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When most people hear the term "green building," they probably imagine something like Bank of America's (BoA) soon-to-be-completed Midtown Manhattan headquarters. The skyscraper will have floor-to-ceiling insulating glass walls, automatic light dimming, water recycling, air filtration and on-site power generation. Those green features have helped make the BoA Tower the first skyscraper to win a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating, the highest possible such award. They also helped ensure that the tower won't be cheap - the project is estimated to cost about $1 billion. (Read "Building Materials: Cementing...
...high-tech green features of the BoA Tower certainly look impressive from the outside, but the real guts of green design can be seen farther uptown, in the economically depressed South Bronx. There, the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo) - a veteran New York nonprofit - has just opened the Intervale Green housing development, a 128-unit apartment building for low-income families. (Watch the video of The Next Big Biofuel...
...traveled to Hanover, N.H. to play in the ECAC Team Championship. The three-day tournament was hosted by Ivy League foe Dartmouth and included seven of the eight Ivies. Seeded No. 4 in the draw, the Crimson (1-2) fell, 4-3, in the first round to the Big Green (1-5), but rebounded and dominated Cornell (3-2) 6-1 in the fifth-place match. Up first on Harvard’s schedule was fifth-seeded Dartmouth. Last season, the Crimson ended its 2008 campaign by losing to the Big Green, 4-3, in Hanover. On Friday, history seemed...
Then there's the green card: the $24 million Q400 burns from 30% to 40% less fuel than--and emits half the CO2 of--a 70-seater regional jet and offers up to eight more seats. ATR says its light, $18 million 72-seater goes further, consuming 30% less fuel than the Q400 and 50% less than a regional...
...bless us ... What a blessing - the karma gods are smiling on the whole country, man." - Joanna McKee, director of Green Cross Patient Co-Op, a medical marijuana advocacy group, Seattle Times...