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Sustainability. Side B
“Hug The Monster’: Why So Many Climate Scientists Have Stopped Downplaying the Climate Threat” By Joe Romm. May 7, 2012 Climate scientists have been consistently downplaying and underestimating the risks for three main reasons. First, their models tended to ignore the myriad amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks that we now know are kicking in (such as [...]
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Linmologen, Edificios de Madera
Swedish Environmental Technology Council Buildings with low energy consumption The building is a part of the project Valle Broar, which aims to support wood-building technology and create the modern wooden city in Växjö. Limnologen is the first high building in Sweden whose construction is based on wood and has been conducted and evaluated in close [...]
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Mi Casita de Madera
Wood 2.0: mass timber and the tall buildings of tomorrow An architect makes the case for the old being new again. by James Holloway Old wood… Building tall buildings out of wood isn’t a new idea, and even without modern wood composites, wooden buildings have stood the test of time, even in areas of seismic activity. [...]
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Architecture 2030
Architecture 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to a central part of the solution to the global-warming crisis. Our goal is to achieve a dramatic reduction in the GHG emissions of buildings by changing the way they are designed and [...]
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WHITE PAPER ON SUSTAINABILITY Building Design & Construction. 11 • 03. www.bdcmag.com What is green building? The Office of the Federal Environmental Executive defines green building as “the practice of 1) increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy, water, and materials, and 2) reducing building impacts on human health and the [...]
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Calling All Guerrilla Designers
Calling All Guerrilla Designers: The Venice Architecture Biennale Wants You by Cord Jefferson @ GOOD DESIGN We’ve told you before about the many ways modern designers have begun to buck societal restrictions. There’s graffiti and street art, of course, but what about DIY bike lanes (pictured above) to make cities safer for cyclists? Or guerrilla furniture built for weary-footed commuters? [...]
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