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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
From hospital Administrator to Green Builder...I have found my passion.
Tags: green living, sustainability, LEED, Green building, architecture, environmental, energy efficiency, chicago, bucktown
Monday, August 15, 2011
The Solar Roofpod is a “penthouse with a purpose,” designed to respond to the market for economical new housing in cities, and to be a solid investment for existing building owners.
Tags: sustainability, solar, Green, engineering, new york, architecture, power, heating, Urban, Solar Decathlon
Friday, January 14, 2011
By conserving water that we normally would waste, such as water from our roofs following a rain storm or tap water that we waste in our homes, we could generate more energy and use the water that nature freely gives us to use in our homes.
Tags: green living, sustainability, Water, Alternative Energy, Efficiency, hydroelectric, groundwater, clean energy, green architecture
University of Mississippi
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
In Oxford, Miss., architect Brent Swain is using passive solar techniques to build green homes. With his ideas, one home in the city has added 1,000 square feet of space but utility costs have decreased.
Tags: University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, oxford, Mississippi, green homes, sustainable architecture, passive solar, students
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The Solar Roofpod is a piece of urban infrastructure which captures the most underutilized energy, the sun, and utilizes it through innovative engineering systems to feed power to a single pod, whole buildings, and the city's power grid.
Tags: sustainability, solar, Green, engineering, innovation, new york, architecture, Sun, pv, HVAC
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The University of Tennessee’s Living Light house incorporates the knowledge of Tennessee’s past and present to create an environmentally responsive, comfortable home to meet the needs of today.
Tags: solar, Green building, renewable energy, sustainable, architecture, climate, heating, homes, Solar Decathlon, Tennessee
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Take a tour of the Living Light house, the University of Tennessee's submission for the Solar Decathlon 2011.
Tags: solar, Green building, renewable energy, sustainable, architecture, Solar Decathlon, Tennessee, university of tennessee, zero energy, students
SCIArc & Caltech
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
All mechanical systems in our house design have been selected to optimize the tradeoff between energy savings and cost of added photovoltaic (PV) energy generation.
Tags: california, solar, Green building, renewable energy, sustainable, architecture, Solar Decathlon, zero energy, students, colleges
(Cate Twining-Ward/George Washington University)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent
Monday, October 05, 2020
Moving to Copenhagen has made me realize that instead of constantly evaluating my personal habits, perhaps I should be more critical of the systems which ultimately shape society’s collective impact.
Tags: green living, Urban Sustainability, recycling, Green Communities, Copenhagen
The George Washington University
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Green roof-ing is actually what is up in urban sustainability!