Tag: conservation
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The World’s Greenest Commercial Building Now Leasing for Spring 2013 Opening
Seattle’s Bullitt Center, a project of the Bullitt Foundation, has been designed to take the spot as the most energy efficient commercial building on the planet and put Seattle on “the forefront of the green building movement,” according to the project’s website. With the first floor already leased to the International Living Future Institute and…
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This Week in Energy News for March 1, 2013
This week in Jetson Green Energy News, efforts are being made to reduce pollution and derive energy from renewable sources. Google Reveals Plans for Massive Green Office Complex In partnership with Seattle-based design firm NBBJ, Google has released an architectural rendering of plans for its next 1.1 million square-foot headquarters that features green roofs and…
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Milan’s Bosco Verticale On Track to Become World’s First Vertical Forest
Milan, Italy is one of Europe’s most polluted cities, its air quality frequently breaching safety limits set by the EU and causing city officials to install a ventilation system in 2009 in an effort to reduce damage to Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper that resides in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church. In 2003,…
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New LED Lighting Styles Launched by Barn Light Electric
Barn Light Electric has announced its launch a a new line of lighting fixtures that utilize innovative LED technology from Cree, Inc., an innovator in LED lighting. Barn Light is combining its vintage-styled lighting with energy-efficient, low-maintenance LEDs. Cree provides a proprietary TrueWhite® technology that transmits a warm light similar to traditional incandescent bulbs. “While…
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Low-Carbon Concrete Products to be Developed by Atlas Block and CarbonCure
Atlas Block, a manufacturer of concrete products based in Ontario, has signed a licensing agreement with CarbonCure, an emerging leader in science-based concrete technology for green building, to manufacture low-carbon concrete that will significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the concrete industry. Several months have been spent testing the bolt-on technology from CarbonCure at the…