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Gimme Shelter: A Q & A with Leslie Hoffman
Mother Nature
Network Blog,
by Matt Hickman
New York, NY. "Earth Pledge's Leslie Hoffman discusses
how community plays a key role in her remarkable green home
building project, Gimme Shelter....Hoffman also wanted the home
to be different beyond just being a beautiful, sustainable
structure with solar photovoltaics, a rainwater catchment
system, green roof, and so on..." [3.15.10]
Living Walls: The Indoor Garden Trend
SanDiego.com,
by Dave Good
San Diego, CA. "Live plants can cover an apartment wall,
or a whole skyscraper facade...Time called the 'living
wall' one of the 50 best inventions of 2009. Developed
by a French botanist named Patrick Blanc, living walls
come in all shapes and sizes. They can cover entire facades of
skyscrapers with greenery or they can grace interior apartment
walls..." [3.12.10]
Pay now — and pay later
Baltimore Sun,
by Karen
Hosler
Baltimore, MA. "...We're not getting any free ride by
putting off the cost of installing green roofs,
rain barrels, retention ponds and other water containment and
cleansing techniques. Mother Nature says it's not a question of
pay me now or pay me later, but one of pay me now and pay me
later. However, the interest rate on inaction is going to rise
considerably..." [3.12.10]
Cultivating crops on city rooftops
Environmental
Expert Press Release
London, UK.
"To meet the
challenges of producing food in a more environmentally-friendly
way, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has called on cities
to develop 'living walls' of edible plants.
Through vertical farming, agriculture could become a feature of
urban life, lowering energy consumption, carbon emissions and
resource use in food production..." [3.11.10]
Brown roof project by LDA Design wins biodiversity award
Horticulture
Week, by
Staff
London UK. "LDA Design's brown roof project at Royal
Arsenal Riverside in Woolwich, south London, has won a
biodiversity award...Different from a green roof
in that its aim is to increase biodiversity and habitat space in
urban areas, the LDA Design project was a joint scheme with
ecologists Baker Shepherd Gillespie (BSG)..." [3.11.10]
Affordable, Curvy,
and Super Green
Jetson Green Blog,
by Preston Koerner
London, UK. "...Designed by Acanthus LW Architects for
Paradigm Housing, these homes were built with recycled steel and
minimal construction waste...Green features include a
sedum-covered green roof, photovoltaics, solar
thermal, rainwater capture for toilet usage, high insulation,
abundant natural light, passive ventilation, biomass boiler for
heating and hot water, and heat recovery systems..." [3.10.10]
In Oakland, Solar and Affordable Housing
Part of the Same Deal
Sunpluggers.com,
by Erin Milnes
Oakland, CA. "...Designed by architect David Baker +
Partners and built by J. H. Fitzmaurice, Ironhorse incorporates
many sustainable building measures, among them solar-heated
water, photovoltaic arrays to supply electricity for common
areas, certified 'green' carpets and vegetated 'green
roofs,' which last longer than conventional roofing and
provide insulation from both heat and sound..." [3.10.10]
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