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Inside Eco-friendly Shopping Malls

    Until recently, shopping malls could not aspire to be green all over.  Homes and schools can be green and eco-friendly, office and hospitals too.  But not malls.  It’s as if greenness and malls were two mutually exclusive concepts, an…
neoli
March 13, 2014
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Energy Savings in Buildings with LEED Certification

Last week, the free-market group Environmental Policy Alliance (EPA) released some very unsettling findings regarding LEED: that the supposedly green buildings with LEED certification in Washington D.C. actually use more energy than those buildings that aren’t LEED-certified at all.  Does…
neoli
March 8, 2014
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Eco Fashion | From Fibers to Retails Stores

It used to be that fashion and sustainability were at odds with each other.  Fashion was traditionally expected to be luxurious, extravagant, and spectacular: more or less what the sustainable movement was opposed to.  After all, sustainability is, among other…
neoli
February 22, 2014
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How Sunlight Factors Into Urban Planning

  We’ve always known a bit of sun is good for our health.  We always crave for that invigorating sunny stroll in the park, babies appreciate early morning sun baths, and even animals take time to sun themselves.  With a…
neoli
February 12, 2014
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Teaching Green Building to Kids and Everyone Else

  They’re teaching kids to code these days, which is good—the next technology visionary could come from their generation so it makes sense to start them early.  By the time they hit fifteen or even earlier, these brave, enterprising kids…
neoli
February 7, 2014
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Banning Fireworks on Chinese New Year

In light of the still-continuing smog problem in China, Beijing is contemplating on banning fireworks on the eve of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Wooden Horse) which falls on January 31.  Good luck with that.  A man in…
neoli
January 28, 2014