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Marble flooring and... the Taliban?!

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The New York Times recently revealed yet another reason to get your building materials regionally -- or to at least know where they're coming from. With every shipment of the prized white marble from the Ziarat quarry in Pakistan, the Taliban takes a cut.

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Oops... (corrected graphic below)

Well, all you can do when you screw up is try to make it into a learning opportunity, I guess. The image we featured most prominently with our "Counting Carbon" article in July had a blatant error.

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America's buildings are no small contributor to our environmental difficulties and energy use... but they're far from the biggest part of the problem. The enemy is us — the choices we make individually and as a society. America's building envelopes are getting better and tighter, our heating and cooling systems are getting more efficient, but every year we keep using more energy. And our carbon emissions keep going up, not down. Part of the equation, certainly, is that the U.S. builds more buildings and is home to more people all the time.

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In a few days I'll be leaving for the fifth annual Natural Building Colloquium East in Bath, NY. I go every year. So does David Eisenberg and a bunch of other people that I really like.

Is it anything like them green conferences?

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"In spite of persistent claims to the contrary from green advocates, 86% of respondents believe that it costs more to build a green building — and not just by a little." — High Perceived Cost of Green Persists, Says Survey (January 1, 2008)
"The report, the most exhaustive cost-benefit analysis of green building ever undertaken, found that green buildings have an average 0 to 2% increase in first cost over their conventional counterparts, but that they wil

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I have a little treat for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 users: the BuildingGreen.com Search Plugin. With the plugin installed, you can search BuildingGreen.com directly from the search bar in the top right corner of your browser. In the course of a day, I often have to reference a few case studies. The search plugin allows me to get to the case study I need almost immediately. Same goes for an article, green topic, product, etc.

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Sunil Somalwar, a physics professor at Rutgers University, presents the following argument at the Better World Club site:

Let us conservatively say that a Prius goes 40 miles on a gallon of gasoline. After taking into account the 20 lbs CO2 released by burning a gallon of gasoline, 40mpg amounts to two miles per pound of CO2 emission.

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Oh, we've written about lawns over

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How can LEED hope to transform the building industry in an environmental mold if, to highlight the achievements of buildings, it relies on outmoded stores of value whose extraction and use does vast environmental and social harm: Silver, Gold and Platinum? Those, of course, are the three top tiers of achievement for green buildings in the LEED Rating System. The lowest tier?

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Marble flooring and... the Taliban?!

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Counting Carbon... Wrong?

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The Gospel of Consumption

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Mud, Straw, Sticks, Stones

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The High Cost of Green Building

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BuildingGreen.com Search Plugin

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Prius and Prejudice: A Case against the Electric Car

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The Not-So-Green Grass of Home: "Nature purged of sex and death"

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Replacing LEED's heavy metals: Silver, Gold, Platinum

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BuildingGreen Bulletin - Harvesting Drainwater Heat; GreenSpec Updates

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