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We first reported on plans for the infamous Alcatraz Island prison to receive solar panels in June 2010. The solar power system has become a reality ...more |
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The Leopold Center is a net zero energy green building, meeting all of its energy needs on site. Despite the contrasts of Wisconsin’s four-season ...more |
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Is yellow the new black as solar power replaces coal in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields? A non-profit group called The Jobs Project is ...more |
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November 4, 2009 Boone, NC -- The Renewable Energy Initiative of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC installed a 100KW wind turbine ...more |
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In 1970, the Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti, an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona, 70 miles north of metropolitan Phoenix. ...more |
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Guy Marsden and his wife live in coastal Woolwich, Maine, USA, where the winters are cold and snowy, but they stay warm and cozy thanks to the sun ...more |
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The Zero Energy Idea House at Bass Cove, in Washington State, will provide approximately 5 kW of electricity to the home from its rooftop ...more |
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The Bertschi School is a pre-kindergarten through 5th grade independent school located on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The school has grown steadily ...more |
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Not far from Washington, D.C., the Bethesda Zero Energy House produces more power than it uses with a rooftop 9.6 kilowatt photovoltaic solar array ...more |
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In 2009 Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles celebrated its 60th anniversary by adding solar panels to perhaps a not-so green building. It ...more |
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A renowned farmers’ market consultant was invited to Blacksburg, Virginia, to give an assessment of the town’s farmers’ market; she advised the ...more |
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Born of a predilection to serve healthy food, organic coffee, and an array of other culinary creations, in August 2009, Claire’s on Cedros bakery ...more |
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Green Building in the Trees
Earth Times/Ann Kohut - Dec. 1, 2009 – Come take a walk on the “Wild Side” … or a roll, a climb, a slide or a ...more |
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Canton Tower, also known as the Guangzhou TV Tower, is 600 meters tall, twisting over the Haizhu District of Guangzho (formerly known as Canton), ...more |
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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) headquarters, also known as the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, was designed in 1997. Back then, green ...more |
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Before renovation of this 1959 high school, the south façade glazing was exposed to direct solar radiation, causing the classrooms to overheat on ...more |
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The Community of Civano, located in the southeast part of Tucson, is, according to its planners, "an antidote to urban sprawl's five banes: loss of ...more |
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The Devonshire Building is a solar building, that automatically opens and closes banks of shades on its south facing façade. The intelligent system ...more |
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Only minutes from downtown Kansas City, Mo., lies an urban oasis: 11 acres of prairie, wetlands, and wildlife habitat surrounding the Anita B. Gorman ...more |
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The Druk White Lotus School is a small Buddhist school under the patronage of the Dalai Lama, and founded by His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa in ...more |
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The Earth Centre, Doncaster was intended to establish a world centre for sustainable development promoting the best environmental and sustainable ...more |
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For a Vancouver Island, Canada, couple, the objective was to live a reasonable life where their home becomes an extension of nature; where the ...more |
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In the heart of Denali National Park and Preserve, six million acres of protected wilderness surround the Eielson Visitor Center, the most visited ...more |
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El Dorado Ranch is a large resort community entirely powered with an off-grid solar power system. It also offers the option of building with ...more |
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The French inventor Georges Claude is largely forgotten today; if he is remembered at all, it is as the creator of the neon lamp. Yet one of his ...more |
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In the Enertia® Building System, solid Energy-Engineered(tm) wood walls replace siding, framing, insulation, and paneling. An air flow and access ...more |
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Johnny Cooke of Sustainable Green Builders of the Blue Ridge is letting nature takes its course in providing energy for his new home. A builder in ...more |
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This home features a vegetated roof, 2.4 kW grid-tied solar photovoltaic system, pre-plumbed solar hot water system, radiant floor heating on the ...more |
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ONE environmental installation by Envision Solar provides solutions for: runoff, light pollution, solar energy cogeneration, and urban heat islands. ...more |
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When Forrester Kurts Properties was planning the FKP Building, a 21-story high-rise office development in Brisbane’s central business district, ...more |
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ScienceDaily (July 19, 2007) — Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be ...more |
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This document describes an energy efficient, solar-powered home that was built near Interlachen, Florida. The original owners/designers lived in the ...more |
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Florida Power & Light's construction of the 25-megawatt DeSoto Solar Farm in Arcadia is expected to pay big alternative energy dividends. Germany ...more |
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Author: Alex Wilson/Environmental Building News
May 2009
The appeal of integrating wind turbines into our buildings is strong. Rooftops are ...more |
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At the 2009 Solar Decathlon, Team Germany from Technische Universität Darmstadt started with a "focus on the façade," creating a house that is ...more |
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“Going Green at the Beach” set a record by meeting the requirements of these and other residential green building certification programs: - ...more |
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The Great River Energy headquarters is a four-story, 166,000-square-foot building located on a 12.5 acre site in Maple Grove, Minnesota’s Arbor ...more |
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The Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky, was home to a dry-goods store for decades starting in the 1890s. In its adaptive reuse, the building is ...more |
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It's another brilliant day at the world headquarters of the hottest company on the planet. Some shirtless employees are playing a lunchtime game of ...more |
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Photovoltaic(PV) Systems convert the sun's light into electricity. When the sun is shining, they are working. The more direct and intense sunlight ...more |
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The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Lab is 6,100 square foot renewable-energy research laboratory where students study, design, and evaluate ...more |
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Located on the biologically diverse Peninsula de Osa in the rainforest of Costa Rica, Casa ISEAMI is totally off-grid using an on-site hydropower ...more |
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Inspiration for IslandWood came from the land itself, and the knowledge that half of Seattle School District children did not receive overnight ...more |
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By Ben Stewart - Jay Leno has been making his own power for almost two years thanks to a PacWind Delta II vertical-axis wind turbine mounted on the ...more |
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Kroon Hall, Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies building on Science Hill, is ultra-green. Designed by Hopkins Architects ...more |
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Lake Flower Apartments in Saranac Lake is a high rise apartment building (~9 stories tall) that provides housing to elderly people.
What is very ...more |
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August 2009
Lieberose Park, Germany's largest solar park, and the world's second biggest, was inaugurated on Thursday on the site of a former Soviet ...more |
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With the option of being utilized as a backyard home office or guest bedroom, the LifePod is a compact showcase of advanced sustainability. Eight ...more |
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The Lighthouse is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt ...more |
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As the first LEED Platinum-certified affordable multifamily development in Southern California, Los Vecinos set a new standard not only for the ...more |
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Lumenhaus is a zero energy, grid-tied active and passive solar, modular residence that was designed and built by a team of university students at ...more |
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Naomi and Rick Maddux created a strawbale home from scratch, built by hand in Boulder, Colorado. It took them nine years for design and construction, ...more |
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In Penobscott Bay, Maine, a 550-square foot cabin rests among the rocks and trees of the shoreline of Ragged island 20 miles east of the mainland. ...more |
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In the harsh Maine winter, this energy-conscious house produces its own heat, hot water and electricity from the sun that shines on its roof. In ...more |
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Martha Rose Construction leads the home building industry by building Green High-Performance Homes in the Seattle, Washington, area. In March of ...more |
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Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in ...more |
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The Masdar Headquarters building will produce more power than it needs (an energy positive building). In fact, the solar roof (one of the largest in ...more |
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World Water and Solar Technologies (WWST) places of solar-powered water purification units throughout the world, but in particular, in war-torn ...more |
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The architecture department of the Swiss Federal Technical University in Zurich (ETH) and the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) put many heads together to come ...more |
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More than a quarter of the world’s population burns fossil fuels for light, resulting in about 190 million tons of CO2 being emitted into the air ...more |
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Background:
The Oberlin College community had a vision for their Center for Environmental Studies: it would be more than just a classroom building. ...more |
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The Omega Center for Sustainable Living supplies all of its own energy needs, and its operation is carbon neutral. The self-sustaining building is ...more |
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One day early in 2004, Robert Noble, an architect specializing in sustainable design, asked himself why parking lots in the United States weren’t ...more |
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A significant portion of Patagonia's existing surface parking lot was enhanced by adding a system of elevated photovoltaic panels, which both ...more |
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In the United States, many communities are turning to community solar plants to power their homes and businesses using the rooftops of public ...more |
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This project is a major first: the only polar base operating entirely on renewable energies! Commissioned by the Belgian government, this represents ...more |
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By Karen Cilento — For three weeks in October 2009, 20 teams of college and university students will compete in the US Department of Energy Solar ...more |
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By Joann Gonchar, AIA, Green Source Magazine, October 2007 --
Coast Guard: A Non-Profit's Redevelopment of a Former Landfill Serves as a Model of ...more |
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The Shangri La Botanical Gardens rests on an extraordinarily diverse 252-acre ecosystem at the edge of the Adams Bayou in southeastern Texas. A local ...more |
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Lancaster, Calif. – August 5, 2009 – With 24,000 mirrors glimmering under the Antelope Valley summer sun, eSolar, a leading provider of modular, ...more |
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The Sol Cinema might be the world’s smallest movie theater. It is a micro movie house inside a small travel trailer, powered entirely by the sun in ...more |
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The idea of leaving the engine of a craft behind and using the endless fuel supply of solar or star light seems like a great way of reducing the mass ...more |
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Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) is the largest solar energy generating facility in the world. It consists of nine solar power plants in ...more |
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Real Goods Trading Corporation, a distributor of energy conservation and self-sufficiency products, wanted a showroom to mirror its retailing ethic. ...more |
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The Solar One central tower research facility was completed in 1981 and was operational from 1982 to 1986.
Solar Two added more mirrors and was ...more |
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The Solar Roadways will collect solar energy to power businesses and homes via structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon, to be ...more |
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The owners at Tourism London (Ontario, Canada) believe it is the tallest solar tree in the world at 23 feet (seven meters). The electricity generated ...more |
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Solara is a 56-apartment, affordable housing community composed of six two-story residential buildings and a 2,100 square foot Community Center on ...more |
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SolarAid is a non-profit that aims to enable the world's poorest people to have clean, renewable power using the sun. Right now, two billion people ...more |
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The Solaris Sun Shade is a solar-powered umbrella concept that provides shade while powering a laptop and other gadgets - using solar energy to ...more |
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Located on the green belt in Brussels, the Solaris office building is centered around two third-level atriums, and draws on two green energy sources: ...more |
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The SolarPump combines the adaptive reuse of an American car culture symbol (a 1950's Citgo gas pump) with an interactive system that harnesses solar ...more |
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Written by Anupam 2009
Soltecture (formerly Sulfurcell), a manufacturer of solar modules, has announced the development of a sustainable office ...more |
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Architect Max Pritchard nestles a sinuous, low-rise, energy-efficient structure on a cliff overlooking the dazzling waters of the Southern Ocean. ...more |
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Limitless Clean Energy from Space
National Space Society
August 2008
The United States and the world need to find new sources of clean energy. ...more |
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The Light Blossom, also known as Sustainable City Light, is a street light concept that collects its own energy from the sun and wind by transforming ...more |
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Sun Boxes were created by American musician and light and sculpture artist Craig Colorusso. They are a solar-powered sound installation comprised of ...more |
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Sun-Moon Mansion is the largest solar structure in the world in 2009. It will provide the main conference hall for the Fourth International Solar ...more |
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The long-awaited commercial deployment of the world’s most efficient solar technology looks like it will now be near Phoenix, in a 1.5-megawatt, ...more |
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After Austin’s Robert Mueller Airport moved across town in 1999, the old 711-acre site was slated for a complete overhaul. Based on principles of ...more |
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The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences’ spacious, brightly lit basement is filled with cheerfully painted pipes and the quiet hum of ...more |
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by Robin Rogers, Solaripedia - Tani Creek Farm in the Pacific Northwest uses sunlight for more than just growing vegetables. In the misty hills of ...more |
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 76 percent of all power-plant-generated electricity is used to operate buildings, and half ...more |
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By Nadav Malin - Wind Steals the Spotlight: Rooftop turbines draw attention to this new mixed-use high-rise in Portland, but it’s the less visible ...more |
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There's a website called Our Passive House, where the owners are documenting the design and construction of the first Passive House in Utah. The ...more |
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SolarWorld AG completed the first solar power plant for the Vatican right next to St. Peter’s Cathedral. Some 2,394 solar modules will generate ...more |
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The 70,000-square-foot Water + Life Museums complex is highly energy and water efficient despite its harsh desert environment of Hemet, California, ...more |
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The Watsonville Water Resources Center is a functional, educational, and visual extension of the water recycling plant it supports. The new 16,000 ...more |
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The X Tent is made from wood salvaged from trees killed by pine beetles - a locally sourced and milled product. It unfolds into a cross-like ...more |
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In creating the Zion National Park Visitor Center, the National Park Service (NPS), working with DOE's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), has ...more |
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PHILADELPHIA, June 15, 2009 – SRS Energy, a leading developer of sustainable solar roofing products, has installed the Solé Power Tile™ system, ...more |
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