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Attendees of the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo had good reason to be excited. Since the conference's debut in 2002 in Austin, Texas, when just over 4,000 people gathered to discuss the importance of sustainable design, Greenbuild has expanded dramatically.
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BRINGING SUSTAINABILITY AND URBANISM TOGETHER There are numerous benefits to fusing sustainable development and urban development concepts. Moreover, pedestrian-oriented, urbanist-project approaches have been vigorously embraced by many environmental groups. It is not, however, intuitively obvious to everyone why high-density, extensively hardscaped projects would be good for the environment.
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More Environment E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide — New York Times, 2009.0219Solar Team Steels Itself for Victory — The Santa Clara, 2009.0219 New York Must Prepare for Global Warming, Mayor's Panel Says — New York Times, 2009.0218 Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid — New York Times, 2009.0217 Cutting Costs with Solar Walls — New York Times, 2009.0217 Green Investing in the Troubled Real Estate Market — New York Times, 2009.0217 Does Funding Carbon Capture Boost Energy Security? — New York Times, 2009.0217 Kaputnik Chaos Could Kill Hubble — Nature, 2009.0217 Changes Set for Green Ratings — North Bay Business Journal, 2009.0216 Inching Toward Greener Cellphones — New York Times, 2009.0216 Nitrogen Fertilizer Warning for China — Nature, 2009.0216 Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs? — The Nation, 2009.0216 A World without Water — The Nation, 2009.0216 Sustainable Living Takes on New Home Front — Northern Star, 2009.0216 Big Solar Heats Up — Channel News Asia, 2009.0216 60 Students Building Solar-Powered House — Columbus Dispatch, 2009.0216 Is America Ready to Quit Coal? — New York Times, 2009.0215 Clinton Tries to Build China Climate Pact — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0214 U.S. Economic Stimulus to Boost Renewable Energy — Reuters, 2009.0212 Reinventing Modular Housing as Green — New York Times, 2009.0211 New Grant Helps Energy-Efficient Home Builders — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0211 Here Comes the Sun Shower — New York Times, 2009.0210 SYNTHe: An Urban Rooftop Garden Prototype in Los Angeles — Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0209 Google Taking a Step into Power Metering — New York Times, 2009.0209 FEMA Is Faulted on Aid after Hurricane Ike — New York Times, 2009.0209 Feed-in Tariffs Contemplated in the U.S. — New York Times, 2009.0209 Fires, Floods Pressure Australia Government on Climate — Reuters, 2009.0209 Why Obama's Energy Savings Estimate May Be Skewed — New York Times, 2009.0207 New Sausalito Homes - Green and Good Neighbors — San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0207 Mercer Slough Center Treads Lightly on the Bellevue Landscape — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2009.0203
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