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To Retrofit Or Build New? That’s The LEED Question
As we prepare to turn the calendar over to another year, another salvo has been fired in the debate over the utility of the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED rating system and its ability to...
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Populous Soccer Stadiums Nearly As Green As The Pitch
The average sports stadium—with its blazing nighttime lights, high construction costs, thousands of disposable beer cups and acres of parking spaces—may not be the greenest of civic structures,...
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Wisconsin Clinic One Of Few To Earn LEED Status
It’s very hard to be environmentally conscious when your chief function is to save lives. Hospitals and clinics, for instance, are open around the clock, subject to strict standards for cleanliness,...
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New York’s LEDs Shine Light On Efficiency
When discussing energy savings, there’s a principle often cited by economists called the Jevons paradox, which postulates that as the use of a resource becomes more efficient, consumption of that...
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Net-Zero Energy PNC Branch Opens In Florida
A bank that actually gives back more than it takes in? Impossible, you might say. But a branch of PNC Bank that opened last week in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., expects to use half of the energy needed by...
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Report: Consumers On Board With Smart Grid Transition
Although we know a smarter, more connected grid is the inevitable future, the transition has been sluggish. There are many factors involved in the shift from an analog grid system to one that...
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Greenland Plaza Reflects Well On China’s Green Plans
At night, the new 60-story Zhengzhou Greenland Plaza tower may seem like an energy hog, lit up like a blazing beacon over the Henan Province countryside. But much of that luminescence comes from a...
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Whirlpool’s Riverview Campus Spins Up To LEED-EB Platinum
When appliance maker Whirlpool began to make extensive interior renovations to its Riverview Campus facility in Benton Harbor, Mich., the goal was reach LEED Gold status for sustainability. Now that...
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D.C. Adds Green Cred With High Energy Star Rank
Washington, D.C., is a town that practically invented the term “gridlock,” and it has been demonstrating this concept 24/7 for decades. Scratch below the political veneer on its surface, however, and...
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NREL Cools Cloud Computing Costs With Warm Water
The advent and rapid proliferation of cloud computing has revolutionized the way we store, process and manage data, but it comes at an environmental cost that’s not always obvious. Those petabytes of...
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Updated Apartment Block From ‘60s Wins Prize
Is there any form of architecture more universally reviled than the residential urban renewal “projects” of the 1950s and ‘60s? Once thought to be a modern cure for the scourges of city slums, these...
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Obama’s Better Buildings Program Celebrates First Year
These days, President Obama has his hands full with a numerous scandals involving government surveillance. Fortunately, at least one of his programs is starting to show positive progress, and it...
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Right-Wing, Left-Wing, We All Like Utility Bill Sav-ings
Most of us have heard the adage, “it’s not polite to bring up religion or politics at a party”. It’s possible that this is true now more than ever. Thanks to a consolidated media and elected officials...
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Modular Construction, A Better Way for Green Building
Rising energy costs, higher standards of sustainability (for example California’s Green Building Standards Code) and innovative technologies are driving the demand for sustainable building. Yet,...
View ArticleFirst GREENGUARD Certified Television
UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories), and LG Electronics USA today announced the landmark achievement of GREENGUARD Certification for LG’s newest OLED TV, model 55EC9300....
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D.C. Adds Green Cred With High Energy Star Rank
Washington, D.C., is a town that practically invented the term “gridlock,” and it has been demonstrating this concept 24/7 for decades. Scratch below the political veneer on its surface, however, and...
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NREL Cools Cloud Computing Costs With Warm Water
The advent and rapid proliferation of cloud computing has revolutionized the way we store, process and manage data, but it comes at an environmental cost that’s not always obvious. Those petabytes of...
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