Green building materials
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This is a place to collect information about green materials for construction. Anything goes that has low emissions, a small ecological footprint, is based on biomaterials, or is worth mentioning in the same sentence as sustainability.
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Greening of SouthieA new film on green building - The Greening of Southie - about the Macallen Building in South Boston has been released and is showing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on July 20th (tickets available online). It promises a compelling story about the process of green building, the union teams who ...
Georges Dyer
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4 months ago
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Help Michigan: Buy What They are Going to Make | The World of Startups Outside Silicon Valley | Fast CompanyIt's everyone's patriotic duty to help Michigan. We are, indeed, at war, but it's not with terrorists, it's with the worst elements of ourselves. I never thought I'd be saying this, but it has been a powerful day for me, a person who abandoned Amercian cars when her new college graduation gift, ...
Francine Hardaway
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5 months ago
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ABC7.com Green Content - The UL symbol: now on green productsFrom Green Right Now Reports Underwriters Laboratories, whose UL symbol has long been a stamp of approval indicating product safety, has validated its first green product. Serious Materials’ new drywall product EcoRock is the first product to be validated by UL Environment since it launched ...
Francine Hardaway
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5 months ago
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The Green Revolution: Saving the world will not be cheap | ProsperityAgenda.USMaking buildings more energy-efficient is an example. Companies such as Ameresco offer to do this in return for a share of the savings. Firms such as Serious Materials of California provide energy-saving windows and environmentally friendly plasterboard. Wal-Mart plans to reduce its packaging, ...
Francine Hardaway
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Welcome to Greenbuilding.com | Green BuildingGreen Energy Retrofit By David Johnston The case for green retrofits in 2009- A call to action For almost 30 years homeowners have been remodeling their homes to improve the aesthetics, increase space, make the home more kid-friendly or to just raise their… Read more... Green ...
Francine Hardaway
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8 months ago
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Big Green: FSC Certified MDFSelection of links for brands & manufacturersdekaysion added 16 months ago
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Masonite: Safe 'N Sound® and Safe 'N Sound® Emerald™ SeriesDoors based on wheat straw boards made with little or no formaldehyde resindekaysion added 16 months ago
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