Beginning this week all construction projects pursuing LEED certification will be subject to new, stricter standards. The biggeset change is how energy usage is reported. Building owners must now report their total annual energy and water consumption or be recertified every two years. The idea is more reporting [...]
Here are a few articles from around the super information highway that tripped our alarms this week:
Downsizing your dream home. New home buying trends lean to the green. (ABC News)
eVolvo Skyscraper Competition is ready for entries: (Inhabitat)
Chicago’s Sears Tower to receive $350 million green facelift: (AP )
Sustainable Industries Top Green Products of 2009 (Jetson Green)
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Robin Cape, Asheville Councilwoman and sponsor of the city’s Committee on Energy and Environment, offers her perspective on sustainability from a local government level. “Change starts at home” is an old saying, but it is still relevant. We often forget how important local government agencies and officials are when we aim to change our communities.
Ms. Cape gives us [...]
Georgia Malki, co-founder of Green Cities, discusses the meaning of sustainability in video one of a three part series. Malki says that sustainability includes being socially and economically responsible while considering how your actions relate to community.
Click below for the full video.
Joseph Malki of Seven Star is the Founder of Green Cities™, and from my brief meeting with him it’s easy to see he has big ideas about bringing the green movement to cities and homes across the world. I was amazed at how deeply he understood the core issues of the green movement, and how [...]
Our partners over at EcoFactory were able to catch up with Jerome Ringo of the Apollo Alliance for a few quick questions at Green Cities Florida. Fresh off his workshop “The Color of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth “, Mr. Ringo addresses several issues. A personal favorite is “The problem of nature vs. Nintendo” and [...]
This post is from our good friend Joel Wilcox at EcoFactory.
We here at EcoFactory managed to catch Steve Cochran at Green Cities™ Florida and talk to him a bit about Open Space. It’s quite an impressive concept, to think that you can solve problems that might take weeks of meetings by doing an Open Space [...]
On Gil Friend’s blog, you’ll notice a kind face smiling and a hand pointing as if to say “You and me…we’re going to make it happen.” You wouldn’t figure this man is trained in Aikido, but that may be
why he always seems so peaceful. One of my favorite running themes on his [...]
The saying “Necessity is the mother of invention” has never been more relevant. The world is facing environmental degradation on one side and economic collapse on the other. Fortunately, one can counter with the adage of “crisis is another word for opportunity” still holds true. The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual contest for harvesting [...]
In the run up to this week’s Green Cities Florida Conference in Orlando, Eric Corey Freed, urban sustainability activist and principal of organicARCHITECT, was interviewed on WELE-AM’s Wake Up Daytona. As a speaker at the conference, Freed will address Re:Vision Dallas and draw from the most advanced research in Green Building to offer up a [...]
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