Regular readers might remember the toilet-flushing video from March that showed ridiculous quantities of carrots, chess pieces, Gummi bears, hot dogs, plastic letters and numbers, grapes, golf balls, and dog food getting flushed. Fun, but it didn’t q…
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September 1st, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Product Talk
As a follow-on to the previous post (Natural Building in the Shadow of the U.S. Capitol), the strawbale journal The Last Straw — which started publishing right around the same time as Environmental Building News — has expanded its web pre…
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August 21st, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Nature & Nurture
In the wake of the pictures of that 13-story apartment building that fell over, here’s video of a multistory factory building rolling over and coming to rest upside-down, largely intact.
Success and failure are often matters of perspective.
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August 13th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Miscellania
You might know about Annette Stelmack — chair of ASID’s National Sustainable Design Council; named a “Top Ten Green Design Guru” by Innovative Home magazine; principal of the design firm Inspirit-llc; and co-author of the book Sustainable Res…
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July 19th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Case Studies
The label says:Bottled at Source — Hand Pump #1, Atal Ayub Nagar, Bhopal, Madya Pradesh, India.
And in tiny print:Not suitable for human consumption.
The nutrition label says:
Total Fat 0gCholesterol 0gSodium 22mgDichlormethaneCarbon Tet…
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July 14th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Nature & Nurture, Politics
Another in an ongoing series of webinars offered for free from our sister site, GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, is coming up on Tuesday, July 14, at 4 p.m. Eastern.
The market for green building keeps growing as more and more people recognize that it …
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July 10th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, The Industry
Here’s a free webinar (this Wednesday, July 8, at 4 p.m. ET) for you green contractor types about getting the subs on board — or at least in line with the goals of green. Chances are good that there will be things worth knowing for non-professi…
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July 5th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, The Industry
BuildingGreen’s Michael Wentz has been coordinating for some time with DOE on case studies of the green rebuilding of Greensburg, Kansas, which had 90% of its buildings destroyed by a tornado in 2007. He described the work in a blog post here last ye…
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July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Case Studies
GreenBuildingAdvisor.com offers up another free webcast on June 29 at 4 p.m. Eastern. Rob Moody, consultant at Organic Think, LEED Faculty member, and partner in the National Center for Sustainability will be talking about current and future funding …
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June 26th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Events
Recently, I broke one of my long-standing rules and blogged about something BuildingGreen-related at my own blog. My Costanzian fears were indeed warranted, and I’ve been egged on to cross-post it to the Live blog. Here she is, warts and all: my unva…
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June 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Behind the Scenes, Books & Media, Case Studies, Miscellania, Product Talk, Q&A, The Industry