Image: Screenshot via DOE Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced the completion of a new 25,000-square-foot cool roof on the Department of Energy’s headquarters west building in Washington, DC. The design added no extra cost to the roof replacement project, and is projected to save taxpayers an annual $2,000 in energy costs. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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DOE Installs Cool Roof, Saves Taxpayers $2,000 in Energy Costs
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Images credit Iwan Baan I have previously complained that green roofs have become
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How To Put A Building In Public Space: Put A Green Roof On It
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Images credit BIG Green roofs continue to change architecture , as architects blend buildings into the landscape and use the roofs as architectural elements, often to hide the building from view. The Vilhelmsro school in Denmark “focuses on nature and sustainability” so Bjarke Ingels of BIG designed it out of sloping landscaped bands that are integrated into the hillside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Roofs Are Changing Architecture: BIG’s New School In Denmark
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Images via Designboom Perhaps we have to rethink the term “green roof”, because in many climates it might be mostly other colours, like this one in Greece by Deca Architecture and shown on Designboom. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Almost Underground House Blends In With Landscape
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Brothers Rinchen Samdrup, Jigme Namgyal, and Karma Samdrup (clockwise from top left) are now all in jail. Photos via the International Campaign for Tibet Picking up trash and planting trees sounds about as uncontroversial as activism can get, but an internationally recognized Tibetan environmentalist who had been organizing local villagers to do just tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tibetan Environmentalist Jailed for Five Years
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Image via Intel Video Water Wars uses a gaming platform to conduct a study on how people respond to water shortages. Intel Labs developers have ventured into combining 3D gaming with scientific research. In Water Wars, they’ve modeled an area of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and have created a role playing game that allows residents of that area to participate in different water scenarios. As the game creates new situations and water problems, the residents respond. Those responses tell us a little bit about what we can expect to see socially as the water crisis in the US and worldwide grows. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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WOW Gets Real – 3D Role Playing Game Models Water Crisis (Video)
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Gregg Fleishman humanizes prefab homes with visibly joined rhombicubes. Photos by RCruger At last weekend’s Dwell on Design 2010 , the conference showcased design-forward products and projects from prefab homes to green roofs, delivering three days of practical eco-ideas and dream green homes. Speakers included Ed Begley Jr. pushing the SRO audi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We keep saying that green roofs are changing architecture and planning , and here is another example, where the green roof turns into green walls and comes down to grade. Actually not to grade, but to some form of podium. Dezeen shows us La Maison-vague by Patrick Nadeau, is being built in Reimes, France, as part of an affordable housing project…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Roofs And Walls Cover House In France
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All photos by Lloyd Alter When Viljo Revell designed Toronto City Hall back in the sixties, the podium roof was for grand entries; you could drive up the ramp and walk right into the Council Chambers. It never quite worked out that way and was pretty much ignored for years. Not any more; this weekend Mayor Miller cut the ribbon on a spectacular new green roof. The normally reserved Lisa Rochon rav… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Spectacular Green Roof Installed At Toronto City Hall
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