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Recorded Webinar: Kicking Gas! Going All-Electric for the Health of Your Family and the Earth
Recorded: June 30, 2021
Speaker: Ann V. Edminster, M.Arch. (See speaker introduction bel
Top Recommendations - How Can We Improve Single Stream Recycling?
Top Recommendations - How Can We Improve Single Stream Recycling?
At the recent WasteWise Forum held at E.L. Harvey’s materials recovery facility (MRF) in Westborough Massachusett
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Do you use biophilic design in your projects?
In 1925, Henry Beston wrote The Outermost House, in which he chronicled a year spent alone on a Cape Cod beach. His solitary time revealed truths relevant to nature, including human nature. Besto
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Building Operator Certification: Smart Buildings Need Smart Operators
Did you know most buildings can cut total energy use by 5-30% while fully maintaining or improving both comfort and function? The national Building Operator Certification® (BOC) Program is the lea
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Lead Testing - Green Building Myth Busting, and DIY vs Professional Testing
Lead Testing for Tile and Plumbing Fixtures
When most of us think about lead testing, we’re typically thinking that lead might be in paint. But did you know that lead can be i
Next Step Living Out of Business - What does this Mean for Homeowners?
Next Step Living Out of Business - What does this Mean for Homeowners? Next Step Living announced that it would cease its operations on March 18, after running out of cash. After starting out as a…
Study Shows Just 100 Companies are source of more than 70% of global emissions
According to a new report, just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017 suggests there are 10…
An Introduction to Community Solar
If you are looking to ‘Go Solar’ there are many great options available, but one option worth looking into is Community Solar. The term Community Solar refers to a community based solar project th…
Solar experiment lets neighbors trade energy among themselves
Brooklyn is known the world over for things small-batch and local, like designer clogs, craft bourbon, and artisanal sauerkraut. Now, it is trying to add electricity to the list. In a promising exp…
It’s hard to preach about sustainable living when just owning or renting a home seems to be a hardship for more people than not lately. Who can think about sustainable choices that may cost more
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AIA Webinar: The Carbon Balance of the Built Environment, November 18, 8:30 am EST
Carbon in the built environment is a larger contributor to global emissions that affect the climate. All participants of the Paris Climate Agreement have to meet certain GHG reduction targets. Meeting
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Deep Energy Retrofits Initiative by Environmental Health Watch, Ohio
How low can you go? Imagine reducing the energy use in your home by 70-90%. It is possible– and can be economically feasible– without using renewable energy. Super-insulation and Passive House pri…
Encode Artificial Intelligence into Sustainability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already more real than people realize. A whopping 70 percent of the companies surveyed this year by Forrester Research plan to use some form of AI by the end of 2018 (F
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The Next Generation of Housing – Prefabricated Homes
Traditionally, the process of constructing a house takes place on the same piece of land where the house will stay when completed. Construction teams travel to the same outdoor site for months and are
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New York Approves Largest United States Offshore Wind Farm
New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has approved the largest U.S. offshore wind farm, which will be built off of Long Island. It will generate enough electricity to power over 50,000 homes on Long Island…
Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, November 19-22, Atlanta, GA
Presented by the U.S. Green Building Council, Greenbuild International is one of the largest annual events for green building professionals worldwide to learn and source cutting edge so
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AKUART by Kirei - Artistic Soundproofing for your Workplace or Home (Video)
Kristine Hart of CaraGreen recently met with Green Builder Matt Hoots to introduce AKUART by Kirei, a recycled-content and Low VOC acoustic panel series, where the panels also serve as a high re
Low-cost solar solutions light thousands of homes in India
India’s Energy Minister Piyush Goyal announced it is now less costly to produce electricity from the sun than from coal in the country. According to the World Energy Outlook 2016, 244 million peo…
How California is charting a path forward on Clean Energy
The late California historian Kevin Starr once wrote, “California had long since become one of the prisms through which the American people, for better and for worse, could glimpse their future.” …
The usual rooftop is plain terrain, exposing to sun, wind, rain, and snow, and enduring extreme temperatures up to 90 Fahrenheit higher than the surrounding air on a hot day. Green roofs, on the contr
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FREE COURSE: FSC-Certified Wood in Construction and Green Building
FREE COURSE: FSC-Certified Wood in Construction and Green Building
1 AAA Structured Learning Hour / 1 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour / 1 AIBD CE Hour / 1 GBCI General Hour for LEED Professionals
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Customized Switches and Sensors for Indoor Air Quality || Swidget
Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. connects with Chris from Swidget (a clever name: think "Switching" and "Widgets") at the 2022 International Builders Show. Chris walks us t
Living Product Expo 19, October 8-10, Nashville, TN
Living Future believe that spaces should not only be beautiful, but they should also be healthy. At Living Product Expo 19, connect with 700+ industry leaders who are all part of a movement
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Webinar: Best in the West Webinar Series: Risk Management in the Age of Climate Change, July 25
Learn how the built environment can help mitigate climate change during this fourth installment of the Best in the West webinar series. LEED Fellow Scott Bowman and environmental change scientist J…
Greenbuild 2017 - Boston Convention Center - November 8 - 10, Boston
Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. The green building community gathers to share ideals and mutual passion at Greenbuild, sparking a contagious buzz thr…
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