http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm BuildingGreen.com LIVE en-us Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:04:59 GMT BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss live@buildinggreen.com live@buildinggreen.com http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/19/Greening-Sin-City Years ago a friend and I borrowed my mother's minivan, left our small college, and drove west in search of the Great American Wilderness. For months we steered clear of cities in favor of National Parks and Forests, but as we passed through the Sie... [More] Editorial Radar Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/19/Greening-Sin-City http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/18/Alexs-Cool-Product-of-the-Week-Zehnders-HighEfficiency-HRV-Systems Our next feature article for Environmental Building News is on the Passive House standard for ultra-low-energy buildings--a standard that originated about 20 years ago in Germany. Excitement about Passive House in North America is resulting in some... [More] Alex's Cool Product of the Week Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:24:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/18/Alexs-Cool-Product-of-the-Week-Zehnders-HighEfficiency-HRV-Systems http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/17/People-Like-UrineSeparating-Toilets If you've been following this blog for a while, you know that I wrote about urine-separating toilets last year. You'll also know that I'm rather enamored of the image at right. So you can imagine how gleeful I was when I discovered I had another re... Editorial Radar Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:55:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/17/People-Like-UrineSeparating-Toilets http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/16/Green-Remodeling-Workshops-Coming-to-a-Town-Near-You Ever since the premier of USGBC's two-day REGREEN workshop in Phoenix, AZ at Greenbuild last November, Annette, Rob, and I have been gearing up for a slew of green remodeling workshops across the country -- the REGREEN Roadshow. The REGREEN worksho... [More] Events Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:40:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/16/Green-Remodeling-Workshops-Coming-to-a-Town-Near-You http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/16/Green-Building-Myth-3-Green-Products-Dont-Work-as-Well-as-Standard-Products The last couple weeks I've written about two of the common myths of green building: that it has to cost more to build green and that green building is mostly about materials. This week I'll cover another myth: that green building products don't per... [More] Energy Solutions Product Talk Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:38:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/16/Green-Building-Myth-3-Green-Products-Dont-Work-as-Well-as-Standard-Products http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/15/Doing-LEED-SSc8-Light-pollution-reduction-in-a-nutshell The following is a video that we recorded at our booth at the 2009 Greenbuild conference, when we transformed BuildingGreen's booth into the "Ask LEEDuser" experience, including talks on specific credits from LEEDuser's "guest experts"--the top LEED ... LEED Mister Tristan Talks LEED Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:09:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/15/Doing-LEED-SSc8-Light-pollution-reduction-in-a-nutshell http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/10/There-IS-a-certification-for-hazardfree-products Go figure I'd finish a feature article (Chemistry for Designers: Understanding Hazards in Building Products) saying there's no certification in the USA for products that are hazard-free and immediately a label gets launched. That's ok, I have no co... Product Talk Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/10/There-IS-a-certification-for-hazardfree-products http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/10/Green-Building-Myth-Its-All-About-Materials Last week I wrote about one of the common myths of green building: that it has to cost more to build green. This week, I'll tackle another myth: that green building is mostly about materials. This isn't quite as significant a misconception as it w... [More] Energy Solutions Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:42:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/10/Green-Building-Myth-Its-All-About-Materials http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/9/Knoll-Continues-Environmental-Leadership-by-Providing-FSC-as-a-Standard-Feature We've been writing about the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Environmental Building News since the organization was created in 1993. We've watched as FSC pushed the mainstream forest products industry toward more responsible forestry practices ... [More] Alex's Cool Product of the Week Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:04:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/9/Knoll-Continues-Environmental-Leadership-by-Providing-FSC-as-a-Standard-Feature http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/8/Mr-Tristan-Talks-LEED--Episode-1--LEEDCertified-Bar We've just filmed Episode #1 of our new LEED update show! We've got:A Tip of the Day (on LEED BD&C SSc8),A Q&A on LEED's Minimum Program Requirements featuring a discussion on LEED site boundaries by Phoebe Kincaid and Shannon Gray,and I can't say wh... Mister Tristan Talks LEED Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:54:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/8/Mr-Tristan-Talks-LEED--Episode-1--LEEDCertified-Bar http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/4/Does-Green-Building-Have-to-Cost-More Even if a small house has lower levels of insulation than a larger house, it's likely to cost less to heat. 1. R-19 walls, R-30 ceilings, double-low-e (U=0.36) vinyl windows, R-4.4 doors, infiltration of .50 ACH, and R-6 ducts in attic; 2. R-13 walls... [More] Energy Solutions Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:54:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/4/Does-Green-Building-Have-to-Cost-More http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/3/Alexs-Cool-Product-of-the-Week-FiberOptic-Daylighting-from-Parans Simple is good, but high-tech can be really cool. In the case of the Parans fiber-optic daylighting system (distributed in the U.S. by HUVCO), high-tech lets you distribute daylight up to sixty feet via optical cables--bringing full-spectrum natura... [More] Alex's Cool Product of the Week Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:04:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/3/Alexs-Cool-Product-of-the-Week-FiberOptic-Daylighting-from-Parans http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/3/LEED-AP-Credential-Maintenance-Cracking-the-Code I'm a "Legacy LEED AP"--one of the 150,000 or so people who became LEED APs before the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) retired the old exam and overhauled the LEED AP program in 2009. I've got questions. Is it worth opting in to th... [More] LEED Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:32:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/3/LEED-AP-Credential-Maintenance-Cracking-the-Code http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/2/Chemical-Hazards-The-Devils-in-the-Details-and-the-Answers-Are-Not I've wanted to write a practitioners guide to addressing chemicals in building products for a while now, and with new developments like the Perkins+Will Precautionary List, The launch of Pharos, The EPA's announcement on a new approach to chemical ... [More] Science & Tech Product Talk Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:08:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/3/2/Chemical-Hazards-The-Devils-in-the-Details-and-the-Answers-Are-Not http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/2/24/Alexs-Cool-Product-of-the-Week-Crees-Par-38-LED-Lamp-a-Winner-but-expensive Back in 1990, when I built a new garage and office space at my home in Dummerston, Vermont (where BuildingGreen started out), I installed two sections of Lightolier lighting track with dual switching for use of whatever screw-in lamps I wanted to u... [More] Alex's Cool Product of the Week Product Talk Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:21:00 GMT http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2010/2/24/Alexs-Cool-Product-of-the-Week-Crees-Par-38-LED-Lamp-a-Winner-but-expensive