environmental Frontier — New York Times, 2007.1126 The Eco-Home Evangelist Who Cut Her Electric Bill to Just £5 a Year — Scotsman Online, 2007.1125 Government Wants Lab to Be Poster Child for Energy Efficiency — Washington Post, 2007.1125 Council Looks to Define, Enforce Eco-Building Practices — Napa Valley Register, 2007.1124 Arup to Design World's First 'Solar City' in Arizona — Building (UK), 2007.1123 Rockefeller Tree Is Green, but Is It Green? — New York Times, 2007.1120
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