Building Green
First-Ever Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program in Florida
Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Infrastructure The Town of Lantana recently approved the first-ever commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program in the state of Florida. A first-of-its-kind, the Florida Green Energy Works Program provides property owners. Read more
Roadway with Recycled Toilets is World's First Official 'Greenroad'
Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Recycling , Transportation , Waste Management Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington to promote sustainable roadway construction, awarded its first official certification to a Bellingham project that incorporates porcelain from recycled toilets. Read more
Green Jail to Demonstrate Power of Microgrids
Posted on March, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) , Infrastructure When the next “big one” hits northern California, chances are good that the power will be knocked out across large swaths of the Bay Area. But one place that is likely to stand unaffected is Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California Read more
Study: Nation’s Urban Forests Losing Ground
Posted on March, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Land Use National results indicate that tree cover in urban areas of the United States is declining at a rate of about 4 million trees per year, according to a U.S. Forest Service study published recently in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Read more
Integrating Pedestrians and Bicycles to Promote More Non-Motorized Travel
Posted on February, 2012 Categories: Bicycling , Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Public Transit , Transportation How Can Communities Effectively Integrate Pedestrians and Bicycles to Promote More Non-Motorized Travel? The Mineta Transportation Institute (transweb.sjsu.edu) has published a free report that identifies best practices and Read more
Wireless Power Could Revolutionize Electric Vehicle Transportation
Posted on February, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Consumer , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Infrastructure , Transportation A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The long-term goal of the Read more
Reuse of Municipal Wastewater Has Potential to Increase Future Drinking Water Supplies
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Water Management With recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal wastewater and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry, and other applications could significantly increase the nation's total available water resources, Read more
National Model for Electric Vehicle Deployment
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Business , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Hybrids , Infrastructure , Transportation A new coalition of executives from blue chip companies in the transportation and utility industries recently announced it has come together to design a large-scale electric vehicle (EV) demonstration project that will help create a comprehensive national model for EV deployment. Read more
