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Safe Furniture for Better Indoor Air Quality

Not all furniture are created equal.  Your local artisan might have honest-to-goodness intentions when crafting a dining chair, but unfortunately that’s not the scenario in big-time factories that churn out products by the thousands each day.  Mass production, in its…
neoli
June 23, 2015
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Biomass Energy Requirements to Become Part of Green Building Standard

Very soon, biomass energy  will be included in green building standards. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers), USGBC (US Green Building Council), and IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) are jointly developing new biomass requirements for inclusion in green…
neoli
February 10, 2015
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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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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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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…
neoli
January 16, 2014