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  • New and improved: LEED Interpretations and Addenda

    Feature image:  We’re working to make LEED easier to use, and over the next few months, you’ll notice several improvements to LEED Interpretations and rating system and reference guide addenda. The first step: we’re unveiling a new platform. Welcome to our simplified, searchable database housing all the LEED Interpretations and addenda you need for your…

  • New and improved: LEED Interpretations and Addenda

    Feature image:  We’re working to make LEED easier to use, and over the next few months, you’ll notice several improvements to LEED Interpretations and rating system and reference guide addenda. The first step: we’re unveiling a new platform. Welcome to our simplified, searchable database housing all the LEED Interpretations and addenda you need for your…

  • This Week in Energy News for April 5, 2013

    This week in Jetson Green Energy News, we’re celebrating the 13th birthday of LEED, reporting on renewable energy in Germany, Australia, and the United States, talking about why incandescent bulb sales are declining, and checking out a molten salt thermal plant (a what?) in Nevada. Plus, our calendar of upcoming green events keeps on growing,…

  • Sustainable CAFquiet Studless Wall System Provides Eco-Friendly Acoustic Protection

    Sustainable construction materials manufacturer, Stramit USA, has introduced an interior partition system called CAFquiet™ Studless Wall System, made from their proprietary compressed agricultural fiber (CAF) board, which requires no studs to install unique, noise-insulated interior environments. Included in the GreenBuilder Editor’s Choice Hot 50 Products for 2013,  CAFquiet walls are manufactured from agricultural waste to…

  • Visitor Centre at Vancouver Botanical Garden Features Undulating Green Roof

    Of of Canada’s first buildings to be certified under the International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge and designed to exceed LEED Platinum status for a significant model of sustainability, the 1,765 square meter VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, was designed by Perkins+Will in partnership with Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture…