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Green Building Information
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"According
to Worldwatch Institute, 40 percent of the raw materials annually extracted
from the earth are transformed into building materials. Buildings are also
responsible for an estimated 40 percent of global energy consumption-and the
associated smog, acid rain, and global warming emissions. A campus
commitment to green design says something very positive about a school and
may provide substantial public relations, recruitment, and retention
benefits as well."
Read more in "A Facilities Manager's Guide to Green Building Design,"
by Walter Simpson. From the APPA Facilities Manager magazine:
http://www.appa.org/FacilitiesManager/articleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=437
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Green Building Examples
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"A
central philosophical and methodological underpinning of ecological design
is the notion that natural ecological systems should serve as a template for
human designs. In contrast to most contemporary architectural endeavors, and
in keeping with this principle of ecological design, the Center was
explicitly conceived as an integrated building-landscape system that would
continue to change and to improve in performance over time."
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Prof. John Petersen,
Oberlin College, on the evolving design of the AJLC environmental
studies building.
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Oberlin College
- their award-winning Green environmental studies center
http://www.oberlin.edu/ajlc/ajlcHome.html |
The Adam Joseph Lewis Center
(AJLC). How David Orr, professor of environmental studies and politics,
author of Earth in Mind and other books, teamed with students and
leading designers to craft a building that uses energy and materials
with artfulness and efficiency, is powered by direct sunlight using
advanced technologies... "not just a building in which education
happens, but one that educates through its design and routine
operations." (writing in
Yes! A Journal
of Positive Futures, Winter 1999. Other
awards and media
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