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February 2015

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Green Building and Sustainability Stories: February Roundup

Flow-Hive, the Bee-Friendly Way to Collect Honey Father-and-son team Stuart and Cedar Anderson have devised an ingenious way to collecting honey from beehives, with minimal disruption to the bees.  Their invention, the Flow Hive, puts a twist, literally to the bee’s honeycomb structure.…
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February 28, 2015
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Happy and Green: Green Building and Employee Productivity

The equation is simple: green buildings make for happy, healthy, and consequently, productive workers.  At least that’s the hope. When LEED v4 came out, it brought a more reinforced MR (Material + Resources) credit to the scene.  Its potent message…
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February 25, 2015
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Why Sugar Is Bad, Even on Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day, if you truly love your sweetheart, do them a favor and don’t give them milk chocolates.  Or a cake.  Or cookies.  Or any other sweet goodies. As per tradition, Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse for sugar…
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February 13, 2015
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Biomass Energy Requirements to Become Part of Green Building Standard

Very soon, biomass energy  will be included in green building standards. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers), USGBC (US Green Building Council), and IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) are jointly developing new biomass requirements for inclusion in green…
neoli
February 10, 2015