I know its late on Friday afternoon. The SEC men’s basketball tourney is a few blocks away. No one wants to talk about green building right now. Most people around here only want to talk about BLUE!
But if I wait unil Monday, then I may forget to share this news and it might be too late!
You don’t have to click too many times through your channels on your television set without finding a reality television show. There is one for finding the right man, losing weight to the extreme, rebuilding a destitute home in five days, and even eating spiders and beetles.
Earlier this week on the
For the next couple of weeks, the only thing you will see on our living room television is the Winter Olympics. Luge…daring!. Freestyle moguls…awesome! Snowboard cross…cool! Figure skating…good time to surf the Internet!
Last night, while watching figure skating surfing the Internet, I stumbled upon this article about the Olympic and Paralympic Village in Vancouver having received the highest certification
CalGreen “California green building code” “Sierra Club” “Natural Resources Defense Council” USGBC “Elaine Hsieh”
Continue Reading CalGreen, Take Me Away! (California Adopts Greenest Building Code to Date)
A week does not go by without a friend, colleague, or new acquaintance asking me, "How do you do it all?" The short answer: "It’s tough … very tough … but I have some help. For home and family issues, I have my lovely wife. For unloading the dishwasher, I have my son. For getting out
When Nashville Mayor Karl Dean created the Green Ribbon Committee on Environmental Sustainability, he had lofty goals of making Nashville the greenest city in the Southeast. Indeed, Tennessee’s Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey shared a similar commitment to be a green "LEEDer" in the South.
Fast forward to January 2010 … Where are we on
This guest post was written by Kevin Kaiser of SuretyBonds.com, specializing in teaching consumers about surety bonds through the Surety Bond Education Center. I do not represent Kevin or his company, nor do I sponsor any of their products. Kevin has some great things to say about the surety’s perspective in green construction, which is particularly timely given the
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued a final rule in an effort to reduce water pollution on construction sites. The rule, which is set to take effect in February 2010 over a four-year period, is targeted to improve the quality of water nationwide. According to a press release by the EPA, the impact is significant:
Construction activities like clearing, excavating and
As much as possible, I like to highlight various forms of construction contract documents. In most of my green building presentations over the past few months, I have talked about the "soon to be released" Green Building Addendum from ConsensusDOCS. Well, that day has finally come!
Based upon my preliminary review of the 310
I am certainly not the first … and certainly won’t be the last … person to write about Robert Watson’s webinar presentation yesterday afternoon entitled, Building a Sustainable Future: Progress & Trends Toward Improving the Environmental Footprint of Commercial Buildings.
Watson, Executive Editor for GreenerBuildings.com, is most commonly referred to as the father of