Recycled Decking Manufacturers Launch Virgin PVC Options
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In the BuildingGreen Suite we have a Discussions feature on just about every page that allows members to respond to content with their comments and questions.
GreenSpec at Greenbuild
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Every year before Greenbuild I go through the exhibitor listings to see which ones have products in GreenSpec. At the show, I first visit the booths that don't (we're already familiar with a majority of those, but in this growing industry there are always new contenders), and then make a second sweep to catch up with anything new from the ones that do. At past shows, I've run out of time before getting through the whole thing; quite a frustration.
239 strawbale buildings in France
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A post came through one of the too-many email lists I monitor: the nonprofit Empreinte ("print"—as in "footprint"), in conjunction with the French straw building network, Les Compaillons, started an online database of French strawbale buildings, and have so far registered 239 of them.
How Green is Greenbuild?
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Here in the office, we've been gearing up for Greenbuild, the 6th annual trade show of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). We're there every year—stop in and see us at booth 849. Fully half of our staff will be attending. I'll be snooping around; tune in here for the next best thing to being there.
LIVE Contributor: Tristan Roberts
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As managing editor for BuildingGreen, I run our efforts, through Environmental Building News, to monitor key news and product developments in the green building industry and bring them to you, our readers, in a thorough and engaging way.
In the last year I've written feature articles for EBN like "Cradle to Cradle Certification: A Peek Inside MBDC's Black Box," "Historic Prese
BuildingGreen Bulletin, November 2007: EBN
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LIVE Contributor: Nadav Malin
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I am vice president of BuildingGreen, Inc., editor of Environmental Building News, and coeditor of the GreenSpec product directory. I also work with McGraw-Hill Construction on GreenSource magazine, which has earned me a spot on the masthead as executive editor.
LIVE Contributor: Alex Wilson
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Alex Wilson is the Executive Editor of Environmental Building News. For more than 25 years Alex has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction. Prior to starting his own company in 1985 (now BuildingGreen, Inc.), he was executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for five years; before that he taught workshops on the construction of solar greenhouses in New Mexico in the late '70s.
The Abersush Home for Old Men
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Because it made me laugh when I read it during lunch today, a passage by the inimitable Ambrose Bierce from his short story, The Applicant:
"It is a somewhat dull-looking edifice, of the Early Comatose order, and appears to have been designed by an architect who shrank from publicity, and although unable to conceal his work—even compelled, in this instance, to set it on an eminence in the sight of men—did what he honestly could to insure it against a second look."Not that there's anything wrong with that.
LIVE Contributer: Philip Scheffer
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Hello! My name is Philip Scheffer. I am a web developer/help desk support/ikea-furniture-puter-together-er at BuildingGreen. I have been working here since Feb. '07 while on hiatus from college (I guess I should call it a leave of absence since its been longer than 6 months... I should probably finish eh?)
I grew up in the boondocks of Weathersfield, Vermont and rather enjoyed it! I really like living in the city but in the long run, miss the mountains.