Tag: Sustainable Buildings
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Who says there ain’t no love in the heart of the city?
Shanghai, China by Lowcola Whereas upwardly mobile Americans have for decades fled inner cities for a suburban paradise replete with spacious homes, large vehicles and big-box consumer troughs, a post-recession urban revival is today making the suburbs the home of the down-and-out. So goes the storyline of an epic June 7 article in the Financial…
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‘The Big Crunch’
Dodo bird “Only five times in Earth’s history has life been as threatened as it is now.” –Stuart Pimm, professor of conservation ecology, Duke University Quick, name an animal that has gone extinct. Most of us probably think of dinosaurs first; but science has absolved humans of all blame in that tragic event, as we…
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‘The Big Crunch’
Dodo bird “Only five times in Earth’s history has life been as threatened as it is now.” –Stuart Pimm, professor of conservation ecology, Duke University Quick, name an animal that has gone extinct. Most of us probably think of dinosaurs first; but science has absolved humans of all blame in that tragic event, as we…
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New York to spend billions on climate resiliency
Nearly eight months after Hurricane Sandy slammed the northeastern United States, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a far-reaching $20 billion plan to build flood barriers and “green infrastructure” to protect low-lying areas of Manhattan from future superstorms. Following Sandy, the mayor appointed a task force to assess the city’s vulnerability. In a report released…
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UC Davis winery facility aims to be first ‘net zero’ university building
Wine industry leaders and design-build contractors gathered at the University of California, Davis, in late May to celebrate the opening of the $4 million Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building. It pines to be the first building at any university to be certified “net zero energy” under the Living Building Challenge, and only the second…