What's Your Water IQ?
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The folks who make Waterless No-Flush urinals (we've had one in our office since 1998) have been distributing the following quiz.
Green Building Products radio interview
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I'll be interviewed about GreenSpec and Green Building Products this evening on Santa Fe Public Radio, KSFR, at 7:10 p.m. (Eastern time), for 15 or 20 minutes. Tune in if you'd like — 101.1 FM if you're in New Mexico (pretty much anywhere between Taos and Albuquerque)...
Desmond Tutu and Green Building?
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The U.S. Green Building Council has announced its Greenbuild keynote speaker for 2008: Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It's an interesting choice, following on the heels of Vice President Al Gore being given half of the Nobel Prize for peace, that reinforces the connection between social justice and environmental performance. What will Tutu have to say about green building?
I think he might have something to say about globalism, about the effects that choices in the U.S. have on countries that are very far away geographically and culturally.
Fail early, fail often, and other riffs from Bruce Sterling
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"There's one thing worse than being young and full of stormy tantrums, and that's being old and backward-looking and crotchety."
So said Bruce Sterling (author, thinker, critic, doer) in this year's annual rollicking and roving discussion of the state of the world at The Well — the still-kicking "Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link" founded by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant in 1985 (more than 20 years ago!) for the writers and readers of the seminal, sadly defunct Whole Earth Review.
Face It: the 2030 Challenge moving forward
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I mentioned this in passing the other day, but it deserves to be given more attention.
Beyond LEED
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An interesting conversation about what lies beyond LEED has been happening over the last few days on the Big Green email list. Some excerpts of the exchange follow. (I've done some editing, and added links.
BuildingGreen Bulletin, January 2008: Environmental Building News
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Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time.
Read the current bulletinProduct Certifications and Ratings Systems... it's all so gooey
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The GreenSpec team is regularly contacted by manufacturers and their marketers asking how to get products "certified as green." The question itself reveals one of two things: that they either haven't done any work yet to understand what it is they're actually asking... or that they have. In the first case, good on 'em for looking into it.
Studying for the LEED-AP Test
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7/1/09 Update: The LEED AP exam has significantly changed, and the following information has not been updated to reflect this.
Notes from Sweden #4: CHP and District Heating
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