The Bloomberg administration, hoping to inspire more imaginative design in working-class housing, intends to turn over one of a dwindling number of large tracts of city-owned land to a development team with an unusual plan — to build a low- and moderate-income housing complex bound together by courtyards and roof gardens that would be used [...]
Forget traditional slates and tiles. Why not cover your roof with living, sprouting flowers instead? The idea may have been around since ancient times — think of the hanging gardens of Babylon — but green roofs are finally becoming mainstream in Britain, the latest manifestation of our growing interest in sustainable, ecological building. Extensive green [...]
Lisa Chamberlain, NYT: It is a rare announcement for a new commercial office building these days that does not trumpet the new structure’s “green” features. In fact, nearly 5,000 buildings across the country, 90 percent of them new construction, are awaiting evaluation by the United States Green Building Council. The council is the Washington-based nonprofit [...]
According to some Christian theologians, the relationship between religion and environmentalism can be traced to one well-known couple – Adam and Eve. That’s how John Hart, a professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University, described it to an audience at Pax Christi Catholic Church in Eden Prairie, Minn., saying the pair were the world’s original tree-huggers. [...]
The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report on Wednesday accusing Exxon Mobil of spending millions of dollars to manipulate public opinion on the seriousness of global warming. “Many of the tactics, and even some of the same organizations and actors used by Exxon Mobil to mislead the public, draw upon the tobacco industry’s 40-year [...]
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