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Edible Landscapes for Our Office Building Gardens

 We’re used to seeing PETA vegan campaigns featuring celebrities clad only in various produce.  This time around, the Virginia-based animal rights organization is giving us an idea of the scope in which veganism is currently embraced by all of America. …
neoli
June 8, 2013
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Spray-On Solar Cell Prepares to Make a Debut

Traditional silicon-wafer cells and thin-film solar cells have an upcoming rival—solar cells of the spray-on kind. Spray-on solar cells for glass windows (Image from newenergytechnologies.com) Since 2010, New Energy Technologies based in Columbia, Maryland has been busy developing their breakthrough…
neoli
May 31, 2013
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Impact of LEED on Asthma in Occupants

A recent study just released by Johns Hopkins University shows that asthma rates are significantly reduced for occupants in buildings that have achieved LEED Certification. This is yet another great example of the qualitative benefits (often overlooked) of green buildings and…
Alessandro
May 28, 2013
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Let’s Have Bird-Friendly Buildings Once and for All

In the U.S., as many as one billion birds die each year from accidentally colliding into glass windows of buildings. We can’t get our head around this number—one billion—and yet that number apparently is already a conservative estimate. The Aqua…
neoli
May 23, 2013
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Shanghai Green Building Subsidies

NOTE: If you wish to download a PDF version of this article, please click Shanghai Green Building Subsidies (742 KB). By Olivia Lu-Hill and Jade Chen China has been in the spotlight lately for its exponentially growing number of green buildings. The…
olivia
May 23, 2013
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Smart Paint, Carbon Dioxide, and the Building Sector

One of the more disheartening news reports we read about last week was the one about carbon dioxide reaching a new record level—400 parts per million, as measured in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii.  For scientists and environmentalists, this…
neoli
May 18, 2013
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Acoustics and Soundproofing in LEED Green Buildings

In film school we were made to watch Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (which was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness).  I forgot how both the film and book turned out, but I remember one important detail…
neoli
April 27, 2013
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How to Really Celebrate Earth Day

We’ve been celebrating Earth Day for forty-three years now since its launch in 1970, and yet despite everyone’s efforts, the threat of climate change still looms on us.  Does that mean the world’s combined efforts haven’t been enough?  Maybe not,…
neoli
April 21, 2013