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SUSTAINABLE SITE SELECTION FOR SCHOOLS In the case of a new school, the first job for the working group is selecting a site. All the decisions that go into making a sustainable campus or building follow. Location defines the impacts of development both to the site itself and to surrounding neighborhoods, transportation, habitat, and hydrology.
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The American Institute of Architects has announced its top ten green projects for 2010. Sponsored by AIA's Committee on the Environment, and published in ArchitectureWeek No. 472, the award winners are each worthy of citation for excellence in internal design, in most cases reducing their environmental impacts significantly below those of similarly located but conventional buildings while also serving as teaching exemplars. So far, so good.
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Dear ArchitectureWeek, The Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency isn't just for houses. This we learned in Germany recently, on a fascinating tour of green building and design there, organized by the Ecologic Institute environmental think tank with funding from the German government.
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More Environment BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling Some Call Risky — New York Times, 2010.0624Thatcher Becomes Latest Recruit in Monckton's Climate Sceptic Campaign — Guardian Unlimited, 2010.0622 Obama to Push Climate Change on Back of BP Spill — Financial Times, 2010.0622 Kingston, Ontario Investing Heavily in Green Building — Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2010.0622 EU Sees Solar Power Imported from Sahara in Five Years — EurActiv, 2010.0622 Court Blocks Obama Ban on Deepwater Drilling — Reuters, 2010.0622 Faster Claims Payment Needed, Feinberg Says — New York Times, 2010.0622 Judge Who Ruled Against Offshore Drilling Moratorium Invests in Oil Industry — Climate Progress (blog), 2010.0622 Q-and-A: Woody Biomass, Pros and Cons — New York Times, 2010.0622 Washington Builders Sue to Slow Green Building — Green Landlady, 2010.0622 China’S Clean Energy Push — Climate Progress (blog), 2010.0622 5 Reasons Why GRI Is the New LEED — Triple Pundit, 2010.0622 Study Affirms Consensus on Climate Change — New York Times, 2010.0622 Europe Considers New Taxes to Boost 'Clean' Energy — New York Times, 2010.0622 Photovoltaics in Architecture — Glass On Web, 2010.0621 The Era of the Oil Gusher — New York Times, 2010.0621 A $100 Million Pool for Solar Financing — New York Times, 2010.0621 Can the River Save the Deltas? — New York Times, 2010.0621 Sub Makes Unexpected Find under Floating Ice Shelf — NPR, 2010.0621 Is a ‘Utility-Only’ Cap-and-Trade Bill Worth Passing? — Grist, 2010.0621 Suburbia Revised: Developers Try Turning Malls into Main Streets — Chicago Tribune, 2010.0621 Why Carbon Pricing Matters — The Atlantic, 2010.0618 Net Benefits of Biomass Power under Scrutiny — New York Times, 2010.0618 Columbia College Building Receives First LEED Silver Certification in Columbia — Columbia Missourian, 2010.0617 Bellevue Towers Achieves LEED Gold — Bellevue Reporter, 2010.0617 Antarctic Sea Ice Paradoxically Growing — Live Science, 2010.0617 Breaking the Cost Barrier on Algae-Based Biofuels — Triple Pundit (blog), 2010.0617 Spill May Have Taken Its Largest Victim Yet — New York Times, 2010.0617 Frank Hall at Appalachian University Receives LEED Gold Certification — Appalachian State University News, 2010.0617 Green-Roofed Meyers Pediatric Hospital in Florence, Italy — Inhabitat (blog), 2010.0616 Canadian Contractors Warned about LEED Certification Failure — Journal of Commerce, 2010.0616 DOE Gives $60 Million to Expand Local Energy Efficiency Efforts — Matter Network, 2010.0616
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