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...idea of greener - and cheaper - health is catching on fast among health-care CEOs. Some 150 registered health-care industry construction projects currently underway - involving about 30 million sq. ft. of new building space - have pledged to adopt the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC), a sustainable design toolkit developed in part by HCWH, which helps the health-care sector construct healthier buildings from the start, according to Cohen. For example, the guide suggests ways to maintain indoor air quality, as indoor pollution can cause or aggravate many health conditions and threaten the well-being of patients with compromised immune...
...Cleveland Clinic gave Siemionow the green light for the improbable operation, one that involved the transplantation of about 500 sq cm of skin, arteries, veins, nerves, muscles and bony structure, all of which had to be attached with sufficient dexterity to restore the patient's ability to feel, blink, eat, smell, speak and - not incidentally - smile. This was not what doctors call solid-organ transplant; it was a multitissue transplant, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than, say, a heart transplant or a hand graft...
Luxury on Sale. The Art Deco Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort reopened in November after a $1 billion renovation. The hotel added an iMac to each of its 1,504 ocean-front rooms, plus a 40,000-sq.-ft. spa. Through Dec. 20, the Fontainebleau is offering special rates starting at $289 per night, which includes a $50 daily credit for use at the resort's spa, shops or 11 restaurants. From Dec. 21 to May 31, 2009, rates start at $399 per night. 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach...
...standing and healthy for the next 30 years. It's called avoided deforestation, and projects like this may represent one of the most promising ways to simultaneously slow the destruction of tropical forests and the pace of climate change - if we can get it right. An estimated 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq km) of forest are lost to the logger's ax or to fire every year, and that hurts the planet in two very important ways. Rare plants and animals, many still undiscovered, depend on the forests - especially the rich rain forests that encircle the earth either...
Amazon deforestation (in sq...