Fantastic article which shows (and images!) which shows how various greening measures can be added to buildings. My particular favorite is the last image, showing how all the technologies discussed, and a few others everyone is familiar with, can be applied.
Speaking of retrofit, anyone know where to get updates of Dockside Green building in Vancouver? I think they still have 6 years until it's done.
Once upon a time I heard that the province of Prince Edward Island had no building codes. I couldn't believe it, but never verified Came across this article from last fall, it looks like PEI hasn't adopted province wide codes, which mean in some places the codes could be very lax. Maybe non-existent? This still isn't confirmation, I'll keep diggin' because I like to dig.
Oh, and Pittsburgh is greening their code as well.
Can artists take techniques from sustainable food production and apply that to art production?”
And the winner of today's "most misleading green story headline designed to get press" award goes to the University of California, Irvine for releasing this:
"Urban 'green' spaces may contribute to global warming, UCI study finds". Truly stunned, it was the first thing I read.
The second line reads "Turfgrass management creates more greenhouse gas than plants remove from atmosphere". Ya don't say? Lawns, not such a good thing? Management of lawns even worse? However this part is vital:
"... greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer production, mowing, leaf blowing and other lawn management practices are four times greater than the amount of carbon stored by ornamental grass in parks, a UC Irvine study shows. These emissions include nitrous oxide released from soil after fertilization. Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas that's 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, the Earth's most problematic climate warmer."
The rest of it, oy.
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