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Commercial Kitchens: Cooking Up Green Opportunities

Commercial Kitchens: Cooking Up Green Opportunities

Commercial kitchens run energy- and water-intensive equipment for long hours, sometimes even when not in use. While the challenges of...
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Cool Products From Greenbuild 2009: An Expo Floor Tour

Alex Wilson provides a tour of 37 innovative products from the U.S. Green Building Council's 2009 Greenbuild conference in Phoenix.
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Mobile Photovoltaic Power Generators

Mobile photovoltaic generators can provide a silent power supply for construction sites and other off-grid applications without the use of...
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New Tax Credit Limits Window Choices

The $1,500 tax credit for energy-efficient windows that is currently available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act only covers...
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Dow Styrofoam Cradle to Cradle Certified, Despite Chemistry

Dow Chemical’s Styrofoam extruded polystyrene has been awarded Cradle-to-Cradle Silver certification by MBDC, despite some questionable environmental characteristics.
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Mobile Photovoltaic Power Generators

Yestermorrow School says, “At the Yestermorrow Design/Build School (www.yestermorrow.org) we've been using a mobile PV generator we made ourselves for about five years...” More...


Radiant Floor Heating: Wrong Choice for Green Homes?

Maggie Carnevale says, “I do think there is a point here with super high performance smaller homes. If every home could be heated...” More...

Peter Yost says, “This is a great exchange of insights on radiant floor systems. I just wanted to add two: 1. On average, radiant...” More...

L. Frederick Dure says, “We installed the Wirsbo floor tubing in a 3 in concrete slab elevated floor in our Alaska bush (off grid...” More...

John Swearingen says, “We have similar results to Gary in his area with our strawbale homes. In a 2800SF home in Sonoma, they...” More...

A. George Beeler says, “I have stopped using radiant heat for both residential, school & commercial buildings for all of the reasons that you...” More...


New Tax Credit Limits Window Choices

John Dalzell says, “The short sightedness of the ARRA approach to windows goes well beyond missing desired solar heat gain to completely failing...” More...


Radiant Floor Heating: Wrong Choice for Green Homes?

Gary Pugh says, “I am a SIP builder in northern CA. My clients that put in radient floor systems report that it rarely...” More...


Greening Your Firm: Building Sustainable Design Capabilities

Barbra Batshalom says, “This is a great article - especially in light of our new Sustainable Performance Institute certification which measures and recognizes...” More...