BuildingGreen Goes Back to School with New Classroom Tools

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Many professors use EBN feature articles as course material. We're always looking for ways to make their lives easier.

We are already adding blankets to our beds here in Vermont, and it's still dark when my husband and I get up for our early-morning run. Looks like time to wean the kids off their late-to-bed/late-to-rise schedule and remember the meaning of the phrase "school night."

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Home Unimprovement: A Tale of Two Houses

Home unimprovement: during renovation, the removal from a building of misguided features or home "improvements" added during previous renovations.
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A simple, sturdy house on Peaks Island, Maine, around 1900. Photo: City of Portland

Home unimprovement, noun. During renovation, the removal from a building of misguided features or home "improvements" added during previous renovations.

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Solar Thermal, Water, and Cold Climates: Can't We All Get Along?

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36,597 square feet of Ritter XL solar collectors were installed on an exhibition hall in Wels, Austria, providing almost 7 million Btu/hr of supplemental hot water for district heating. Photo: Ritter Group

Most solar thermal systems installed in cold climates use antifreeze, but Ritter XL Solar is engineering its systems with water.

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Old Window? 10 Tips for Improving Performance

Here are some tips on deciding what do to with old, under-performing windows
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As I was hosing down the dirt driveway in front of my house last week to keep the dust down with some guests due to arrive, I got to thinking about Chicken Dinner Road.

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Improving Your Windows with Plastic Film Kits, Insulated Shades, and Interior Storm Windows

It's easy to augment your existing windows to keep the heat in better, but some "window attachments" are better than others.
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Try this little perceptual experiment now: look at yourself in a mirror (or your computer or phone camera). Then look at your left eye, and then your right eye, and then back and forth several times. What do you see?

If someone else is around, ask them to look at you, and look back and forth between your eyes.

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LEED 2012 – 2nd Public Comment – Performance (PF) Section

Key changes in the the Performance (PF) section of LEED-NC (part of LEED BD&C) in the second public comment draft of LEED 2012 are discussed below.
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Do you have comments or questions on this draft? Discuss them below with your fellow LEED professionals. Substantive comments posted here during USGBC's second public comment period  will be submitted to USGBC and considered "official" public comments.

More information on LEED 2012 certification and the second public comment

Performance (PF)

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LEED 2012 – 2nd Public Comment – Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Section

Key changes in the the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) section of LEED-NC (part of LEED BD&C) in the second public comment draft of LEED 2012 are discussed below.
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 Do you have comments or questions on this draft? Discuss them below with your fellow LEED professionals. Substantive comments posted here during USGBC's second public comment period  will be submitted to USGBC and considered "official" public comments.

More information on LEED 2012 certification and the second public comment

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)

Major Changes

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LEED 2012 – 2nd Public Comment – Materials & Resources (MR) Section

Key changes in the the Materials & Resources (MR) section of LEED-NC (part of LEED BD&C) in the second public comment draft of LEED 2012 are discussed below.
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 Do you have comments or questions on this draft? Discuss them below with your fellow LEED professionals. Substantive comments posted here during USGBC's second public comment period  will be submitted to USGBC and considered "official" public comments.

More information on LEED 2012 certification and the second public comment

Materials and Resources (MR)

Major Changes

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