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BuildingGreen Bulletin, May 2008: Environmental Building News Updates

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"Green buildings have captured the imagination of many in the mainstream, but for green professionals the time has come to stop designing for mere energy efficiency and start designing to regenerate and restore.

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Amy Levin and friendsphoto: Heidi Glenn, NPR

I was a pretty lucky guy this past week. Firstly, I got to be in Washington, DC near the peak of their spring blossom season on a picture perfect day. Secondly, I was there to talk with National Public Radio's Robert Siegel and realtor Amy Levin about her LEED for Homes Platinum (pending) gut rehab of a townhome in Mt.

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With the addition of three new case studies from the 2008 AIA COTE Top Ten awards (Aldo Leopold Legacy Center - Platinum; Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery - Platinum; Macallen Building Condominiums - Gold), BuildingGreen.com now features over 100 LEED certified building case studies from the High Performance Build

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Last year, our own Alex Wilson served as a judge for the Lifecycle Building Challenge, a competition organized by West Coast Green, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Building Materials Reuse Association, The American Institute of Architects, Collaborative for High-Performance Schools, and Southface Energy Institute. There are two main categories: buildings and ideas. In either category, the idea is to design a project that takes a material's entire lifecycle into account.

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Rebecca Henn, AIA, was a jury member for the 2008 AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects awards. She is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, studying how sustainability influences the building team, and although you won't find it in her official bio, she worked here at BuildingGreen during the summer of 2006. I called on the connection to ask for her perspective on the Top Ten experience.

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Peter Yost is Vice President - Technical Serviceas for BuildingGreen, Inc. in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has been building, researching, teaching, writing, and consulting on high performance homes for more than twenty-five years. His expertise stretches from construction waste management and advanced framing to energy efficiency and building durability.

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Smith & Fong's bamboo plywood panels are now available with FSC-certified bamboo.

If you're a regular reader of the posts here on BuildingGreen.com LIVE, you might remember that we had a couple folks from Smith & Fong in our offices back in January.

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One summer day a few years ago I was standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon expecting to look down and across at light and shadows melding with multicolored layers of bedrock, the whitewater from the Colorado River calmly glistening a mile below as it carves through rock and time itself... etc etc. Instead, I found my gaze drawn to a line of gray clouds blowing in from the west. They didn't look like rain clouds, and it wasn't long before I discovered it was smog carried on the wind all the way from Los Angeles.

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BuildingGreen Bulletin, May 2008: Environmental Building News Updates

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Green Buildings and Infrastructure Are Half the Solution

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Walking the Talk: A Realtor's LEED for Homes Platinum Gut Rehab in Washington, DC.

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100 LEED Case Studies

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Lifecycle Building Challenge, Take Two

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How the 2008 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects were chosen

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LIVE Contributor: Peter Yost

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BuildingGreen Bulletin, April 2008: GreenSpec Updates

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FSC-certified bamboo? Yes.

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CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources

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