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Recycled Fibers Make Low-VOC Textiles
KnollTextiles' Harmony Collection includes four styles featuring recycled content.
Deck Board Uses Recycled Aluminum
Wahoo Decks' AridDek is a waterproof aluminum deck board.
Wetland System Reuses Water
The Living Machine from Worrell Water Technologies is a decentralized, on-site ecological wastewater treatment and reuse system.
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Light Shelf Brings Daylight Deep Into Interiors
The Luminance light shelf from YKK AP is made of aluminum extrusions and a honeycomb core panel with a highly reflective surface that diffuses daylight deep into inteiror spaces.
Solar Awning System Is Motorized
Tendal One, manufactured by Durasol Awnings Inc., is a motorized, retractable solar awning system designed for balconies, decks, verandas, terraces, and roof gardens.
urban implosion
Focusing on compact urban planning, Arcosanti is a living laboratory for an anti-sprawl city.
Scheduled for completion in 2011, NAU's Health and Learning Center is aiming for LEED Gold certification.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication creates headlines of its own with a sustainable new structure.
Two rival Arizona universities work together to build the Biomedical Collaborative #1 in Phoenix, designed by SmithGroup.
Who’s the greenest of them all?
A look at how competition fosters innovation in the sustainable building realm.
greening phoenix
Dr. Robert Melnick, executive dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, discusses the Green Phoenix plan.
Home office
Designing with the desert heat in mind, [merrz]project provides a versatile structure that accomodates a variety of functions while keeping operating costs low.
It’s a gas
Using a series of wells or blower, flare, or vacuum systems, landfill gas can be extracted and converted into usable energy
listening to the land
The fundamental principals of landscape architecture and site design are now resonating with developers, investors, and corporate users and in turn, also are influencing building design.
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose—Doing Business By Respecting the Earth
Ray C. Anderson's new book chronicles the journey of transforming a carpet manufacturing giant into a green leader
Happenings: The latest green building industry news
A look at the latest headlines and developements in the green building industry
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first WaterSense specification for a commercial building product: urinals.
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The White House continues to make sustainability a priority.
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The economic downturn in the commercial real estate industry has diminished the importance of climate change and alternative energy sources as a factor in real estate investment decisions, according to a survey of U.S.
Energy technologies developed for the Solar Decathlon may take on a second life in mass-market production following the biannual competition.
KnollTextiles' Harmony Collection includes four styles featuring recycled content.
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Wahoo Decks' AridDek is a waterproof aluminum deck board.
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The Living Machine from Worrell Water Technologies is a decentralized, on-site ecological wastewater treatment and reuse system.
The Luminance light shelf from YKK AP is made of aluminum extrusions and a honeycomb core panel with a highly reflective surface that diffuses daylight deep into inteiror spaces.
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Tendal One, manufactured by Durasol Awnings Inc., is a motorized, retractable solar awning system designed for balconies, decks, verandas, terraces, and roof gardens.
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Focusing on compact urban planning, Arcosanti is a living laboratory for an anti-sprawl city.
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Scheduled for completion in 2011, NAU's Health and Learning Center is aiming for LEED Gold certification.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication creates headlines of its own with a sustainable new structure.
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Two rival Arizona universities work together to build the Biomedical Collaborative #1 in Phoenix, designed by SmithGroup.
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A look at how competition fosters innovation in the sustainable building realm.
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Dr. Robert Melnick, executive dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, discusses the Green Phoenix plan.
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Designing with the desert heat in mind, [merrz]project provides a versatile structure that accomodates a variety of functions while keeping operating costs low.
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Using a series of wells or blower, flare, or vacuum systems, landfill gas can be extracted and converted into usable energy
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The fundamental principals of landscape architecture and site design are now resonating with developers, investors, and corporate users and in turn, also are influencing building design.
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Ray C. Anderson's new book chronicles the journey of transforming a carpet manufacturing giant into a green leader
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Team Germany’s surPLUShome took first place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon.