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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 Brickyards to Be Turned into a 'Magical' Ecological Place — Town Crier, 2007.1212['Tis the Season] Building Green — Jackson Free Press, 2007.1212 U.S. Sees Renewable Energy Use Doubling by 2030 — Reuters, 2007.1212 U.N. Aims to Provide Carbon Neutral Example — Reuters, 2007.1212 Oil-Eating Bugs May Unlock Clean Energy from Crude — CNBC, 2007.1212 "Ecoboulevard" Industrial Revitalization Wins AR Awards — Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1212 Thousands of Wind Farms to Power England — Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1212 Mudslides Follow Rain in Northwest — CBS, 2007.1211 Wet Demolition Safer Than Leaving Buildings to Rot, Expert Says — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2007.1211 US Aims to 'Derail' Climate Change Deal — ITN, 2007.1211 L.A. May Limit Size of Big Homes — Los Angeles Times, 2007.1211 Green Homes Are Not Just for Hippies — The Press, 2007.1211 Treasure Island Plan: Most Sustainable City on the Planet — TriplePundit, 2007.1210 Giant Offshore Wind Farms to Supply Half of UK Power — The Times (London), 2007.1209 Business Runs Out of Green Energy Supply — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1209 London Fields — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1208 Provincetown Museum Becomes First LEED-Certified Art Museum — AIArchitect, 2007.1207 Greener Buildings Easy, but Barriers Remain-Expert — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1207 Meter, Meter on the Wall: Giving & Taking from a Smarter Grid — TriplePundit, 2007.1207 Nobel Winners Say Science Must Transcend Borders — Reuters, 2007.1207 Scottish Government to Review Trump Plans — Scotsman Online, 2007.1204 Climate Fund Falls Far Short — New York Times, 2007.1204 Green Rating Problems — DDown to Earth, 2007.1204 19th Century Platinum — EDC, 2007.1203 First Net Zero Commercial Building in U.S. — Buildings, 2007.1203 U.S. Says Seeks New Climate Deal, Rejects Kyoto — Reuters, 2007.1203 The Six Sins of Greenwashing — ENN, 2007.1203 Rebuild the Economy by Building Green Industries — Grist, 2007.1203 City Council Wants Builders to Account for Global Warming — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.1203 Canada's Greenest Building? — Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1203
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