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True Green / Making Choices About Original Design Features

Posted in Buildings, Modernism and Recent Past, Sustainability, tagged , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Passive Climate Management Features in Traditional Historic Buildings
Traditional historic buildings (built before 1945) were often built in ways that recognize the high degree of individual controllability that buildings that respond to their climate and region can have. Traditional and vernacular buildings, constructed before fossil fuels were in widespread use, required active participation of building occupants [...]

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True Green / How Do You Know When A Product is Truly Green? Part One

Posted in Buildings, Sustainability, tagged , , , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

How to Know if a Product is Truly Green?
If you have tried to choose a “green” product or material, you probably quickly discovered that there is a lot of “greenwash” out there – claims by companies that their products are green, have been “certified” by LEED, or are environmentally safe. Unfortunately there is not yet [...]

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True Green / Take it Out Back, Urban Sprawl, That Is

Posted in Buildings, Sustainability, tagged , , , , , , , on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My Old Salem blog on True Green got a lot of coverage, including getting picked up by Kaid Benfield from NRDC on his “Switchboard” blog. The evocative images of Old Salem, North Carolina with snow and the promise of a friendly “hello” seemed to find a wide audience. I took another walk around town later [...]

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True Green / Good Housekeeping is Green Housekeeping

Posted in Buildings, Sustainability, tagged , , , , , on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Believe it or not, small lifestyle changes can generate huge positive impacts on the environment as well as on our bottom line! The U.S. contributes almost 25% of the green house gas emissions in the world despite only having 5% of the world population. While it may seem impossible for one person or one site [...]

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True Green / Can We “Green” Museum Spaces & Heritage Landscapes?

Posted in Buildings, Collections, Landscape, Sustainability, tagged , , , on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Balancing the Needs of Museum Spaces & Heritage Landscapes with “Green Practices”
Okay, so you may be concerned that many of the recommended “green practices” you’ve heard about may negatively impact sacred spaces, character-defining features, archival collections, or heritage landscapes. It is important to remember that these recommendations are tools like any other tool. Just in [...]

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