Sentences with phrase «other green building»

It's also an example of good business sense: like many other green building improvements, green roofs are an expenditure in which the cost is earned back in utility cost savings.

But like other green building myths, that's not necessarily true, as San Francisco - based artist and designer Jay Nelson proves with the artful living quarters found in his quirky geometric campers, all of which are built up around modified, scrappy secondhand vehicles.

«Gish Apartments is a groundbreaking development both for its architectural design and in its use of renewable energy technologies and other green building features.

Daylighting, along with other green building features, has been shown to reduce sick days and increase students» productivity.]

WELL is third - party certified through IWBI's collaboration with GBCI, which administers 10 + billion square feet of LEED buildings globally, so that WELL can work seamlessly with LEED and other green building certification programs.

I am in the other green building beside the lumber yard.

Green hotels are catching on: hotels across the world are incorporating LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and other green building practices into their spaces, changing the way hotels are designed, built and operated.

The homes will incorporate water - use reduction, insulation, and other green building features, and will be affordable to families at or below 90 percent of area median income.

Not exact matches

Balat — the Jewish quarter of Istanbul since the Byzantine era — is a patchwork quilt of red, blue, and green buildings piled on top of each other.

If they'd agree to forge long - term partnerships with Lightfoot, who had nearly a decade of supply - chain expertise under his belt, he could build local greenhouses to provide kale, spinach, romaine, and other salad greens.

And there are still others that a much smaller but growing group of companies heeds — LEED green - building standards and B Corporation guidelines of social and environmental responsibility.

Attract a wider array of capital to clean energy investments by developing innovative financing structures — from reducing investment risk though our Catalytic Finance Initiative to engaging individual investors through our Socially Responsible Investing platform to building new markets for green bonds, yield - cos and other vehicles.

* The effectiveness of marketing messages depends on relevance and quality (and not only on frequency) * Think in terms of abundance (the pie is infinite and helping others is helping yourself) * Build alliances with competitors, customers, suppliers, non-profits, and businesses in different markets * Be the early movers in green marketing and make the message believable and genuine (avoid greenwashing)

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Nashville's Music City Center green roof, created by Greenrise Technologies, is built with plants, grasses and other living things.

Leafy greens, especially in the raw form, are an alkaline promoting food, so eating them assists our bodies in achieving that necessary slightly alkaline pH. Leafy greens are also great bone builders, as they have more vitamin K than any other food, which is crucial for the bone building proteins to function properly.

Not only do they compost all of their garbage (Merchandise Mart is the largest green certified building in the country), they donate any unused food to area non-profit agencies to repurpose the food at homeless shelters among other places.

Imagine a big table with grain - free chips, guacamole, salsas, non-dairy sour - cream, green onions, plantain chips and any other topping you can think of for your guests to build their own chili bowl.

By launching the Sustainable Food Awards, we want to honor those who are helping build a sustainable food industry, as well as inspire others to take the green path.»

Massachusetts helps cities and towns that adopt the Green Communities Act maximize energy efficiency in public buildings, generate clean energy from renewable sources, and manage rising energy costs with grants and other assistance.

As you stack one on top of the other, describe what you're doing by saying «I'm building a really tall tower» or «Let's put this green block on top of the red one.»

Liberty's story is heart - wrenching: she experienced the death of her baby due to toxic out - gassing in his nursery and started a green building store so no other parent would have to ever experience what she did.

They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.

We look forward to working with NYSERDA and the other partners in the Green Jobs / Green New York program to bring energy efficiency, comfort, health and safety, and building durability improvements to the homes and business of tens of thousands of New York residents over the coming years.

• The city plans to complete a «comprehensive sustainability plan» that will contain strategies to enhance urban forestry, alternative energy, green building and other environmental goals.

Manna has also served as Chair of the Rosendale Environmental Commission and Vice-Chair of the Ulster County Environmental Management Council, helped found the HV Green Building and Renewable Energy Working Group, was on the board of the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange, help start the Hudson Valley Biodiesel Coop, and is a long - standing member of the Mid-Ulster League of Women Voters and numerous other civic organizations.

That MOU stated, among other things, that Freshdirect would commit to local hiring, that they would expand their services to the entire Bronx, that they would build a «green» delivery fleet and that they would work to accept EBT benefits for their services, among other things.

As the Green Party candidate, a party founded on environmental issues, Levy says he wants a ban on nuclear power plants in New York and also wants to see affordable housing and other buildings in New York made with eco-friendly and sustainable materials and practices.

We're exploring how the left that's engaged in independent political action can build on the successes of Kshama Sawant / Socialist Alternative campaign in Seattle, the Howie Hawkins campaign for New York governor and other Green Party campaigns around the country, and the powerful example in Jackson, Mississippi, that was so tragically cut short by the untimely death of Chokwe Lumumba.

John Healey, a minister in Tony Blair's government, said he agreed with the Unite union general secretary, Len McCluskey, that the party's standing in the opinion polls was «awful» but said the answer was not building alliances with other progressive parties, such as the Liberal Democrats or the Greens.

Based on Synapse's commitment to earn the highest rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, the project was entitled to the same tax break given other projects under the city's «green» payment in lieu of taxes proGreen Building Council, the project was entitled to the same tax break given other projects under the city's «green» payment in lieu of taxes progreen» payment in lieu of taxes program.

I plan on helping other Green Party members and supporters build the Green Party in Broome County!

A 2010 report from the U.S. Green Building Council and others found that the education sector is the fastest growing market for green buildGreen Building Council and others found that the education sector is the fastest growing market for green buildgreen buildings.

This is why we need to protect buildings as well as humans in cities in future urban planning, so the strategic placing of hedges, trees and other green infrastructure can have a direct benefit as an air pollution control measure in cities.»

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

Other green roofs have been installed at the Bronx County Courthouse (10,000 square feet), Ikea in Brooklyn (70,000 square feet), Ethical Culture Fieldston School (two roofs, measuring 5,100 square feet and 1,500 square feet, in the Bronx), a Con - Edison building in Long Island City (a quarter of an acre, or about 10,000 square feet) and Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey (about 5,000 square feet).

The cells, which can be processed to be transparent or in shades ranging from light green to brown, could be used to make building windows, smartphone screens, car sunroofs and other surfaces into sources of sustainable energy.

Other NIST programs that got a favorable nod: green manufacturing (+ $ 10 million), cyber security (+ $ 10 million), disaster - resilient buildings (+ $ 5 million), and measurement and standards for manufacturing biologics, or cell - derived drugs (+ $ 10 million).

Half of the housing units included in the study had been built using green building standards and policies and the other half were conventionally constructed.

Developed by the United States Green Building Council, the LEED certification process gives commercial buildings a scorecard for meeting standards for location and transportation, materials and resources, and water efficiency, among others.

Now the buildings will be totally green with geothermal heating and cooling, greywater storage and filtration bathrooms [and] other amenities, but without throwing the baby lemurs out the windows with the greywater.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

(F) Any other requirements, standards, checklists, or rating systems for green building or sustainability as the Secretary may identify and adopt by regulation, as may be necessary for purposes of this paragraph, except that the Secretary shall make a determination regarding whether to adopt and apply any such requirements, standards, checklist, or rating system for purposes of this section not later than the expiration of the 180 - day period beginning upon date of receipt of any written request, made in such form as the Secretary shall provide, for such adoption and application.

Researchers at Michigan State University have built a molecular Swiss Army knife that streamlines the molecular machinery of cyanobacteria, also known as blue - green algae, making biofuels and other green chemical production from these organisms more viable.

To achieve these targets, the plan calls for controlling emissions from energy - intensive industries like power and steel, building a unified national carbon emissions trading market, implementing emissions reporting and verification for key industries, and establishing a green finance system, among other measures.

To get yourself in the habit of drinking green smoothies, you've got to schedule it into your day, as you would any other habit you were trying to build.

Starbucks has doubled down on other sustainable initiatives in recent years — stores nationwide are now using greener building practices, sourcing ethical coffee, and reducing food waste — so this is a logical next step.

In addition, you'll get a 7 - day video course to get you started with making green smoothies, reading food labels, and lots of other useful information to help you navigate and build on your healthy lifestyle of awesome!

In our quest to improve our health and fitness, one amazing addition to a healthy meal plan of a combination of organic meats, fruits, vegetables, essential fatty acids, probiotics, is a super food powder blend with a whole food multivitamin - mineral combination built in.Super food blends with a natural vitamin - mineral blend added, are generally made from spinach, broccoli, spirulina, oat grass, barley greens, chlorella, grape seed extract, white tea extract, ginseng, tomato powder, beet powder, acai berry extract, milk thistle, dandelion root, apple fiber as well as many other high ORAC super foods.

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