Ten years ago, in

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Vol. 2, No. 6, we devoted precisely two sentences to alerting our readers that the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Green Building Council were planning a Green Building Conference, to take place in Gaithersburg, Maryland in February 1994. “The conference will cover assessment... Read more

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In an effort to walk the talk of sustainability, the U.S. Green Building Council sought to green the Greenbuild conference itself. Holding the event in a LEED Gold-rated conference center was a great first step.

In addition, conference programs, name-badge holders, and cloth bags were made of recycled materials. Hotels were asked to... Read more

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Vol. 12, No. 10) has a new name:

The Invironmentalists™. According to the company, the new name “reflects the growing responsibility we are taking for the care of our clients’ interior environments beyond products and... Read more

Vol. 12, No. 11), we ran a product review of straw-particleboard casework from Case Systems, Inc. of Midland, Michigan. At Greenbuild, we learned of a similar ag-fiber casework product that has been around even longer.

LSI Corporation of America, based in Minneapolis, introduced an option for ag-fiber-based... Read more

GreenSpec Directory during the past year. This year’s winners cover a wide spectrum of products and applications, and highlight the ongoing innovation in the building-... Read more

It’s impossible to do justice to the breadth of what took place at Greenbuild in a short article, but here is a sampling of what

EBN’s editors and colleagues whom we queried took in.

Ten simultaneous educational sessions in seven time slots, along with poster presentations in the lobby, made up the core of the conference. There... Read more

Falcon Waterfree Technologies of Grand Rapids, Michigan have announced an alliance that should bring waterfree urinals closer to the mainstream. Falcon will manufacture and supply both vitreous-china waterless-urinal fixtures and replacement cartridges to Sloan, who will bring them to market. “... Read more

In late September,

Haworth, Inc. and

Interface, Inc. closed a deal transferring the assets of Interface Architectural Resources (InterfaceAR) to Haworth. The acquisition, which includes certain inventory, real estate, fixed assets, and intellectual property of InterfaceAR, gives Haworth the most complete line of raised access... Read more

The oldest building in the complex dates from 1902, with a major... Read more

EPA announced in early November that it will drop investigations into 50 power plants accused of violating the Clean Air Act. Under the new policy, EPA will pursue only those investigations in which the plants are accused of violating new, more lenient standards set to take effect in December (see EBN Vol. 12, No. 10). The change could also... Read more

FPL Energy, LLC recently dedicated two new wind farms in the western U.S. The New Mexico Wind Energy Center, near Fort Sumner, is the world’s third-largest wind farm, producing 204 MW of electricity—enough to power 94,000 homes. The High Winds Energy Center, located along the Montezuma Hills in Solano County, California, is the largest wind... Read more

BuildingGreen is honored to be among the winners of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC) Best Practice Sustainability Awards, announced at Greenbuild:

• Special Achievement in Communications: BuildingGreen, Inc.;

•  Innovative Daylighting System: Solar Components Corporation and  Kalwall Corporation;

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In the run-up to the Greenbuild conference, USGBC and The Pittsburgh Project, a Christian community-development organization that operates after-school and summer programs for Pittsburgh children, collaborated on a straw-bale construction clinic. Led by David Eisenberg, author of The Straw Bale House Book and executive director of the... Read more

The Calgary, Alberta company Nysan introduced a PVC-free interior shade-screen product line at the Pittsburgh Greenbuild conference.

Until this product introduction, there were about eight manufacturers of shade-screen systems for commercial buildings, including Nysan, all of which used PVC-coated screening—usually either woven... Read more

The Boston City Council unanimously passed a resolution in October establishing city purchasing guidelines that favor materials that do not produce dioxin, a potent human carcinogen and endocrine disrupter. Dioxin is released when chlorinated products, including chlorine-bleached paper and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), are manufactured and... Read more

The Sustainable Industries Journal, a monthly publication focusing on economic gain through environmental innovation in the Pacific Northwest, has recognized its top-ranked businesses in a number of sustainable industries. Among the winners are:

• Forest Stewardship Council-Certified Forest: Collins Lakeview Forest in Lakeview, Oregon... Read more