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Zero Waste in an Era of Net Zero Everything

Green Building Law Update

By analogy, nearly all businesses choose to include a warning label that nearly everything from a padlock, to jewelry, to a dish to a flashlight may cause cancer, to comply with California law that defines “no significant risk” (. No company should claim to be Zero Waste. There is a lot of waste out there. yes, this blog will continue).

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: The Earthbag.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity

Business Facilities

Green Building Council is expanding its LEED for Cities and Communities program with a new $500,000 grant from Bank of America. Read: 20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity at BusinessFacilities.com.

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California Photovoltaic Test Lab Dives Into Technologies With Real.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. Banking & Credit Crisis. ENR California. California Photovoltaic Test Lab Dives Into Technologies With Real World Experiments. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health.

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Officials Outline 'Preferred' Path Forward on California's Bay Delta.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. ENR California. Officials Outline Preferred Path Forward on Californias Bay Delta. “The biggest hurdle right now is funding,” says Cindy Paulson, executive director of California Urban Water Agencies and a senior vice president of Walnut Creek, Calif.

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DOT Lets States Shift $473M Unspent on Earmarks to Other Projects.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. Banking & Credit Crisis. ENR California. million, followed by California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health. Project Delivery.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

Building Information Management

Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Ackerstein Sustainability LLC.