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San Francisco will host Greenbuild 2012

The U.S. Green Building Council's annual conference and expo will be held in San Francisco, California.




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Green building grant program accepting applications

Application deadline for the 2012 Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program is Aug. 10, 2012.



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Building good: Bryan Cranston unveils passive house project in Ventura

Bryan Cranston — the actor behind "Breaking Bad," television's favorite chemistry teacher-turned-meth manufacturer — appears at Dwell on Design to discuss



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World Green Building Week 2012

'Green Buildings for Great Communities' is the theme for World Green Building Week 2012.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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LEED for Homes Awards recipients revealed ahead of Greenbuild 2012

With the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference and Expo about to kick off in San Francisco, the organization announces the recipient



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Father of LEED not a fan of 'green' buildings

Speaking at a sustainability and design conference in Atlanta, LEED pioneer Rob Watson explains that 'there are good buildings, and there are bad buildings.'




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Greenbuild 2009 is carbon-neutral

Donations from Milliken & Company and WindCurrent will allow Greenbuild 2009 to be a carbon-neutral conference.




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'Open Building' lets our homes adapt to change

Why not design our homes so that we can get at the things that need to be changed? That's the idea behind "Open Building".



  • Remodeling & Design

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Bullitt Center: World's greenest commercial building?

A tour of the Bullitt Center in Seattle confirms that it's as green as it can be.




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Help teen carpenters build a tiny house eco-village for Seattle's homeless

The after-school carpentry wizards at Sawhorse Revolution have big, community-bettering plans for micro-housing.



  • Remodeling & Design

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World's tallest wood building proposed for Paris

Michael Green, champion of lanky, carbon-neutral buildings, sets his sights on the City of Light.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Swedish students build law-skirting tiny house

Friggatto cleverly evades the exhausting, expensive process of securing a housing permit in Sweden.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Communal living slashes energy use at super-efficient Portland building

University of Cincinnati students score big in the 2015 perFORM Building Design Competition.



  • Remodeling & Design

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5 solar-powered buildings that will forever change architecture

From Apple's Spaceship HQ to GE's Boston campus, these solar-integrated designs are raising the bar.




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This stunning Manhattan office building is also unfailingly polite

Situated next to the High Line, Solar Carve Tower is specifically designed not to bogart air and natural light from its neighbors.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Baxter Brewing: The story of how to build and grow a truly sustainable craft brewery

Watch how this small, but fast-growing, Maine brewery is rolling sustainability into their operational DNA.




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Carpet for LEED buildings

A major source of indoor air pollution may be at your feet. That’s why carpet for LEED buildings is an issue not to be overlooked.




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New York buildings to go dark during bird migration season

Deadlier than Glenn Close with a kitchen knife, light's 'fatal attraction' kills millions of birds each year.




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SFI: Greenwashing at Greenbuild?

On the expo floor at Greenbuild 2009, Forest Ethics called out the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for questionable practices.




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Mukesh Ambani builds an aggressively opulent home

Antilia, the world's first billion dollar home, is completed in Mumbai. While initially marketed as being 'green', the home's size -- 398,000 square feet -- ren



  • Remodeling & Design

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British prisoners put to work building prefab homes

Why have inmates manufacture license plates when they can help put an end to a housing crisis?



  • Remodeling & Design

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Free-range parenting: Confidence builder or bad idea?

Free-range parents argue that allowing kids to make their own choices helps build self-confidence and happiness.




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Girl helps rebuild family's home with lemonade stand

10-year-old Alyssa De La Sala set up a drink stand, and the response was overwhelming.




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9-year-old builds mobile shelters for the homeless

Hailey Fort also grows food and is fundraising to buy coats and other supplies to help those in need.




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Girl wins prestigious fellowship to build robots, all to make the streets of Paris 'happy again'

Her application inspires Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship selection officials to look beyond age and take a chance on a kid with passion.




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Turret spiders build tiny towers for hunting unsuspecting prey

Turret spiders, the minuscule relatives of tarantulas, pack a powerful punch for any insect venturing close to the castle walls.




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Why building walls to save glaciers isn't such a crazy idea

A study from the European Geosciences Union suggests that undersea barriers could limit sea level rise related to melting glaciers.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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These students came up with an ingenious way to keep buildings cool

A newly developed insulation from students at California State University could dramatically reduce the cost of air conditioning.



  • Research & Innovations

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How to build muscle without weights

Have too little time to hit the gym — or too few bucks to join one? Here, then, is some guidance on how to build muscle without the gym.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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How to build an indoor succulent garden

Tray gardens are an easy and attractive way to bring succulents indoors. Here's a guide for making your own succulent tray garden.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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How to build a customized charcuterie board

It's more than just cured meat.




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Code-breaker: Phonehenge West builder found guilty

Alan Kimble Fahey, the hirsute ex-phone service technician behind a folksy, sprawling rural California compound known as Phonehenge West, is found guilty of vio



  • Remodeling & Design

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Salvage-happy builder jailed after failing to pay for demolition of own work

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Comet Lovejoy is spewing life's building blocks

Ingredients for Life Were Always Present on Earth, Comet Suggests




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Could we build an actual lightsaber?

Plasma presents a possible source for the blade, but lots of practical concerns remain.



  • Research & Innovations

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Hype builds around mysterious Bloom Box

Hype builds around Bloom Energy's flagship solid oxide fuel cell -- a cleaner, greener 'power plant in a box.'



  • Research & Innovations

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In the Green Room: Building a sustainable community

Chuck visits a unique community with an organic farm, three restaurants, thousands of acres of green space and EarthCraft homes.



  • Remodeling & Design

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No green building codes for Wyoming

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal feels that his state doesn’t need green building codes.




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What to know before you build a fence

Building a fence involves more than measuring materials and digging. It's a lot of research and communication.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Why new buildings in NYC are about to become much safer for birds

New York City passes bird-friendly building legislation to reduce collision risks for birds.




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Should residents of Hurricane Highway islands keep rebuilding?

Hurricanes keep coming through, destroying homes and beaches, yet tenacious residents keep on rebuilding. While this endless process of destruction and construc



  • Climate & Weather

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NYC to clear snow-covered roads with salt stored in salt-shaped building

The lauded structure is bustling with activity as a whopper of a winter storm approaches.



  • Climate & Weather

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Indoor Gardening Project for Kids: How to Build a Terrarium

This fun indoor craft project allows kids to customize their very own miniature garden, plant succulents in a container, and watch them grow.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Using brain meld, scientist remotely controls colleague in another building

A scientist successfully used his mind to control the hand of a researcher playing a video game in another building.



  • Research & Innovations

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Mystery about life's building blocks solved by quantum study

Quantum theory offers an answer to one of the oldest and most fundamental questions in biochemistry.



  • Research & Innovations

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What to do with that old office building? Recycle it.

What to do with that old office building? Recycle it.



  • Climate & Weather

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Greenbuild 2009 wrap up

The U.S. Green Building Council released the final statistics for Greenbuild 2009, which was held in Phoenix, Arizona.




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NASA wants to build world's most efficient plane

NASA’s projects are radically redesigning passenger aircraft to reduce fuel use and pollution.




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Rwanda builds utility-scale solar farm in 1 year

Renewables aren't just clean; they can be incredibly fast to deploy, too.




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