Tag: recycled
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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…
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Mixed Use Shipping Container Structure to be A First in St. Louis
Shortly after returning from Italy, where he was project manger on several villa rehabilitations, to St. Louis, Missouri, developer Patrick Barnidge has started his own firm, Delsa Development, under which he has proposed a mixed-use container structure. To be built on a Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) city-owned lot in the Grove area of Forest Park…
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This Week in Energy News for March 15, 2013
This week in Jetson Green Energy News, London might build a bicycle super-highway, KLM is flying planes with biofuel from old cooking oil, Australia might be reaching solar power saturation, U.S. green car sales are on the rise, Guatamala might get pay-as-you-go solar power, and we have new upcoming green events. London Mayor Proposes £913…
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Empowerhome – The Sustainable Net-Zero Home of the Future
The Empowerhouse, a home that produces all of its own energy, has just been built in a Washington D.C. neighborhood. It was designed by students at the New School and Stevens Institute of Technology as part of a Solar Decathlon design competition, which partnered with the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development. This made…