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Green Building For Cities: Importance of Global Community

May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Green City Hong Kong

One of the things that I've noticed when it comes to green building, alternative energy, and urban planning is that the work being done to develop these areas are almost exactly contrary to how things have been done in the past.  This sounds a bit simplistic, maybe. But what I'm talking about specifically is that the fact that these efforts to improve energy efficiency and make the most out of sustainable resources are, by nature, cross-disciplinary. These efforts require experts in every field, … [Read more...]

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Garbage in, Green Building Out

November 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Even as the architectural and construction industries all over the world are scaling down traditional projects in the light of this global economic downturn, the numbers are showing that green building construction practice is on the rise.  This may be partly due to the significant returns on investment that green building represents, thanks to greater energy efficiency dividends.  Yet, as always, there are even more opportunities to be gleaned from the pursuit of green building practices, even … [Read more...]

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Canada’s Budget 2009: Housing and Energy Efficiency

January 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

 I was  happy to see Canada's federal government followed my advice in their new budget today.  What's the point of having a blog if you can't influence world events, eh? As part of the stimulus spending of $64-billion to be spent over the next two years, ($34-billion in 2009-10; $30-billion in 2010-11), there are some sizable sums earmarked for Infrastructure and Housing. To save you the trouble of looking back at the dates I recommended the spending, I'll reiterate here:  January 16, … [Read more...]

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2030 Challenge Stimulus Plan

January 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I've been going on for some time about why there should be government spending in green building. Here's a intriguing plan by Architecture 2030, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that promotes integrated climate change action through the built environment.  It connects a lot of dots in reducing CO2 emissions in the building sector while creating jobs and stimulating the economy in a responsible way. The plan has been presented to the new Obama Administration and it would be worth consideration … [Read more...]

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Built Environment: GHG Infrastructure

November 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Keynesian economic theory appears to be alive and well – or least recently revitalized if not completely resuscitated, thank goodness! Too bad it couldn’t be rationally adhered to in better times, but c’est la guerre! (That’s a figure of speech for you literalists.) Economic Stimulus: Public Funds Now it’s up to politicians to make prudent decisions about how much and when to stimulate the economy with public spending. If they screw up, they can blame the theorists; if … [Read more...]

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