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When One Green Building Certification Isn’t Enough

Don't get us wrong, we like LEED a lot. We believe in the system not just because it's precisely the line of work we're in, but because over the past twenty years LEED has proven to be objective, rigorous,…

neoli25 January 2014

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On Material Transparency in LEED v4

When LEED v4 became official last year, it finally ushered a new era of transparency for the green building community. It was about time—LEED was two decades old, and along with that maturity comes a more aggressive stance on…

neoli16 January 2014

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Home and Building Insulation in an Age of Freak Weather

Home and Building Insulation in an Age of Freak Weather Great changes are happening to our weather. Super typhoons, off-season tornadoes, heat waves, flash floods, and the recent polar vortex in the U.S. all indicate a new weather norm. Elderly…

neoli12 January 2014

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3D Printing in Green Building

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve deliberately put off writing about 3D printing in our BEE blog for so long. It’s not that we’re not excited about this new technology, because no doubt it’s amazing, it’s revolutionary, and it’ll definitely shake…

neoli4 January 2014

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2013's Top Nine News on Green Building and the Environment in General

It's the year's end, a time for a little reflection of things past. So amid all the festivities and holiday rush let's look back at some of the noteworthy headlines in green building and the environment in general that punctuated and…

neoli23 December 2013

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Is Your Next Project Going to Be LEED Certified?

Even if you don't aspire to be certified by LEED, the methods of developing a sustainable building can help everyone. Sustainable construction is the future in many areas of the United States and developing a home or office building that…

Alessandro18 December 2013

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Last Minute Christmas Gift Guide for Yourself for Greening the Home

You’re done with the major renovations for greening up your digs. But you’re not quite there yet. When your goal is to maximize your dwelling’s green potential, the little details also count. Here then is our last minute Christmas gift…

neoli16 December 2013

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Eco-friendly Holidays | Celebrating the Green Way this 2013

Around this time of each year lots of digital ink is spent suggesting ways on how we can celebrate the holidays the eco-friendly way. (Check out our post last year about eco-friendly parties.) Greening up the holidays is as easy…

neoli12 December 2013

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Standing Desk for the Home | Three Other Benefits

For the longest time, I’ve refrained from broaching the topic of standing desks no matter if the experts say they’re good for our health, for the simple reason that I can’t recommend what I haven’t yet tried. I keep telling…

neoli8 December 2013

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The Paleo Diet | And How Not to Wreck Your Diet this Holiday Season

The holiday season is well upon us, which means dinner parties and sumptuous feasts will more or less throw our diets out of whack. The Paleo Diet: a visual guide Now’s a good time then to take a look at…

neoli5 December 2013