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Kalyani.rc
Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Member Since: 01/16/2017
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What is a High Performance Home?
"High performance homes" is a term that’s bandied around a lot. We’ve found that many people don’t really understand exactly what it means or the benefits of owning a high performance home until they’ve lived in one. So what really is a high performance home and what do you need to think about when building one? The Energy Act 2005 defines a ‘high performance building’ as one that “i...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/27/2023 + Show |
Architecture 2030 and the International Living Future Institute update their Net Zero Energy Goals
Architecture 2030 and the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) are making an effort to grow their energy efficiency reporting and certification programs. Both the 2030 Challenge and the Living Building Challenge (LBC) have encouraged progressive designers and owners with aspirational goals that are eminently hard to achieve. New policies announced on March 8, 2017, are intended to remove unnecessary barriers to certifications and sca...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/27/2023 + Show |
Wind turbines across the Great Plains states produced, for the first time, more than half the region’s electricity. The power grid that supplies a corridor stretching from Montana to the Texas Panhandle was getting 52.1 percent of its power from wind at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. As more and more turbines are installed across the country, Southwest...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/15/2017 + Show |
Google Soon to Deliver on 100% Renewables Promise
Sometime within the next 12 months, internet search and cloud services giant Google will be buying enough clean power on an ongoing basis to account for the electricity needs of both its 13 data centers (so far) and offices in more than 150 cities around the world. This is not an insignificant load. Since Google declared its 100 percent...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/14/2017 + Show |
A film worth watching: How to keep cool without costing the Earth?
About 6% of the electricity generated in America is used to power air-conditioning systems that cool homes and offices. As countries such as Brazil, China and India grow richer, they will surely do likewise. Not only is that expensive for customers, it also raises emissions of greenhouse gases in the form both of carbon dioxide from burning...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/14/2017 + Show |
Job Title: Climate & Energy Advisor Salary: $40.39 - $60.60 Hourly Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave., Seattle, Washington Job Type: Civil Service Exempt, Regular, Full-time Department: Office of Sustainability and Environment Closing Date/Time: Tuesday, 02/21, 4:00 PM Pacific Time The Office of Sustainability & Environment...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/14/2017 + Show |
250 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free!
The 8 Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania. All eight schools place in the top fifteen of the U.S. News and World Report 2017 national university rankings. These Ivy League schools are...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/13/2017 + Show |
Benefits of Passive House Buildings
"Energy efficiency is a way of managing and restraining the growth in energy consumption. Something is more energy efficient if it delivers more services for the same energy input, or the same services for less energy input" – International Energy Agency Passive House buildings are designed and constructed to be highly energy efficient, they...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/06/2017 + Show |
Become part of the solution! Pledge Zero Waste!
Zero Waste Pledge: About a third of New Yorkers' waste can be recycled through the City’s curbside recycling program; another third can be recovered through the City’s organics programs; and another 10% (textiles, electronic waste, harmful household products, and plastic bags) can be diverted through donations and take-back...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 02/01/2017 + Show |
As climate change accelerates, floating cities look like less of a pipe dream
Out of the box thinking - Noah’s Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets An audacious plan to respond to climate change by building a city of floating islands in the South Pacific is moving forward, with the government of French Polynesia agreeing to consider hosting the islands in a tropical lagoon. The project is being put forward by...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 01/30/2017 + Show |
Study Links Green Buildings to Higher Cognitive Function
Can better thinking and better health be found in green-certified buildings? New research says yes. Both indoors and out, the built environment plays a critical role in our overall health and well-being. This is especially true as about 90% of our time is spent indoors, and buildings have the ability to positively and negatively influence human...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 01/25/2017 + Show |
The Scottish government has taken the first steps to heavily cutting the country’s reliance on North Sea oil and gas after calling for 50% of Scotland’s entire energy needs to come from renewables. In a subtle but significant shift of emphasis for the Scottish National party after decades championing North Sea production, ministers unveiled...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 01/25/2017 + Show |
Event: 2017 Design-Build Conference & Expo, 11/8 - 11/10, Philadelphia, PA
The Design-Build Institute of America is the only organization that defines, teaches and promotes best practices in design-build. Design-build is a collaborative approach to project delivery that integrates design and construction with a single-point of responsibility contract. For two decades, design-build practitioners, specialty contractors,...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 11/08/2017 + Show |
Event: BuildingEnergy NYC, 10/12, New York
The BuildingEnergy NYC Conference + Trade Show is NYC's fastest-growing event for professionals and practitioners working to build a more sustainable world. It brings more than 600 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and network with each other. This year's event, chaired by Eric Davis of Con Edison and Ryan Cassidy...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 10/12/2017 + Show |
Event: CitiesAlive Conference, 9/18 - 9/21, Seattle, WA
Building Resilience and Equity Across Cascadia: People, Community, and Places Within the western region of North America lies Cascadia. Although the boundaries of the region differ depending on ecological, political, economic or cultural lines - it's undeniable that Cascadia is expansive. The climate of Cascadia calls for adaptation of building...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 09/18/2017 + Show |
Free Event: 10th Annual Boston GreenFest, 8/11 - 8/13, Boston, MA
10th Annual Boston GreenFest! Boston GreenFest is a grassroots effort organized by the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. and its dedicated team of community volunteers. Our goal is to educate and empower people to create a more sustainable, healthier world. We are actively building an interconnected, ever expanding network throughout our...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 08/11/2017 + Show |
Event: Intersolar and ees North America 2017, 7/10 - 7/13, San Francisco, CA
Intersolar North America, the most attended solar event in North America, takes place each July in San Francisco. The exhibition focuses on the areas of photovoltaics, smart renewable energy and solar heating & cooling technologies. ees North America, co-located with Intersolar North America, covers the entire value chain of innovative battery...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 07/10/2017 + Show |
Event: Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo - Placing Cities First, June 26-28, Austin TX
Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo - Placing Cities First June 26-28, Austin Convention Center 500 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, Texas, 78701 www.austinconventioncenter.com Building upon the 2016 Smart Cities Innovation Summit, we are pleased to announce our program expansion and name change to the 2017 Smart Cities Connect...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/26/2017 + Show |
Event: BOMA 2017 International Conference and Expo, 6/24 - 6/27, Nashville, TN
Your commercial real estate success story began with the first steps you took toward building relationships to make your business thrive. Take the next steps toward boosting your property—and your career—at the industry’s premier professional event: the BOMA International Annual Conference & Expo. Held in Music City in downtown...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/24/2017 + Show |
Webinar: LEED v4: Paints and Coatings, 6/22, 12:00 PM -1:00 PM EDT
Get a comprehensive overview of LEED v4 BD+C New Construction credits – and how paints and coatings can contribute directly and indirectly to LEED credits. We’ll review credit intents, explain credit requirements, and explore where to find materials to meet the needs of the credits. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the motivation behind...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/22/2017 + Show |
Event: World Green Infrastructure Congress 2017, 6/20 - 6/22, Berlin, Germany
The WGIC 2017 World Congress is a multi-day event around the greening of buildings (roofing, façade and interior greening) with accompanying events (eg urban climate, rainwater management, sustainability, future city). At the end of the congress, there will be the possibility to participate in excursions to special projects. In 2017 the...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/20/2017 + Show |
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