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In mid-October 2009, twenty teams of engineering and architecture students erected houses on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the biennial Solar Decathlon green building contest. After spending two years designing and building cutting-edge solar houses, the teams — mostly from North America — sought the designation of "most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient" for their structures.
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WE CAN'T IGNORE CLIMATE CHANGE At a Clean Energy Economy Forum at the White House on October 7, 2009, J. Wayne Leonard, the chairman and CEO of Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy company based in New Orleans, spoke about the urgency of addressing climate change. —Editor
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When Portola Valley, California sought an updated, seismically safer civic complex, the existing mid-20th-century wood-and-concrete-block campus was deconstructed and its parts repurposed, along with other salvaged components, to create a sustainable new facility on another portion of the site. The resulting Portola Valley Town Center is targeted for LEED Platinum certification and was named one of the Top Ten Green Projects for 2009 by the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE).
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More Environment What They Really Believe — New York Times, 2009.1118Houston to Convert Priuses to Plug-Ins — New York Times, 2009.1118 Climate Model Sets Tough Targets — Nature, 2009.1117 Americans' Interest in Green Sags During Downturn — Green Biz, 2009.1117 A Solar Technology Seeks Its Day in the Sun — New York Times, 2009.1117 After Chinese Turbine Controversy, Companies Plan American Plant — New York Times, 2009.1117 Blown Away: Wind Power Keeps Growing in Texas — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1117 World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty — Time, 2009.1117 Seeking Wind Energy, Some Consider the Sea — New York Times, 2009.1116 New Report Finds Clear Evidence of US Jobs Boom from Green Building — Solve Climate, 2009.1116 Solar Developer Abandons Water Plans — New York Times, 2009.1116 Denise Bester: Too Much Waste in Building Industry — NZ Herald News, 2009.1116 Autodesk's Massachusetts Division Headquarters Awarded LEED-CI Platinum Certification — AZoBuild, 2009.1113 A World Awaits Us: The Copenhagen Conference Building Boom — Building (UK), 2009.1113 Obama in 11th-Hour Climate Bid with China, India — Associated Foreign Press, 2009.1112 Oil Rise 'Could Derail Recovery' — BBC News, 2009.1112 Nuclear Power Industry May Benefit from Climate Change Levy Exemption — The Times (UK), 2009.1112 Al Gore Calls for a Green Building Revolution — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1112 Alejandro D'Acosta and Claudia Turrent's Experiments in Green Design — Chicago Tribune, 2009.1112 Record-High U.S. Temps Outpace Record Lows: Study — ABC News, 2009.1112 Renovated ASU Memorial Union Receives LEED Gold Certification — ASU News, 2009.1110 EPA Marks One Million Energy Star Homes Built in the United States — EPA Press Release, 2009.1110 Autodesk Green Building Studio Adds More Than a Million Global Weather Locations — Autodesk Press Release, 2009.1110 Environmental Agency Warns 2 Staff Lawyers over Video Criticizing Climate Policy — New York Times, 2009.1110 Financing Challenges for Geothermal Power — New York Times, 2009.1110 Windmill to Power Home Making a Net-Zero Energy Structure — Hartford Courant, 2009.1109 Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash — New York Times, 2009.1109 Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost — New York Times, 2009.1109 Universities Look for Heat Underground — New York Times, 2009.1109 Uniform Solar Energy Code Named an American National Standard — EDC, 2009.1106 Gore's Dual Role: Advocate and Investor — New York Times, 2009.1102
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