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The county building incorporates many “green building” features, including:
- energy-efficient appliances and light fixtures
- building materials with recycled content
- water-saving plumbing fixtures
- water-efficient landscaping
- extensive use of natural light.
And it's the first homeless shelter in the country to receive a Green Globes rating for its sound, energy and environmental- design practices and will be recognized by the Green Building Initiative for this distinction at a later time.
Source: http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=85107&paper=62&cat=104
Check out the cost breakdown here.
Building features:
- Straw bale, tight envelope construction solar radiant in-floor heating system
- Photovoltaic electrical
- Potable water collection and filtration system
- Environmentally sound and healthy construction materials including paints & wood treatments
- Energy efficient windows
- Recycled materials throughout
- Solar wall used to warm the fresh air for the “Life Breath” heat recovery ventilator
- Naturalized and xeriscaped green spaces
What do you do with a town that has been leveled by a tornado?...
"Discovery’s new eco-lifestyle channel Planet Green is partnering with actor and avid environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio to help launch the channel early next year with a touching environmentally-friendly project. DiCaprio is set to executive produce “Eco-Town,” a 13-part reality series which will follow state and local officials in their quest to build an ecologically—and economically—sustainable town in Kansas, aptly named Greenburg."
Source: http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/23/leonardo-di-caprio-to-build-eco-town-in-kansas
"Canada's largest metropolitan area has joined Raleigh, NC in fostering a city-wide program to use and evaluate LED lighting. [LEDCity] initiative fosters collaboration among municipalities as they deploy energy-efficient lighting to deliver cost savings and environmental benefits. LEDs appearing throughout parks, parking garages and in architectural lighting over the coming months. Toronto already hosts a number of high profile LED installations, including LED streetlights at Exhibition Place, the Harbinger color-changing installation, and of course the CN Tower (CN Tower ... LED lighting... is designed to use 60% less energy than the Tower's lighting did in the 1990s). LEDs provide an energy-efficient, mercury- free solution helping to preserve the environment, while delivering more- flexible and longer-lasting lighting than traditional
lighting technologies."
Source: http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/4/7/9
- Living Homes with WIRED Magazine
- Architect: Ray Kappe
- Cost: $4 million modernist home in Los Angeles
- Size: 4,000 sq ft
- Features: LEED® Gold rating, passive heating and cooling, solar power, automated theatre, temperature, and lighting...
- Open later this year for public tours
- For the family that wants all the toys but wants to be as green as they can about it (perfect for my friend DW... if they could just make one half the size at an affordable price!)
Source: http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/06/prefab-friday-wired-living-home/#more-4903
"Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
Live Earth concerts will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at www.LiveEarth.MSN.com."
Showing on Bravo starting at 9am
