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What You Might Have Missed This February | Green Building News and then Some

February might have swooped us in a frenzy of love and romance (Either that or increased awareness of singlehood), but that’s no excuse to miss out on some of the interesting stories that made headlines this month. These are…

neoli26 February 2014

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Eco Fashion | From Fibers to Retails Stores

It used to be that fashion and sustainability were at odds with each other. Fashion was traditionally expected to be luxurious, extravagant, and spectacular: more or less what the sustainable movement was opposed to. After all, sustainability is, among other…

neoli22 February 2014

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Green Building, Fungus Building, and Superstitions | News Roundup

Make Way for the Fungus Building Aptly named architectural firm The Living will be “growing” a fungus-based tower on the grounds of the Museum of Modern Art Ps1 (MoMA Ps1) in New York set to be opened in June. The…

neoli16 February 2014

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How Sunlight Factors Into Urban Planning

We’ve always known a bit of sun is good for our health. We always crave for that invigorating sunny stroll in the park, babies appreciate early morning sun baths, and even animals take time to sun themselves. With a…

neoli12 February 2014

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Teaching Green Building to Kids and Everyone Else

They’re teaching kids to code these days, which is good—the next technology visionary could come from their generation so it makes sense to start them early. By the time they hit fifteen or even earlier, these brave, enterprising kids…

neoli7 February 2014

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Banning Fireworks on Chinese New Year

In light of the still-continuing smog problem in China, Beijing is contemplating on banning fireworks on the eve of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Wooden Horse) which falls on January 31. Good luck with that. A man in…

neoli28 January 2014

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When One Green Building Certification Isn’t Enough

Don't get us wrong, we like LEED a lot. We believe in the system not just because it's precisely the line of work we're in, but because over the past twenty years LEED has proven to be objective, rigorous,…

neoli25 January 2014

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On Material Transparency in LEED v4

When LEED v4 became official last year, it finally ushered a new era of transparency for the green building community. It was about time—LEED was two decades old, and along with that maturity comes a more aggressive stance on…

neoli16 January 2014

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Home and Building Insulation in an Age of Freak Weather

Home and Building Insulation in an Age of Freak Weather Great changes are happening to our weather. Super typhoons, off-season tornadoes, heat waves, flash floods, and the recent polar vortex in the U.S. all indicate a new weather norm. Elderly…

neoli12 January 2014

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3D Printing in Green Building

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve deliberately put off writing about 3D printing in our BEE blog for so long. It’s not that we’re not excited about this new technology, because no doubt it’s amazing, it’s revolutionary, and it’ll definitely shake…

neoli4 January 2014