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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 Norway Commits 36 Million Euros to Zero-Carbon Building Research — Energy Efficiency News, 2009.0227A Green Dream — Sarasota Magazine, 2009.0227 Judson Gets Gold LEED Rating for Weber Academic Center — Daily Herald, 2009.0226 Green Support Remains, LEED Interest Slips — GlobeSt, 2009.0225 E.P.A. Is Told to Reconsider Its Standards on Pollutants — New York Times, 2009.0225 Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat for Power — New York Times, 2009.0225 Economic Crisis Complicates California's Goals on Climate — New York Times, 2009.0225 In Climate Debate, Exaggeration Is a Pitfall — New York Times, 2009.0225 Sears Tower in Silver? A Green Idea That Isn't as Good as Gold — Chicago Tribune, 2009.0225 Using LEED to Measure Spray Polyurethane Foam — Spray Foam, 2009.0224 Satellite to Monitor Carbon Sinks Sinks — Nature, 2009.0224 Nations Pull Together to Cut Mercury Emissions — Nature, 2009.0224 Green Expertise Turns to Gold — Oregonian, 2009.0224 Using Recycled and Green Building Materials — AZoBuild, 2009.0223 Turning Bricks and Mortar Green — MIT News, 2009.0223 Harbour Threat for Coelacanths — Nature, 2009.0223 West Blamed for Rapid Increase in China's CO2 — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0223 The Greenest Building... — Earth911, 2009.0223 Uncertainty over Animal Crossings — Nature, 2009.0223 Is the New York Times Coverage of Global Warming Fatally Flawed? — Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0222 Eco-Friendly Church Addition in North Carolina City — Baptist Standard, 2009.0220 Arctic Coastal Erosion Doubles in 50 Years — Nature, 2009.0220 L.A. To Green Streetlights in the Largest LED Retrofit to Date — Greener Buildings, 2009.0219 LEED Residential Program Encourages Healthy Homes — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0219 Peak Energy: Promise or Peril? — Nature, 2009.0219 E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide — New York Times, 2009.0219 Solar Team Steels Itself for Victory — The Santa Clara, 2009.0219 Investors Target Exxon, Massey for Lags on Climate — Reuters, 2009.0218 Melt-Pools 'Accelerating Arctic Ice Loss' — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0218
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