Posted live from Greenbuild.
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At the Selux booth, I'm told that these will be introduced to the market shortly, intended for grid intertie.
Their standalone PV area lighting has been on the market for some time.
Posted live from Greenbuild.
Rock-filled channels between parking rows drain to a large detention area beside the lot.
In the background, rental cranes dance in the sky.
Posted live from Greenbuild.
Stream it if you aren't here. (You'll have to set up a username and password.)
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Our BuildingGreen after-party starts in about a half-hour, and I'm the designated greeter/bouncer; about 300 people are expected. (It was decided to have our after-party on the first night, which I think was a darned good idea.) So probably no more posts from here tonight (from me anyway) unless I find some active brain cells and wifi.
UPDATE - three pics after the jump...
We humans number about 6.5 billion. How many trees are there? NASA has been taking satellite pictures of the Earth's forests for years and sharing them with ecologists who have figured out an algorithm for calculating worldwide tree totals based on patterns of sunlight.
Hey, you Twitterers (there must be a few of you out there)... in addition to posting here, we'll be microblogging from Greenbuild. You don't need an account to follow along.
Additionally, there's a #greenbuild hash that people are already using — you can follow everyone's Greenbuild Tweets here.
The 140 acre array of photovoltaic panels at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada generates 14 megawatts of power..
Last Friday a few of us gathered around a phone behind the closed doors of one of the conference rooms here at BuildingGreen and had a chat with John Bacus from Google's team of SketchUp developers, and Aaron Stein, one of their PR folks. The supersecret talk was about the next release of that program — SketchUp 7 — which within the last couple hours has gone public.
In honor of itself (hmm... was really the best way for me to kick off this post?), the USGBC has done a kind of a cool thing. A letter released to its membership says,
... when we reflected on how best we could mark our anniversary as a community of leaders called the U.S. Green Building Council, we decided that the story was best told in your words.
Over the last few months I have been working with a group of people from Greensburg GreenTown and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to create case studies of new buildings in Greensburg, Kansas. We recently launched the website at greensburg.buildinggreen.com with an initial offering of 6 buildings.
If M. Night Shyamalan did a movie on carbon emissions, it might look something like this. The Alliance for Climate Protection has a video that helps homeowners visualize their carbon emissions. After all, they're colorless, odorless, and come with a nifty time-delay of consequences that can lull a person into thinking that it's all going to be fine.
