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Rumble In The Lumberyard: FSC Wins This Round

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Rumble In The Lumberyard: FSC Wins This Round

For the last four years, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has been fighting off the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and other certification programs in their attempts to have their programs recognized by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and get that single LEED point for sustainably harvested lumber. The proposed changes that would have opened up the certification were put to a vote and the results are in: The status quo remains.

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Jargon Watch: Acronyms Every Green Urbanist Should Know

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Jargon Watch: Acronyms Every Green Urbanist Should Know

Image Credit Judit Klein Everybody knows NIMBY and even BANANA, but there are a lot more abbreviations for those people and organizations that want to obstruct or delay projects, be it a wind turbine, bike lane, or urban intensification. Yuri Artibise rounds up 15 , including some gems: CAVE [people]: Citizens Against Virtually Everything DBTD : Death By a Thousand Days–another common tactic used by planners to “fix” a project they don’t like.

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Three Green Building Lawyer Bloggers Predict The Next Big Thing

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Three Green Building Lawyer Bloggers Predict The Next Big Thing

Stephen Del Percio, Lloyd Alter, Shari Shapiro, Chris Cheatham I follow the three leading bloggers on green building law closely; they make complicated and important issues affecting green building comprehensible. When I saw that they were all on a panel together at Greenbuild, I had to attend and meet them in person, and hear their responses to the question “What’s the Next Big Challenge in Green Building Law?” Although all three are great at making complex issues understandable to non-legal types, I still could not understand my notes well enough to do a post, so I asked them all to look into their crystal ball and send me their… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?

Images Credit John Picken Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune , wonders if a green parking garage is really an oxymoron, like “kosher ham, a peacekeeping missile, or the World Series-winning Cubs.” He looks at the HOK designed Greenway Garage in Chicago and doesn’t think much of the idea, suggesting that it removes the guil… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Super SIPS Get Over R-50; That’s A Lot of Insulation!

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Super SIPS Get Over R-50; That’s A Lot of Insulation!

That is one big stack of SIPS, or Structural Insulated Panels. I have never seen them so thick as that one on the bottom, a full 12 inches and rated at R-52. These are from PorterSIPs, and are sandwiches of OSB (oriented strand board) and EPS (Expanded Polystyrene). Expanded polystyrene is not without problems. Tom Lent of the Healthy Building Network notes in

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Astounding Arches In Pavilion of 33,000 Beer Crates (Photos)

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Astounding Arches In Pavilion of 33,000 Beer Crates (Photos)

Images: SHSH With recycled, modular materials like these attention-grabbing, widely-available yellow beer crates becoming a popular building component, it was only a matter of time before the ante was upped. If you’ve already seen this pretty cool freeform pavilion made from 2,000 beer crates, then check out this mind-boggling structure made from 33,000 crates and complete with columns and high-flying arches:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prince Charles is Partying and TreeHugger was There

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All Images by B. Alter: the Royal Vegetable Garden Prince Charles is having a great big green party and TreeHugger was there; along with a few thousand others, to be honest. HRH was holding it in the garden of his house, Clarence House and two neighbouring magnificent historic houses. It was a celebration and appreciation of all things green, done on a royal scale. A Garden Party To Make A Difference is part of the Prince’s START initiative to help people across the UK lead more sustainable lives. For 12 days, and the price of a ticket, the hoi polloi can check out the booths and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bamboo Pavilion: Low-Cost Communal Living

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images: Esan Rahmani and Mukul Damle Forget yesterday’s commune — ‘communal living’ nowadays can refer to any number of situations — from pricier market housing to low-income developments , or to temporary applications like refugee shelters . Falling somewhere in between is this Bamboo Pavilion — a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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80% of UK Heat Pumps Performing Badly

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: EcoHouseAgent Back in 2008 Lloyd stirred up controversy with his post blowing hot and cold on ground source heat pumps , and his stance was later validated when Green Building Adviser concluded that groundsource heat pumps were not as efficient as claimed , and way too expensive to be a sensible response to climate change. Now a study over in the UK see… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Better Than Bamboo: Flooring Is Made From Furniture Scraps

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Bamboo is round and hollow while floors are flat and solid, so to make bamboo floors they cut the stuff up into strips and compress it with resin into solid chunks, that can be sliced into flooring. They make a lot of it in China; they also make a lot of regular furniture and produce a lot of waste. Somebody had the idea of taking that scrap and compressing it into chunks and voila: EcoTimber Strand Poplar Flooring was born. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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