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Teaching Green Building to Kids and Everyone Else

They’re teaching kids to code these days, which is good—the next technology visionary could come from their generation so it makes sense to start them early. By the time they hit fifteen or even earlier, these brave, enterprising kids…

neoli7 Febbraio 2014

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Banning Fireworks on Chinese New Year

In light of the still-continuing smog problem in China, Beijing is contemplating on banning fireworks on the eve of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Wooden Horse) which falls on January 31. Good luck with that. A man in…

neoli28 Gennaio 2014

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When One Green Building Certification Isn’t Enough

Don't get us wrong, we like LEED a lot. We believe in the system not just because it's precisely the line of work we're in, but because over the past twenty years LEED has proven to be objective, rigorous,…

neoli25 Gennaio 2014

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On Material Transparency in LEED v4

When LEED v4 became official last year, it finally ushered a new era of transparency for the green building community. It was about time—LEED was two decades old, and along with that maturity comes a more aggressive stance on…

neoli16 Gennaio 2014

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Home and Building Insulation in an Age of Freak Weather

Home and Building Insulation in an Age of Freak Weather Great changes are happening to our weather. Super typhoons, off-season tornadoes, heat waves, flash floods, and the recent polar vortex in the U.S. all indicate a new weather norm. Elderly…

neoli12 Gennaio 2014

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3D Printing in Green Building

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve deliberately put off writing about 3D printing in our BEE blog for so long. It’s not that we’re not excited about this new technology, because no doubt it’s amazing, it’s revolutionary, and it’ll definitely shake…

neoli4 Gennaio 2014

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2013's Top Nine News on Green Building and the Environment in General

It's the year's end, a time for a little reflection of things past. So amid all the festivities and holiday rush let's look back at some of the noteworthy headlines in green building and the environment in general that punctuated and…

neoli23 Dicembre 2013

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Is Your Next Project Going to Be LEED Certified?

Even if you don't aspire to be certified by LEED, the methods of developing a sustainable building can help everyone. Sustainable construction is the future in many areas of the United States and developing a home or office building that…

Alessandro18 Dicembre 2013

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Last Minute Christmas Gift Guide for Yourself for Greening the Home

You’re done with the major renovations for greening up your digs. But you’re not quite there yet. When your goal is to maximize your dwelling’s green potential, the little details also count. Here then is our last minute Christmas gift…

neoli16 Dicembre 2013

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Eco-friendly Holidays | Celebrating the Green Way this 2013

Around this time of each year lots of digital ink is spent suggesting ways on how we can celebrate the holidays the eco-friendly way. (Check out our post last year about eco-friendly parties.) Greening up the holidays is as easy…

neoli12 Dicembre 2013