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Poison pill pushed by illegal lobbyists, or exciting, bipartisan energy bill that could change everything? It could be up to you. Meet the "strategic advocate" behind Green Globes. The president of this organization is also Green Buidling Initiative's vice president for federal outrea...
Roxul ComfortBoard IS has some important environmental and performance advantages over XPS and polyisocyanurate insulation ComfortBoard IS, Roxul's exterior insulation board, is being distributed nationwide in the U.S. at thickensses up to 3". Photo Credit: Roxul Readers of this Energ...
Turning waste into a unique architectural product, Coldspring and Jason F. McLennan have teamed up on a new dimensional stone product. Photo: Coldspring As the founder and CEO of the International Living Future Institute and its influential Living Building Challenge, Declare product d...
Photo – Greg Habermann (Remixed under CC BY 2.0) After years of living with a nice-looking but rather uncomfortable daybed in our living room, my family and I went shopping for a new sofa. We explored a range of styles and configurations, trying to find something that looked good, wou...
Cool your super-efficient jets, green building world. We still have no idea what GSA is going to do about LEED. As GSA goes, so goes the federal government? Maybe...maybe not. Photo Credit: Shalom Baranes Associates It’s been a long and confusing year for people who track federal gree...
Shiny materials control radiant heat flow, but there is a great deal of misinformation about these systems. How Radiant Barriers Keep Attics Cooler In a hot climate with an unheated attic and the radiant barrier at the rafters, it's best if the shiny surface is facing down (into the a...
Posted by Bill Burke on Apr 22, 2013, 11:55 PM Matarozzi/Pelsinger is a very good building, so this comment is NOT intended to reflect on the design team. My question is about the statement that, "The bicycle storage and changing rooms are put to good use, as 65% of the 81 employees i...
Cool your super-efficient jets, green building world. We still have no idea what GSA is going to do about LEED. As GSA goes, so goes the federal government? Maybe...maybe not. Photo Credit: Shalom Baranes Associates It’s been a long and confusing year for people who track federal gree...
