Notes from "Be a Product Detective: Sleuthing the Truth About Building Materials"
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Jennifer Atlee has posted notes from the session she co-presented at USGBC Cascadia chapter's Living Future 'Unconference'. See them here.
BuildingGreen Bulletin: Why Use Air Barriers? - June EBN
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Read the current bulletinDoes biomass power increase carbon emissions?
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Does wind power increase carbon emissions? That was the question I asked in a recent post after seeing a analysis by Stanley Rhodes of Scientific Certification Systems, a major testing and certification agency for green building products, among other things.
ASU Campus Metabolism
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I just learned about Arizona State University's new building energy/resource use dashboard called Campus Metabolism. The dashboard was apparently put together by a team of students and is currently up and running for their new Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) building, with more buildings to come on line in the future.
Here it Comes: The Year of Greenwash
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Michelle Moore, a senior vice president of the USGBC, recently spent a day in our offices. Speculating on the shapes of things to come both near and far, she said something that stuck with me: "We're entering the year of greenwash." As if it wasn't already bad enough.
The reduction of social and environmental movements to merchandising means that a cause has hit the big time... but the increased breadth tends to come with a commensurate loss of depth.
"More Big Changes Ahead Predicted for Green Building"
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Peter Yost gave a presentation at the NAHB National Green Building Conference in New Orleans last week. Nation's Building News ("The Official Online Weekly Newspaper of NAHB") has a nice piece on it. Excerpted:
In 1999, people didn't talk about carbon-neutral or zero-energy homes, and the American public was largely unconcerned about global warming. There were only 7,000 Energy Star-certified homes.
BuildingGreen Bulletin - Next Generation of LEED; GreenSpec Updates
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Read the current bulletinMaking vs. Assembling
I love people that make, rather than assemble. The old-world built environment had a character of imperfection, a dose of wabi sabi, odd and lumpy bits that represent a connection that's both human and natural.
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I have a huge amount of appreciation and respect for (and some jealousy of) people plying artisan trades, and had a couple good conversations with AIA'08 exhibitors offering that sort of thing. John Canning & Company goes beyond artisan; check out the featured projects on their website. In my capacity as poster boy for the A Little Knowledge Club, we chatted a bit about lime plaster and mortar while I stood in awe of their portfolio.