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Passive Survivability: The Terminator as a Green Builder
Alex Wilson, the founder and executive editor of Environmental Building News and president of BuildingGreen Inc. is making the call for a new building standard called “Passive Survivability,” which he calls “a new design criterion that helps preserve crucial life support in the post-Katrina age.” Mr. Wilson spoke at the recent Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Building Energy (”NESEA”) 2008 conference in Boston, where he noted that 94 percent of the oil consumed by the world has been since 1955- the year he was born. “In one lifetime we’ve burned through something that took all of history to create,” he said.
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26Mar2008 | Paul McGinniss | 0 comments | Continued
Patriots to Purchase Green Power for Gillette Stadium
Not to be outdone by the green efforts of this year’s World Series champions, the New England Patriots have announced that they’ve signed a four-year agreement to purchase renewable energy credits to completely offset their game day electrical use at Gillette Stadium, whose regular consumption is enough to power 2,269 homes for a day. The […]
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15Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
The Sustainable World Series: Both Rockies and Red Sox Swing for the Green
The World Series got underway last night at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, which dates from 1912. The mere age of the facility, coupled with its dense, urban location, makes it inherently sustainable, but the Sox have also quietly started to implement a variety of interesting green features at their venerable old […]
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25Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 4 comments | Continued
Back to Boston: Revisting Beantown’s Green Building Legislation
I want to clarify a recent post I wrote about Boston’s green building legislation, which now applies to public and private development of more than 50,000 square feet, that was erroneous (in part from a confusing article along with some poor research on the part of yours truly- my apologies).
Titled “Green Buildings,” Article 37 was […]
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12Feb2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Boston Will Mandate Green Building- Public and Private- But Opts to Pass on LEED
Another day and another U.S. city is on the cusp of implementing green building legislation. All projects, public or private, of 50,000 square feet or more in Boston will be required to meet a city-developed green building standard. The new regulations will take effect in January after the public has an opportunity to comment and […]
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21Dec2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 8 comments | Continued-
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