NYC passes energy-efficiency bills for buildings

New York City passed a package of legislation Wednesday intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, which are the city's largest source of heat-trapping gases.

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A new study found that tenants in green buildings experience increased productivity and fewer sick days. The research also found that that green buildings have lower vacancy rates and higher rents than non-green counterparts.

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The council's own research suggests that a quarter of the new buildings that have been certified do not save as much energy as their designs predicted and that most do not track energy consumption once in use.

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In the interview Avrim talks about his personal experience, the benefits of green building, the costs, the importance of the LEED certification and how a home-building process transformed into a personal quest to share this experience and information with others.

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This book is following the journey Avrim and Vicki Topel had while building a new green sustainable home from scratch, one that will be eventually awarded the USGBC's LEED Silver Certification in October 2008.

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"In the long run, this agreement has the potential to impact thousands of buildings, including their own offices," an EPA spokesman tells GlobeSt.com.

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In these challenging times, building energy efficient homes will not only have a healthy effect on your bottom line over the long term, it will also have a significant impact on environmental protection and resources conservation.

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What aims to be the greenest building in Europe has just been un-earthed and is expected to be complete at the end of next year. And using the snafus of the greenest building of 20 years ago, they may well have all the bases covered regarding efficiency and environmentalism.

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This article and the recent story I saw about spiral farming towers makes me realize that space really is the new frontier.

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The American Institute of Architects selected 10 projects in 2008 as outstanding examples of sustainable design. Click on a project, shown in alphabetical order, for what drew the judges to each.

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The Washington Post featured a local high school's green renovation in Titans of Ecology, which began:

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Promoting the green design, construction, renovation and operation of buildings could cut North American greenhouse gas emissions that are fuelling climate change more deeply, quickly and cheaply than any other available measure, according to a new report issued by the trinationa …

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Buildings use a lot of energy, so it's no surprise they're responsible for 30–40 percent of CO2 emissions. The challenge involves two tasks—creating new buildings that are carbon neutral, and retrofitting all existing buildings to eliminate their carbon footprint.

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Sarah Fister Gale writes on GreenerBuildings.com about how prefabricated homes -- once the province of trailer parks and wide-load big-rigs on the highway -- are taking green houses to the masses.

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What's the best way for companies to buy and sell carbon credits?

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Sarah Shapiro discusses the news the some big box chains will only be building green from now on -- green sprawl is still sprawl.

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While investors were tough on Yahoo's stock on April 18 the Internet giant announced it will go easy on the planet by going carbon neutral The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based online search engine will offset greenhouse gas emissions resulting from its energy use by investing in environme …

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