Why Fresh Air Helps You Think: Top 5 Stories This Week
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Squeezing big box stores (and more people) into cities, living in a CO2 fog, and tallying up the value of green homes.
The "Värm" home from Bensonwood's Unity Homes offshoot is inspired by Swedish design.Photo Credit: Unity HomesHow much more dense can you get?
It turns out you can get pretty darn dense even without building mile
An alternate approach to meeting IAQ standards
Subjective evaluation - Panel
Panel participants may be regular occupants of the project building, visitors to the building (i.e. customers of a retail establishment), or individuals with no connection to the project building. Composition of the panel in this regard is at the discretion of the project team.
Heating With Wood Safely and Efficiently
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Understanding wood stoves and wood heat so that you can educate your clients.
Vermont Castings Encore-NC wood stove with an EPA emissions rating of 0.7 grams per hour. Click to enlarge.Photo Credit: Vermont CastingsI’ve been heating primarily with wood since I bought our house 31 years ago, though there were a few years following our installation of an oil boiler when wood consumption dropped considerably.
The Green Building Community Has Lost One of Its Pillars
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Our friend and mentor, Malcolm Lewis, has passed away
Malcolm Lewis will be sorely missed.Photo Credit: Harvey Mudd CollegeMalcolm Lewis, Ph.D., the founder of Constructive Technologies Group, a member of the EBN Advisory Board, and long a quiet leader in the green building movement, died on October 13th of bladder cancer.
How Well Do You Know LEED v4? Answers to the LEEDuser Quiz
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The fifth draft of LEED v4 (formerly LEED 2012) is now out for public comment, and while there have been a lot of changes through the evolution of the next version of LEED, many of the key concepts and programs that it references appear to be taking hold.
Good News and Bad News With the World Glut in Solar Panels
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When China dives into a technology, it does so in a big way. Nowhere is this more the case than in photovoltaic (PV) panel manufacturing, where dramatic growth has not only taken a toll on other manufacturers around the world, but also now threatens its own PV industry through rampant oversupply.
MPR6 Supplemental Guidance from USGBC
This Bird's Eye View text is from USGBC's MPR Supplemental Guidance Revision #2. See the Credit Language tab for the MPR requirements.