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Plumen 002 LED: Elegance in Energy Efficiency
Editor’s Foreword: This article consists of writing from the Editor as well as Plumen. On one hand I can count the number of times that I have gotten excited about energy efficient light bulbs. One time was during my first attendance of the 2010 Ecobuild in London when I came across Plumen’s sleek and sculptural…
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Taipei Hackathon to Promote Energy Efficiency as Cultural Norm
The What: Taipei City is hosting a Smart and Energy Efficient Home Hackathon on November 22, 2015 at National Taiwan University. The goal is to provide effective and creative energy saving ideas to Taipei’s citizens to enable them to reduce energy usage and pollution and promote energy efficiency as a cultural norm. The event is…
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Architecture at Zero 2015 Winners
Recently the winners of Architecture at Zero 2015 were announced and awarded by PG&E and the American Institute of Architects, California Council. Now in its fifth year, this zero net energy design competition open to architecture, engineering, planning students and professionals was conceived as a response to the zero net energy (ZNE) targets set out…
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Gas Station Transformed into LEED Gold Hotel
If you are planning to visit Healdsburg in the wine country of Northern California, try to check out the LEED Gold certified h2hotel in between your wine tasting. Designed by award-winning David Baker Architects and selected by Fodor’s 100 Hotels 2012 as one of the top recommended hotels in the world, the 36-room inn is…
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Ecoweek 2015 – Greece
The What: Ecoweek 2015-Greece, International Conference & Sustainable Design Workshops with the theme of Sustainability in Public Space, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece this November. In its 10th year, the conference brings together presenters from Greece and Spain to Netherlands and Germany and inspirational topics ranging from Societal Equity Through Sustainable Design to Nanotechnology…
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From Down and Out to Solar Pioneer
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara (HACSC) has successfully transformed a previously foreclosed federal housing complex into a dignified and energy efficient, affordable family housing complex that annually feeds 244,350 kWh of renewable energy to the power grid and enables all the residents to “go solar” and reap the cost benefits of…
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Building Carbon Zero 2015
The What: The 4th annual Building Carbon Zero conference hosted by Passive House California will take place in Palo Alto, California this year. The Program includes engaging speakers, a bike tour of projects including Palo Alto’s first passive house and a tiny Passive House named Mightyhouse. The keynote speaker will be Peter Busby, Principal at Perkins+Will…
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AEC Hackathon 2.6 New York
The What: AEC Hackathon 2.6 New York goes to New York for the second time this year. The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies as well as with its developers and designers. The first AEC Hackathon…
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Triple Green Building Certification Is Achievable
Portland and Seattle-based builder Hammer & Hand was recently awarded the 2015 Housing Innovation Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for its energy consulting on and construction of the Pumpkin Ridge Passive House designed by Scott | Edwards Architecture. Builder and architect worked together closely to meet the homeowners’ spatial and aesthetic goals while also meeting the performance…
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$20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Registration is open. The grand challenge has been put forth – how can we reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by converting it into something valuable? The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE will challenge the world to reimagine what we can do with CO2 emissions by incentivizing and accelerating the development of technologies that…
