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Green Lifestyle News tagged with green building

Cob Building - Want to Build A Cob House?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: cob building, green building, natural building, cob house, work exchange )

Nathan
- 533 days ago - dancingrabbit.org
Do you want to get some actual hands-on experience building a cob house? Would you like to experience community life in an off-the-grid ecovillage? If you answer yes to these questions, then you should be interested in this work exchange!
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San Francisco Moves to Greenest Building Codes in U.S.
Green Lifestyle  (tags: building codes, green building, San Francisco, eco-design )

Larry
- 617 days ago - sfgate.com
"George Bush is doing nothing to fight climate change on the national level, but with this groundbreaking ordinance, we're doing our part on the local level," said Nathan Ballard, a Newsom spokesman. "Many people don't realize that buildings have a big ca
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"Green Building Best Weapon Against Global Warming: Report
Green Lifestyle  (tags: commision for environment cooperation, green conference, green building, greenhouse gas emissions, north america, energy, nicoleterrycreates, cool stuff, ecofriendly, ecosystems, environment, global warming, green, nicole terry, health, humans )


- 622 days ago - thedailygreen.com
"A report issued by the tri-national Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and announced Thursday at a green conference in Vancouver, concluded that green building could slash greenhouse gas emissions in North America"
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Modern Homestead: A California Home Creates Self-Sufficient Green Dream
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green building, California, architecture, Sonoma County )

Larry
- 630 days ago - naturalhomemagazine.com
With its passive-solar design, locally quarried materials and elaborate landscaping, this California couple took the best of the old and new when designing their eco-friendly dream home in the Sonoma County countryside.
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Your Guide to New Green Home Labels
Green Lifestyle  (tags: real estate, housing, labels, certification, green building, environment )

Social
- 632 days ago - thedailygreen.com
It's clear that going green is becoming increasingly attractive to home buyers and sellers. But without having degrees in architecture, design and sustainability, how do consumers sort things out?
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Gorgeous New Green, Low-VOC, Healthful Paints
Green Lifestyle  (tags: paint, low voc, volatile organic compounds, green building, indoor air quality )

Social
- 637 days ago - thedailygreen.com
Check out the latest new "green" paints, which are priced very competitively with traditional brands, are now widely available, and boast extra-cool features like recycled packaging, food-grade ingredients and more.
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Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers
Green Lifestyle  (tags: real estate, green building, energy efficiency, housing market )

Social
- 637 days ago - thedailygreen.com
It's a tough housing market for sellers.But here's the good news: Real estate agents and homeowners alike are discovering that they can get a leg up on the competition by doing a little preemptive green remodeling.
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Can This Home Be Greened? / Greening a Mining-Era Mountain Home
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green remodeling, Sustainabililty, green building )

Larry
- 655 days ago - naturalhomemagazine.com
Tracy's question is: Can an old structure once associated with extractive mining practices now attain the energy-efficient, resource-conserving, healthful standards of green building?
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Cohousing - Both Green Building and Affordable Housing
Green Lifestyle  (tags: affordable housing, cohousing, energy efficiency, green building, Sustainabililty, greenliving, eco-friendly )

Nathan
- 658 days ago - communitybuzz.ic.org
The book, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, describes how Greenway Cohousing managed to merge green building with affordability.
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Green Building Brooklyn: 2 Golds and a Platinum
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green building, greenliving, eco-friendly, coolstuff, Sustainabililty, environment, environment, home, Brooklyn, NYC, LEED, USGBC )

Green
- 660 days ago - greenbrooklyn.com
Green building is great. Here are 3 real-world examples of residential buildings in Brooklyn going for gold or platinum certification under the LEED standard of green building set by the USGBC.
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Green Buildings Don't Have to Be New / Retrofitting Older Buildings Present Opportunity to Reduce Energy Consumption and Carbon
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green building, green retrofitting, Chicago, San Francisco, LEED )

Larry
- 669 days ago - nytimes.com
LEED for Existing Buildings, or LEED-EB, the three-year-old program provides a laundry list of steps that building owners and managers can take to operate and manage their properties more efficiently.
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Built for the Earth and the Pocketbook - Architect Designer Calls a Modular House Home
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green homes, green building )

Larry
- 669 days ago - nytimes.com
one Manhattan architect is combining his modular aspirations with alternative energy technologies to create a Hamptons house that he hopes will marry modernist design with reasonable cost.
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High Perceived Cost of Green Persists, Says Survey
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green, building, costs, green building, green construction )

Cris
- 682 days ago - buildinggreen.com
In spite of persistent claims to the contrary from green advocates, 86% of respondents believe that it costs more to build a green building--and not just by a little. Most of those said at least 6% more, and a large group said over 15% more!
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Top 10 New CFLs to Fit Almost Any Fixture and Application
Green Lifestyle  (tags: energy, cfls, green building, lighting, energy efficiency, compact fluorescents, light bulbs )

Social
- 684 days ago - thedailygreen.com
Now the energy-saving bulbs are dimmable, come for 3-way lamps, have regular shapes, and have a bunch of other new sizes and uses. No excuses left!
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A Water Boulder Grows for Spirit Pine / Living With Nature in a Hand Sculped House
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green building, Spirit Pine Sanctuary, Los Olivos, Cali Central Coast, cob structures )

Larry
- 689 days ago - hopedance.org
Mixing mud, sand, and straw, the family built Spirit Pine Sanctuary in a hollow below the ridge and have given workshops to help others learn how to build cob structures.
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