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Greening Our LED Smart Lighting

The recently concluded Light+Building trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany showed the world what an exciting competition there is for smart lighting. Hundreds of exhibitors, both new and long-time players in the LED lighting system industry, showcased their creations, innovatively merging…

neoli9 April 2014

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On Green Buildings and the Internet of Things | Part 2

Click here for the First Part of this article. Exactly How Green? There’s no doubt about the greening consequences of the Internet of Things. As data flows in real time, our devices can make urgent decisions just as soon,…

neoli31 March 2014

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On Green Buildings and the Internet of Things | Part 1

If you’ve been patiently on the lookout, the Internet of Things and green building seem like a match made in heaven, beautifully made for each other. After all, what better way to turn our homes and buildings as green as…

neoli29 March 2014

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Trees for Malls | How Our Society Favours Shopping Malls Over Trees

Four decades after Joni Mitchell wrote and sang the lines “They paved paradise. And put up a parking lot”, we still haven’t learned. So now, we’ve got shopping malls everywhere. Earth-balling explained We talked about it in the previous post,…

neoli22 March 2014

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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…

neoli13 March 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…

neoli8 March 2014

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What You Might Have Missed This February | Green Building News and then Some

February might have swooped us in a frenzy of love and romance (Either that or increased awareness of singlehood), but that’s no excuse to miss out on some of the interesting stories that made headlines this month. These are…

neoli26 February 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…

neoli22 February 2014

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Green Building, Fungus Building, and Superstitions | News Roundup

Make Way for the Fungus Building Aptly named architectural firm The Living will be “growing” a fungus-based tower on the grounds of the Museum of Modern Art Ps1 (MoMA Ps1) in New York set to be opened in June. The…

neoli16 February 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…

neoli12 February 2014