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Agoura Hills, California, is an affluent bedroom community 30 miles northeast of central Los Angeles, characterized by green, lush valleys and broad canyons. But its building stock is less picturesque: along U.S. Route 101, which runs through the small city of about 20,000, drivers ar...
The U.S. government started building green long before the private sector caught on. Saving money by saving energy was always important, but federal agencies took a much broader approach as far back as the mid-1990s: the Navy's first green-building policy also emphasized low-impact ma...
The U.S. government started building green long before the private sector caught on. Saving money by saving energy was always important, but federal agencies took a much broader approach as far back as the mid-1990s: the Navy's first green-building policy also emphasized low-impact ma...
Kate Torgersen pops a bite-size, protein-packed Clif Shot Rok into her mouth and takes a sip from her pink Nalgene water bottle. "Sorry, I just went on a four-mile run," Torgersen, assistant communications manager at Clif Bar & Company, explains as she prepares to lead a tour of her c...
May 14--Citizen scientists, environmentalists and anyone who lives near a power plant -- your services are requested. Climate change scientist Kevin Robert Gurney needs your help in a grand undertaking: the mapping of all the power plants in the world. It's a big job, and he and the p...
Still under way are negotiations with the local utility and the state Department of Health to designate the building as its own water district. If granted this status, the Bullitt will use rainwater collected from the roof and stored in a 56,000-gallon basement cistern to supply showe...
Photo © Jill Richards Yudelson at the ASU Biodesign Institute in Tempe, AZ. ----- Advertising ----- Related links Arizona State University Biodesign Institute Sara Hart: You and Ulf Meyer wrote The World’s Greenest Buildings: Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design (Routledge...
