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The Business Case for Green Buildings 2008
By: Jerry Yudelson - Friday, December 14, 2007
Source: Yudelson Associates

As we round the bend and head for home in 2007, I want to recap how the business case for green buildings has unfolded this year and to forecast how it is likely to develop in 2008. To sum up 2007 in a nutshell: the business community has totally bought into green buildings. That’s it, end of discussion.

Hurry! Hurry! Get your Ecologocal FootPrint Calculator Here!
By: Eco-FootPrint Network - Monday, December 10, 2007
Source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org
Currently, we are using resources 30 percent faster that they can regenerate - we are living in ecological overshoot and contributing to a mounting ecological debt.

Websites for Pest Management
By: Jon Dougal - Monday, November 26, 2007
Source: Various
Ednote: Pesticides, together with rodenticides, fungicides, fertilizers,and plasticisers form a compound that effects reproductive hormones called "Edocrine Inhibitors." Try to use mechanical or natural pesticides to reduce these chemcials.

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Orangutan-free Soap and BioFuel
By: Jon Dougal - Monday, November 26, 2007
Source: Various
If the equation for producing local renewable fuels causes the prices of food to increase in connection with vegetable oils, then the free marketplace will find a source ready to supply the oils regardless of the degradation on local ecospheres.

Jerry Yudelson, Green Building Consultant

Forward into the Past?
By: Jerry Yudelson - Monday, November 19, 2007
Source: iGreenBuild.com
I thought of titling this column, “Back to the Future,” in honor of older technologies for buildings being rediscovered and re-purposed, such as daylighting for health and vitality, natural ventilation instead of forced drafts, operable windows to catch a spring breeze and even radiant floor heating to warm all those cold feet. With modern sensors, electronic control technologies and building automation systems, we can make just about any technological system for building comfort perform well. But sustainability in and for the built environment requires a greater leap of the imagination and a broader understanding of the human purpose.

Green House Emissions in California - Air Pollution 101
By: Nissim Malul - Thursday, November 1, 2007
Source: www.letsreduce.com
A concerned contributing Author voices his concerns about Green House Emissions in California !

Krill As A Source of Bio-Diesel?
By: TomCatino - Thursday, November 1, 2007
Source: Algae resources
Ednote: krill are loosing ground in the Antarctica where they mostly grow. Penguins are suffering and loosing populations, etc. Krill are the basic bottom of the food chain. We don’t want to start another reason to use up the remaining krill populations but the info below is very interesting.

EPA to Restrict Use of Dangerous Pesticide
By: EPA - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Source: Environmental Protection Agency
(Washington, D.C., October 31, 2007) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced significant measures to protect drinking water sources and avoid harm to wild birds from the pesticide aldicarb.

The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE
By: The Green Grid - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Source: The Green Grid
This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency” to refine the nomenclature and intent of that paper.

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