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What if there were a way for states, cities, and counties to leverage each dollar of federal stimulus money they spend to generate $14 of private spending, create 14 times the number of jobs, reimburse the federal government $3, and get a dollar back to boot? And what if that economic solution could also help us tackle climate change by constructively attacking building-related carbon emissions?
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What would you call a green building standard that, on balance, tends to interfere with environmental reform more than help? In March 2009, ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition television show featured the first house in the country to win certification under the new green building standard from the National Association of Home Builders.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABLY In the new fifth edition of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Allen and Iano set a new benchmark by incorporating sustainability issues into a mainstream construction textbook, section by section, as in this concise overview from the first chapter. We also look forward to a future edition of their outstanding book in which appropriate sustainability considerations have penetrated every topic and page. — the Editors
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More Environment Living Buildings Touted in Portland — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0508Austria to Quit CERN — Nature, 2009.0508 Group 41 ‘H House’ Stands Out in Noe Valley — Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0507 Green-Collar Jobs, Defined and Counted — Reuters, 2009.0507 Ozone Data Conflict Resolved — Nature, 2009.0507 Farmers' Crops Keeping US Cool — New Scientist, 2009.0507 Green Is an Expensive Designation — Santa Monica Daily Press, 2009.0507 Tempe Design Firm Handles LEED Work in-House — Arizona Business Gazette, 2009.0507 Green Roof — KOUW, 2009.0506 U.S. To Weigh If Warming Threatens Tiny Pika — MSNBC, 2009.0506 Cap and Trade Won't Push Heavy Industries Overseas -- Study — New York Times, 2009.0506 New Broadway Theater to Be First LEED-Rated — Sustainable Business, 2009.0505 Vestas Makes Colorado a Clean-Energy Hub — New York Times, 2009.0505 Stern: On Climate, Pessimism Is No Option — New York Times, 2009.0505 Stern: On Climate, Pessimism Is No Option — New York Times, 2009.0505 Energy Star Building Designs Jump 60% — Environmental Leader, 2009.0504 A Greener Greensburg Two Years after Tornado — Washington Post, 2009.0504 Sustainable Support of Two CertainTeed Gypsum Products — Construction & Maintenance, 2009.0504 More LEED Please! — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2009.0504 Tornado-Ravaged Town Seeks Rebirth as 'Laboratory for Eco-Friendly Living' — New York Times, 2009.0504 Here Comes the Sun. Right? — New York Times, 2009.0503 Mysterious Industry Front-Group Affiliated with Ken Lay's Former Speechwriter Launches Anti-Waxman-Markey Ads with Phony MIT Cost Figures — Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0430 Solar Tech: Not Just on the Roof Anymore — New York Times, 2009.0430 Chu Promises Speedier Funding for Renewable Energy Projects — New York Times, 2009.0430 LEED at Rock Row — New York Times, 2009.0430 Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse Continues — Climate Feedback (blog), 2009.0429 Synagogues, Churches Build Green — Associated Press, 2009.0429 Hill Country Home Builder Wins Platinum LEED Honor — San Antonio Business Journal, 2009.0428 Noted Architect Advocates Green Buildings — Manila Bulletin, 2009.0428 Looking Beyond the E.P.A.'s Seal of Approval — New York Times, 2009.0416
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