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M&M's Musings - Green Building

Information, ideas and links related to green building, sustainability and related issues.

Biomimicry Institute

Contains information about The Biomimicry Institute, the Biomimicry CD for Children, and biomimicry case studies and news as an inspiration for new green technologies.

International Living Building Institute: ILBI

Answer the call to a Living Community - See why Living Buildings are the Future

Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design

AskNature is the world's first digital library of Nature's solutions, organized by function, that can serve as an educational and cross-pollinating tool as well as a collaboration forum among biologists, engineers, designers and other innovators.

Biomimicry Institute - Home

Contains information about The Biomimicry Institute, the Biomimicry CD for Children, and biomimicry case studies and news as an inspiration for new green technologies.

Canada Green Building Council: CaGBC

The CaGBC's new initiatives will enable large-scale reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for all building types and communities across Canada. Over 10,000 LEED APs now in Canada! The CaGBC is the exclusive delivery agent for the Living Building Challenge...

US Green Building Council: USGBC

U.S. Green Building Council LEEDIntro LEED v3 LEED Rating Systems Project Certification Professional Accreditation LEED Resources

$3 fee to help UGA go greener

Life at the University of Georgia is about to get more green. Starting next semester, students will pay a $3 "green" fee to support environmentally friendly efforts on campus.

The Value of Storytelling: The Changebase

A fear of greenwashing is not an excuse to stop you from telling your sustainability story!

GreenXchange

THE GREENXCHANGE IS AN INNOVATIVE REVOLUTIONARY PARTNERSHIP THAT BRINGS TOGETHER COMPANIES, PEOPLE, AND IDEAS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE THAT AFFECTS US ALL.

Healthy Schools Campaign

Healthy Schools Campaign advocates for policies and practices that allow students, teachers and staff to learn and work in a healthy school environment.

Cascadia Region Green Building Council

Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska

Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment

ENN.com: Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment

ED+C Magazine

Environmental Design + Construction (ED+C), the premier source for integrated high-performance building, is dedicated to efficient and sustainable design and construction.

2010: International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. The world is invited to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity

Environmental Leader - Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives

Green business news, corporate sustainability news and free daily newsletter that environmental and sustainability executives trust as comprehensive yet succinct in covering green business services, energy efficiency, facilities, logistics, computing, renewable energy...

GreenGopher: Clean & Green Resource Guide for Business including energy saving, water saving, green materials, toxin and waste reduction.

The mission of GreenGopher.com is to educate and provide clean and green resources for facilities, EHS, procurement, and manufacturing professionals. GreenGopher.com helps these professionals to identify solutions that will improve their company's stewardship and profitability.

Environmental Entrepreneurs

Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is the independent business voice for the environment. E2 is a national community of individual business leaders who advocate for good environmental policy while building economic prosperity.

Sustainable Facility

Your Environmental Source for Power Management

HUD-DOT-EPA Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities | Smart Growth | US EPA

Livability Principles Provide more transportation choices.  Develop safe, reliable, and economical transportation choices to decrease household transportation costs, reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, improve air quali

H20: S, M, L - One Bryant Park

The building's ambitious approach to water management equals its towering size.

H20: S, M, L - Efficient Plumbing

The dual-flush system is an idea whose time has come.

H20: S, M, L - Prairie Waters Project

Faced with a future of drought, Aurora, Colorado, has found an ingenious way to boost its threatened water supply.

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Bill Gates: the Most Important Climate Speech of the Year

On Friday, the world's most successful businessperson and most powerful philanthropist did something outstandingly bold, that went almost unremarked: Bill Gates announced that his top priority is getting the world to zero climate emissions.

Facebook - A useful Sustainability and CSR platform? | FabianPattberg.com

I guess most of you are also members of Facebook and I assume you are also interested in Sustainability and CSR. The question I have pondered on during the last few weeks is whether Facebook is actually a good platform for the Sustainability / CSR field. I am convinced that LinkedIn and Twitter are but what about Facebook?

Three Keys to Understanding Sustainability Rankings |Triple Pundit

David Letterman isn't the only one crazy for top ten lists; corporate sustainability rankings have become one way companies prove their green laurels to consumers.

How Wetlands are Good For Your Health, Good For The Planet : Planet Green

The balance of our ecology depends upon these middle kingdoms of biological activity. Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the...

Greener By Day...: Corporate Social Responsibility and Small Business

"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) should underpin the actions of organizations and the MBA should adopt a stakeholder focus concerning all those affected by the actions of an organization, rather than just shareholder focus." -"MBA's Adapting to Changing Focus", Jeanette Purcell, Chief Executive, Association of MBA's...

Contractors See Increasing Demand For Geothermal Home Systems - Hartford Courant

Geothermal heating and cooling systems work just as caves do: The temperature underground is more moderate than the air above. If it's 85 degrees outside, it's cool in the cave. If it's 25 degrees

If You Build It … - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

The actor Kevin Costner helped finance a oil cleanup solution that could be deployed in the gulf.

Carbon Dioxide Used to Make BPA-Free Plastic | Design | GreenBiz.com

Researchers have found a way to pull carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air and use it to make plastics that do not contain bisphenol A (BPA).
 

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo

Generation Green Archived Videos

Desert Bug-Inspired Bottle Creates Clean Drinking Water - PSFK

A desert creature that makes its own water in the harshest of climates inspires an award winning design.

From swords to plows: Introducing military veterans to farming - latimes.com

Veterans Sustainable Agriculture Training and other groups aim to encourage former soldiers, sailors and Marines to consider careers in farming and other food-related businesses.

New Website and Survey Look Behind-the-Scenes at Ecolabels' Environmental Claims | World Resources Institute

There are over 300 different 'Ecolabels' around the world. This site begins to analyze the different structures.

New Website and Survey Look Behind-the-Scenes at Ecolabels' Environmental Claims | World Resources Institute

Ecolabelindex.com allows consumers and companies to compare green certifications side-by-side.

As consumers and companies become increasingly aware of their environmental impact, a surge of ecolabels have flooded the marketplace. Today, hundreds of ecolabels worldwide compete to tell us which products are best for the planet. These colorful stamps on labels declare products to be "carbon neutral", "forest safe", "fairly traded", or any number of standards of sustainability. But in the self-regulated ecocertification industry, how can consumers and institutional buyers really know what these stamps of approval mean?

MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself | e! Science News

Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process.

A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand - The Globe and Mail

Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, the Joule technology requires only carbon dioxide, sunshine and water