In his post New Vertical Garden Comes to Spain’s San Vicente , Alex wrote “Vertical gardens are here to stay.” Our editor in chief wondered if there was a contradiction here with our post yesterday Fix Our Horizontal Farms Before We Go Vertical , where I questioned the merits of vertical farming. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jargon Watch: Vertical Gardens vs Vertical Farms vs Living Walls vs Green Façades
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Photo via Wikipedia The coastal waters off southwest Africa is going through troubling times, becoming effectively a dead zone with fish populations collapsing, jellyfish populations booming, and oxygen levels dropping. But one tiny fish, the bearded goby, seems to be perfectly adapted to these otherwise dead-end conditions, and is helping hold together and entire ecosystem by acting as an integral link in the food chain. As anchovies and sardine populations are wiped o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mud-Eating Miracle Fish Holds Together Ecosystem in Southwest Africa
Photo via the US Coast Guard It’s a question that’s been raised repeatedly over the course of the 3-month ordeal in the Gulf of Mexico — what do we call it? Though most publications and journalists (this one included) have leaned towards variations on ” the BP spill ” or ” the Gulf spill ” many have been dissatisfied with this terminology from the start. This isn’t merely a “spill” after all, it’s the biggest environmental disaster in US history, with oil continuously pumped into the Gulf for months… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Should We Rename the BP Gulf Oil Spill?
Images: Green Building Advisor Born in Boston and living in Nashville, I’m continually struck by the fact that Southerners expect air conditioning to be everywhere and running at all times. Enduring the summer swelter just isn’t the way it’s done down here. New Yorkers and Bostonians, on the other hand, seem almost competitive over who can endure more heat. Corey Saft, an architecture professor at the University of Louisiana, has built himself a home that will keep him cool, eve… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The South Gets its First Certified Passive House (Beats California to the Punch)
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All Images by B. Alter: The Living Office Research has shown that a healthy office space with plants and open windows is more conducive to productivity. Somehow we didn’t need scientists to tell us that there is a link between flowers, plants and workplace satisfaction. At the Chelsea Flower Show , the Living Office is a conceptual response to the issue. Designed by Vitra, in association with Indoor Garden Design , an o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Healthier Office Spaces Benefit Everyone
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Dow Corning Alex Wilson raises an important issue in Buildinggreen : It is not only important to insulate really well, but to also think about what insulation you are using. He makes the point that many insulations use potent greenhouse gases as blowing agents. He writes: We rarely pay attention to the fact that insulation materials themselves contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. This happens in two ways: through the embodied energy of the insulation (the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions that … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why The Choice of Insulation Matters
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Team Finland hails from Aalto University, and Alvar Aalto would be proud of this of this stunning little pile of lumber. It’s passively heated and designed for the cold and dark Finnish climate, with solar hot water collectors and photovoltaics on the roof. Given the importance of wood in Finnish design and architecture, they are highlighting it:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gorgeous Woodsy Finnish Entry in Solar Decathlon Wins First Prize For Architecture
Last year, Enviu , known for the sustainable dance floor and club , launched the Open Source House project , a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of their first competition, in which 3100 architects participated, was to design an affordable, flexible and sustainable house for people living in poor housing conditions in Ghana.
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Emerging Ghana wins Open Source House competition: Local, Modular & Efficient (Video)
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TreeHugger has waxed ecstatic over the benefits of prefabricated housing as a way of delivering better quality with less waste and energy, and we hoped at a lower price, yet somehow the industry never delivered what it promised. There were a couple of problems that were never resolved:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hybridcore Homes May Be the Best of Both Worlds Between Prefab and Site Built
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Terrific illustration from the National Post We do go on about how The Greenest Brick is the One Already in the Wall , how old buildings have embodied energy, how renovation creates more jobs than new construction, and how
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The Greenest Brick: City Votes to Demolish Entire Street of 41 Historic Buildings
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