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You may have already heard the buzz about Serious Materials through sources like Time, Fortune, or even the New York Times, but the company continues to live up to the hype surrounding their sustainable green building materials. For example, a piece of EcoRock is a drywall replacement that uses 80% less energy in its manufacturing process, uses 85% post-industrial [...]
Read more →An innovative new product to come from recycled glass wine bottles comes in the form of BottleStone‘s countertops. In fact, the process and product is so innovative that it took home this year’s Clean Tech Open award with a prize package worth over $100,000. It takes roughly six wine bottles to create a square foot [...]
Read more →The new Burchfield-Penney Art Center, pictured left, is holding its grand re-opening on November 22nd, and they have more than just some great new pieces of art to celebrate. The center, located in Buffalo, is the first art museum in New York state to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and [...]
Read more →A revolution in the fashion industry has arrived: the world’s first 100% carbon-neutral, 100% green, and 100% ethical factory. The building belongs to Marks and Spencer, and is located in Thurulie, Sri Lanka, and is the home of their new line of Per Una organic cotton lingerie. Features that make the building such an inspiration [...]
Read more →The new C.K. Choi building at the University of British Columbia stretches 30,000 square feet, has 5 separate international research centers, uses natural ventilation and daylight, and isn’t connected to any sewer system. Their toilets use no water at all, but instead rely on composting toilets and waterless urinals that collect the waste in the basement and ensure no [...]
Read more →If someone were to tell you their new house was made out of cob, you might not realize that it started out looking like this. But the old tradition of building a home from the ground up (literally), is starting a new environmental trend, and catching on in Ireland and South England. The cob home actually has [...]
Read more →Feel free to file this under the “Yeah, right” category of your brain, but this guy, Michel Krueger, is pretty certain that when we run out of space on land to build homes on, we’re going to want to build them on water – okay, not so hard-to-believe. The hard-to-believe part comes when he says his company, Studio Noach, wants [...]
Read more →Although the artificial islands in Dubai may be some of the most eye catching features of the city right now, take a look at this new concept for a carbon-neutral super structure that would have the capacity to house up to 1 million people. Created by the environmental design firm Timelinks, the pyramidal structure is going to stretch 2.3 kilometers, [...]
Read more →Out of all of the construction taking place in Lower Manhattan right now, one of the most interesting skyscrapers popping up is located at 50 West Street. The $600 million building is on track to achieve LEED Gold status by the time the construction is finished in 2011 because of its green roof, water saving fixtures, automatic [...]
Read more →Earlier this week we featured an LEED Platinum certified Data Center being built, but you can forget about that because today we have an entire community in Victoria, British Columbia that has been given LEED Platinum certification as well. The entire area, including a village, commons, and a wharf, has a focus on the natural surroundings, and [...]
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