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chelseagreen.com - 5/6/2009
Building a Home? Find Green, Not Greenwashing
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The following is an excerpt from When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein. It has been adapted for the Web. To evaluate whether a given building material or system is truly “green,” one must look at the whole ...
smdp.com - 5/10/2009
Green is an expensive designation
— smdp.com — May 07, 2009 DOWNTOWN There's the cost of going green, and then there's the cost of letting... everyone know about it. One of the largest local developers of affordable housing, Community Corporation of Santa Monica owns approximately 80 properties in ... (more) Green is an expensive designation

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Los Vecinos: First Platinum LEED-Certified, 100% Solar Powered, Affordable Housing in San Diego
treehugger.com - 5/7/2009
Los Vecinos: First Platinum LEED-Certified, 100% Solar Powered, Affordable Housing in San Diego
— treehugger.com — Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation :artist's rendering Los Vecinos , the first LEED-Certified Platinum ,... 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 ... (more) Los Vecinos: First Platinum LEED-Certified, 100% Solar ...

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Needed: Leadership From Architects and Designers
worldchanging.com - 5/3/2009
Needed: Leadership From Architects and Designers
— worldchanging.com — Julia Levitt: We need new leadership from architects, planners and designers. Yes, we need them to design... better buildings, streets and public spaces. But what we may... (more) Needed: Leadership From Architects and Designers

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Ramsay Home — ... systems using structural insulated concrete panels (SCIPs) that further optimize and reduce both the cement and structural steel content and offer the benefit of a high thermal mass in contact with the living spaces to help stabilize inside air temperatures, further reducing both initial material requirements and energy consumption. Read the rest of the article, Building a Home? Find ...

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