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LEED Pilot Credit Focuses on Gardens that Grow Food

There’s a new LEED Pilot Credit in town, and it involves gardening. Yes, gardening. But more specifically, gardens that produce food. Under LEED SSpc82 Local Food Production, projects can now avail of additional LEED points when they commit to maintaining…

neoli17 Ottobre 2013

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Rethinking Our Green Building Insulation

Spray foam, once thought to be a green option for insulating green buildings and homes, is on the hot seat right now. Treehugger released a five-parter series denouncing it last month, and advised us to give spray polyurethane foam a…

neoli14 Ottobre 2013

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When LEED Factors into Green Building Appraisal

Tennessee-based LEED Accredited Professional architect Mike Leonard recently wrote an article on what really matters in LEED certification. Leonard makes an interesting point regarding the fact that appraisers have to take into account a fairly new factor in a building’s…

neoli11 Ottobre 2013

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How to Read IPCC's Global Warming Report

By now you’ve probably heard of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last Friday regarding global warming. With several hundreds of scientists from around the world 95{e3829ec1db02d54faaf9fa2de0d48db26af01d7a7944a63c3b26976124791cab} sure that global warming is indeed happening and that humanity…

neoli3 Ottobre 2013

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How to Look at Invisible Buildings | South Korea’s Tower Infinity

Just as we were coming to terms with the new superlative heights and grandness achieved by skyscrapers these days, along comes South Korea's proposed building for 2014, the Tower Infinity. Its main feature: invisibility. Welcome to the era of invisible…

neoli20 Settembre 2013

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For the Sake of Height: Skyscrapers with Vanity Height

Vanity height. Now there’s a word the Oxford dictionary should have added to its list of new words for the 3rd quarter of 2013. Early this month, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) revealed the sins of…

neoli12 Settembre 2013

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Non-Conventional Building Materials

Forget steel and cement for the meanwhile and let’s go back to basics. Seaweed power! Modern Seaweed House in Denmark (Image from Dezeen.com) Old-school builders were…

neoli9 Settembre 2013

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Climate-proof Buildings and Apocalypse-proof Castles

With the effects of climate change upon us, designers are making climate-proof buildings. One family takes a step further with an apocalypse-proof castle. There’s this reality show on National Geographic Channel airing these days, and it’s about a castle…

neoli2 Settembre 2013

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Good-bye Animal Suffering. Hello, Lab Meat.

As a general rule we don’t eat meat that often. It’s not some conscious effort to be a vegan, either for health reasons or out of respect for our fellow animals—we just like vegetables better. But once in a while…

neoli29 Agosto 2013

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3 Tips in Choosing LEED Contractors

The decision to build green is not always an easy one. You know the drill: there’s tedious paperwork to be done, strict rules to consider, and very little leeway. USGBC, championing green buiding(Image from www.bestpracticesconstructionlaw.com) Thankfully, that’s where LEED contractors…

neoli24 Agosto 2013