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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
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Year after year, debris from construction and demolition piles up in the world's landfills. Yet most construction waste can be reused or recycled. Relocating buildings instead of building new ones, salvaging construction materials before demolition, and other practices can reduce waste and save big money at a construction or demolition site. [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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Ecobuild America
Date: Jun 20-23, 2005
Location: Orlando, Fla.
After five years of Ecobuild conferences in Tokyo, a new North American event has been established, covering the breadth of commercial, industrial, institutional and residential green building techniques, construction products, renewable energy resources, and sustainable growth design and planning processes. Educational sessions for design and construction professionals will feature the latest innovations in green building materials and energy and technology, with particular emphasis on sustainable growth, green building, and environmental design.
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Midwest Renewable Energy Association
Date: Jun 17-19, 2005
Location: Custer, WI
Trade show and over 100 workshops on solar and wind power, energy-efficient construction, alternative building materials, passive solar, water heating and pumping, electric vehicles, energy policy and advocacy, sustainable agriculture, energy conservation, and much more.
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School Planning & Management
Date: Jun 8-10, 2005
Location: Philadelphia, Pa.
The School Building Expo is a conference and exposition covering the latest trends in design, construction, and materials for kindergarten through 12th grade school facilities. Architects, engineers, contractors, and other facilities professionals will be able to enhance their knowledge by visiting the school-focused product exhibition and attending sessions and workshops covering student health and safety and school-related design and building performance trends. A session on current environmental building issues will be held, in addition to numerous environmentally focused sessions covering daylighting, green building rating systems, low-cost ideas for environmental success, indoor air quality, and the school as a community facility.
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Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Date: Jun 6-10, 2005
Location: Charlottesville, Va.
Looking for ways to make your green business a little greener? The Darden School's innovative executive education program, "Sustainability and Beyond: Business Leadership Through Innovation and Design," explores new strategies for implementing eco-effective design principles into your organization. Participants will:
- Gain insights into new ways to think about the design of facilitiies and products
- Enhance their understanding of the global forces behind the rise in comprehensive corporate accountability and their implications for corporate strategy within the organization
- Learn new performance metrics and become familiar with the reasonns behind the growth in socially responsible equity funds
- Be able to apply learnings and concepts to specific issues that exist within their own firms
Program Fee: $5,600
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United Nations Environment Programme
Date: Jun 1-5, 2005
Location: San Francisco, CA
Annual United Nations event that seeks to stimulate political and public awareness of environmental issues, focusing this year on the urban environment. Activities will include workshops, eco-tours, community-wide symposia, seminars, an environmental film festival, arts programming, and experiential educational activities.
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The first major academic renovation project to receive a Gold rating for sustainable construction in the state of Michigan. [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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This no-nonsense site is an online clearinghouse of sustainability facts and figures. It features sustainability indicators, including an indicator training manual and guide. Users can also access its databases and get answers to FAQs. In addition, the group offers consulting services, hosts workshops, and issues publications. [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory teamed up with Fetzer Vineyards to create this benchmarking and water/energy management tool, which compares a user's winery to a similar hypothetical winery (e.g., climate, production) using the best commercially available technologies. This interactive, Excel-based tool provides a performance benchmark score and allows users to model over 100 potential energy and water efficiency enhancements to estimate energy and water savings and project paybacks. The BEST tool and workbook are available free of charge to all California wineries through a PIER grant from the California Energy Commission. [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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This site provides program implementers and researchers with a wealth of information on opportunities to improve the energy efficiency, comfort, and productivity of the existing commercial building stock. Find an overview of commercial building performance, complete with glossary of terms, as well as technical papers and guidlines, financial tools and sample contracts, and a calendar of upcoming events. [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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This April 2005 report reviews experience to date with comprehensive retrofit programs including equipment incentive, standard offer, and building performance programs operating at the national, regional, and state level. Information from program literature, evaluation reports, and interviews with program managers is used to summarize the programs, review impacts, explore what's working and what challenges have been encountered, and offer recommendations to improve the use and effectiveness of these programs. [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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There are numerous success stories of public actions that appear to have attracted private investment in brownfield properties. However, we have little systematic evidence of what really works best to stimulate investment. By Kris Wernstedt and Peter B. Meyer [Source: GreenerBuildings.com]
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Chicago is latest to consider route cuts, but from Philadelphia to San Francisco, fares may rise. Fuel costs are part of the reason. [Source: Christian Science Monitor]
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The goals of the Merck Family Fund are to protect the natural environment and ensure a healthy planet for generations to come, and to strengthen the social fabric and the physical landscape of the urban community. Through the Protecting the Natural Environment program area, the Fund supports the protection of vital ecosystems in the eastern U.S., and on a national basis, supports the shift towards environmentally sustainable economic systems, incentives, and behaviors. Through the Strengthening the Urban Community program area, the Fund provides grants to grassroots programs in New York City; Providence, RI; and Boston, MA that work to create green and open space, and that support youth as agents of social change. Letters of inquiry can be submitted at any time. Invited proposals are due March 1 and August 1, annually.
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Why GE's new "ecomagination" initiative may provide a model for how a company can strike out as an environmental leader in today's cynical marketplace. By Joel Makower [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Thorough and easy to read, the guide offers suggestions for writing environmental specifications, strategies for buying less, and tips on tracking environmental purchases. Comes complete with guidelines for choosing greener products in more than 30 categories, including: paper, printing services, office equipment, cleaners, and office furniture. For each category, the guide addresses general product background, related environmental and health issues, applicable laws and guidelines, cost considerations, and product vendors. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Billed as "the Internet's landfill alternative," Throwplace.com is an online market where individuals, nonprofits, and businesses can exchange excess goods and surplus inventory free of charge. Items can be "thrown" into any of the site's four sections: U.S. Charity, International Charity, Business/Individual, and Up-For-Grabs. (Only charities and nonprofits registered with the site can "take" from the U.S. and International Charity sections.) Up-For-Grabs offers miscellaneous items and gadgets, as well as anything needing quick pick-up or disposal. The wide variety of "throws" and "takes" includes lighting and bathroom fixtures, craft paper, law books, appliances, computers, carpeting, monitors, peripherals, and telephones. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Large corporate paper and wood buyers are making progress but still have a long road toward incorporating sustainability into long-range purchasing strategies, according to a new survey out this week. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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An unprecedented grouping of pension funds, foundations, European investors and U.S. state treasurers have joined with the United Nations to back a new call for urgent action by the global investment community to tackle the threat of climate change. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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By reducing the costs associated with heating and cooling unoccupied rooms, Holiday Inn and Suites in Madison will save more than $17,000 a year in energy costs. The savings are a result of a guest room energy management system installed in Holiday Inn and Suites 157 guestrooms. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Alcoa's Brazilian affiliate, Alcoa Aluminio, has joined Tetra Pak, Klabin, and TSL Ambiental to inaugurate the world's first carton packaging recycling facility.
The plant uses a new plasma technology that enables the total separation of aluminum and plastic components from the cartons. Until now, recycling processes for carton packaging separated paper but kept plastic and aluminum together. The plasma process provides another option for recycling, allowing for the return of all three components of the package to the productive chain as raw material. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Coffee drinkers around the world could be helping to save what is left of the threatened wildlife of El Salvador. [Source: BBC News]
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With little fanfare, counties, states, and the federal government have collectively spent an estimated $14 billion or more - at least $1 billion a year since 1990 - to restore rivers and streams to their natural condition, not including dollars spent on Goliath restoration projects like the Everglades. Ironically, the move to clean up America's unheralded rivers comes at a time when the condition of the nation's waterways overall is starting to deteriorate. [Source: Christian Science Monitor]
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Research at Oxford shows how renewables can plug Britain's energy gap, says Oliver Tickell. [Source: The Guardian (UK)]
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When Yokahama, Japan recently doubled the number of garbage categories to 10, it handed residents a 27-page booklet on how to sort their trash. Highlights included detailed instructions on 518 items. [Source: New York Times -- need a login/pw?]
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Dozens of closed military bases are on EPA's Superfund list of worst toxic waste sites. [Source: AP via ABC News]
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Eco-minded institutional investors pledged this week to channel $1 billion into clean-technology investments and take other steps to help combat risks posed by climate change. The action plan emerged from a summit at U.N. headquarters in New York where leaders of the green-suit crowd -- everyone from pension-fund
managers and state treasurers to Al Gore and former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill -- met to talk about how environmentally concerned shareholders could prod U.S. corporations into facing up to the challenges of global warming. Emily Gertz sends a dispatch from the scene. [Source: Grist Magazine]
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The 30th-anniversary edition of Ernest Callenbach's cult-classic novel Ecotopia has hit the shelves. Readers flocking to the book for the first time seeking an inspiring vision of a sustainable society may be surprised to find a loopy melange of free love, Marxism, paganism, ritual warfare, legalized drugs, and therapy speak. Though often characterized as a political work, the inhabitants of Ecotopia are so numbingly alike that politics are superfluous, writes reviewer Pat Joseph. But despite its dubious aesthetic merits, it can't be dismissed as a relic. [Source: Grist Magazine]
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Via sustainablog:
From TriplePundit, news that MBA programs focusing on sustainable development are thriving while, overall, MBA programs are seeing a sharp drop in applicants. Kevin Hagen, principal of Shuksan Energy Consulting and a member of the graduating class, is not surprised, "Sustainability is the next big trend in business. Huge corporations are in the process of transitioning to more sustainable business..."  By noemail@noemail.org (Jeff McIntire-Strasburg). [ sustainablog]
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Grease those gears -- tomorrow, May 19 is National Bike to Work Day! The Bike to Work Day campaign aims to have more commuters try this environmentally friendly commuting option. [ENN Business Headlines]
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Stratus Vineyards, one of the Canada's newest wineries, announced today that it has been granted LEED Canada (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). [ENN Business Headlines]
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Anheuser-Busch, the larger beer brewer in the United States, has issued its 2004 Environment, Health, and Safety Report. [ENN Business Headlines]
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More than 60 hybrid, electric, and bio-fueled vehicles converged on two cities in New York in mid-May for the 17th annual Tour de Sol. Among the highlights of this year's event was a modified Honda Insight that achieved nearly 100 miles per gallon and a "plug-in" Toyota Prius that did even better. [EERE Network News]
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Wind Power--Cape Cod
Source: Coastal Management Journal
The Offshore Wind Power Debate: Views from Cape Cod (PDF; 187 KB)
"This article draws on semistructured interviews with residents of Cape Cod to analyze values, beliefs, and logic of supporters and opponents. For example, one value found to lead to opposition is that the ocean is a special place that should be kept natural and free of human intrusion. One line of argument found to lead to support is: The war in Iraq is problematic, this war is 'really' over petroleum, Cape Cod generates electricity from oil, therefore, the wind project would improve U.S. security. Based on analysis of the values and reasoning behind our interview data, we identify four issues that are relevant but not currently part of the debate." [ResourceShelf's DocuTicker]
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2005
Laura L. Barnes.
Last update:
10/25/2005; 12:10:14 PM.
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