Design Your Green Home

If you could design the green home of your dreams, what would it look like? What would it be made of? How would it produce and consume energy?

“Green Roofs for Healthy Cities” : Cool New GreenRoofs.org Conference June 3-5, 2009

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The GreenRoofs.org “Green Roofs for Healthy Cities”  Conference is on the horizon in Atlanta this coming June 2009! It is just ideal for: those interested in creating Green Roofs. studying the future of Vertical Gardens/Green Walls. raising awareness for green roofs and living walls (vertical gardens). engineers, architects, landscape architects, landscape designers,  property managers, developers, roofing contractors, and students. anyone [...]

Earth Day Events: Vertical Farms and Green Roofs Now at Exit Art in NYC

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A project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) at Exit Art, “Vertical Gardens is an exhibition of architectural models, renderings, drawings, photographs and ephemera that depict or imagine a vertical farm, urban garden or green roof.” The exhibit features over 20 projects, both imaginary and real, by artists and architects envisioning solutions for building greener urban [...]

Free Green Building Webcasts Available During Earth Week

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BrightTALK is sponsoring an Earth Week webcast summit, featuring free presentations on water management, green building, green IT, and green marketing.

San Fran’s Orchard Hotel Nabs LEED-EB Certification

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If it works for one San Fran hotel then it must work for another. No, we’re not talking about more upscale mini bar items but Greening a hotel. In this case, the Orchard Garden Hotel’s (which garnered LEED-NC certification) sister property the Orchard Hotel just nabbed LEED-EB certification. The Orchard represents San Francisco’s only hotel [...]