Tag: Great Greenness
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Depp Helps Publish Woody Guthrie’s Long Lost Novel about Natural Building
We came across this post from Rhonda Winter at Ecolocalizer concerning Woody Guthrie’s writing about natural building. Depp Helps Publish Woody Guthrie’s Long Lost Novel about Natural Building (via EcoLocalizer) In 1947 Woody Guthrie wrote House of Earth, a fictional story about struggling young sharecroppers, poverty and building sustainably with dirt and natural ingredients.…
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Carbon Footprint Measurements: Understanding the Basics
Carbon emissions are directly correlated with energy and other business inputs. Conducting a comprehensive business carbon footprint can help you identify bottom-line savings in the form of operational, process, and technological inefficiencies. It can also draw the attention of investors, the press, and others, helping you to improve the overall profile of your organization in…
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Green Buildings: Rational Solutions
To combat this environmental challenge, we need a holistic, integrated approach towards reducing the energy consumption in buildings yet maintaining a high standard of building services, internal comfort and quality of living. An integrated approach requires that every stage from conceptualization and design to construction and end building usage is ‘tuned’ towards reducing net energy…
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87% of Seattle’s Large Buildings Now Tracking & Reporting Energy Use to City
“Seattle’s benchmarking program has helped many building owners who have never tracked energy use before better understand their building’s energy performance. Reporting the information to the city will help us improve and create programs to help owners upgrade their facilities to save energy and money,” said Jill Simmons, Director of the Seattle Office of Sustainability…
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PNC SmartHome in Cleveland Snares Brooking Prize for Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Planning for the SmartHome began in late 2010, when CMNH staff members were making preparations for mounting a major traveling exhibit on the science of climate change. They wondered what else they could do to communicate the complex and challenging issue of climate change. Could they do something hopeful to demonstrate real solutions? Could they,…