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Building Green - Green Products and Services Links
General | Sites | Water | Energy | Materials | Indoor Environment See Also: Resource lists from NRDC's Santa Monica office BuildingGreen, LLC This web-based company provides green building case studies and over 2,000 green building products organized by standard CSI divisions. Environmental Construction + Design - Green Book Environmental Construction + Design offers a print magazine and an online green product and resource guide. Good To Be Green This free directory of sustainable products and accredited green building professionals contains resources for both residential and commercial builders. Greenguard Environmental Institute Greenguard provides a guide to third-party, certified low-emitting interior products and building materials (registration required). Green Seal Certified Products Green Seal is an independent, nonprofit organization that identifies and promotes green products and services.
Green-Roofed Japanese School Boasts a Transforming Interior | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
This beautiful preschool in Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan is a light-filled space that rises from a sea of rice fields. Designed by UZU Architects , Otonoha School features a clean, bright design that seamlessly blends the outdoors and indoors while offering abundant spaces to play. The school is dedicated to music and agriculture and it offers a large open floor plan that easily transforms into small discrete environments thanks to a sophisticated movable wall system. Capped off with plenty of daylight and passive heating, the school is a perfect environment in which to learn about the environment. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
Une maison passive en bois testée, mesurée et contrôlée pendant 5 ans - Innovation chantiers - Le Moniteur.fr
Frédérique Vergne | 05/11/2010 | 17:06 | Innovation chantiers Photo n° 1/12 © FV Autonomie Le rez-de-chaussée est conçu comme un espace de vie totalement autonome, accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite. Il repose en partie sur des poteaux bois fixés sur des plots côté Nord-Est, un porte-à-faux permettant de bénéficier d'un abri véhicules en rez-de-jardin. Il est également prolongé d'une terrasse. Photo n° 1/12 - © FV / Groupe Moniteur Autonomie Le rez-de-chaussée est conçu comme un espace de vie totalement autonome, accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite. Il repose en partie sur des poteaux bois fixés sur des plots côté Nord-Est, un porte-à-faux permettant de bénéficier d'un abri véhicules en rez-de-jardin. Il est également prolongé d'une terrasse.
America’s 120 million buildings consume a prodigious amount of energy —42 percent of the nation’s primary energy, 72 percent of its electricity, and 34 percent of its directly used natural gas.
