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...cost is through economies of scale, which is why he's serving as consultant for the Sonoma Mountain Village Project, planned by California developer Codding Enterprises and scheduled for groundbreaking late next year. "For the first time," explains Strong, "a developer has set course to create an entire town built according to principles of sustainability while keeping it competitively priced." Located 45 minutes north of San Francisco, the project is an entire community of environmentally conscious--and solar powered--apartments, houses and stores. "This," says Strong, "is solar for the people...
With an estimated $200 billion in U.S. health-care construction planned for the next decade, how hospitals are built and operated will have a huge impact on the environment. And Gail Vittori means to have an impact on those hospitals. With her husband Pliny Fisk III, Vittori is co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a nonprofit design center in Austin, Texas. MaxPot, as it's known, advises institutions of all kinds--from a homeless shelter in Austin to the Pentagon as it rebuilt after Sept. 11--on how to adopt environmentally sound materials and practices...
Other residents asked how Harvard would maintain biosafety in the area once the new science complex is built...
...We’re really disappointed,” Gatha said last night. “It’s obviously been there for 30 years, and my dad built it. It was pretty much his heart and soul...
...begin work on the Katrina Furniture Project's first neighborhood workshop at the edge of the Ninth Ward, just six blocks from the faulty levees. For now the project is funded by universities and private foundations. But eventually, Palleroni hopes to create a viable business in which locally built furniture - all made from recycled wood - would be sold nationwide, providing jobs for local residents who will make each piece by hand and pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher at the Hamer Center for Community Design at Pennsylvania State University...