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Buildup to Greenbuild: A Conversation with Paul Raff (Video)

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Buildup To Greenbuild: See The Winners of the Toronto Urban Design Awards

Every two years the City of Toronto presents the Urban Design Awards, with an independent jury choosing among dozens

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Buildup To Greenbuild: Levitt Goodman Architects From The Archives

When I did my post Buildup To Greenbuild: Green Buildings From TreeHugger Archives I somehow completely forgot the

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Buildup to Greenbuild: A Conversation with Terry Montgomery (Video)

Terry Montgomery is a principal in Montgomery Sisam

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Check Your Tech Before You Come To Greenbuild

For people coming to Greenbuild and dependent on their electronics, life can be a bit like that bad horror movie where Nicolas Cage is wandering around looking for affordable coverage; it is...

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Buildup To Greenbuild: A Conversation with superkül Meg Graham

30,000 green building professionals are coming to Toronto for Greenbuild in October; this series will try to explain Toronto to them. Today: another conversation with an interesting Toronto architect.

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Buildup To Greenbuild: The Architourist and 5 Views of a Green Toronto

Dave LeBlanc, the Architourist in the Globe and Mail, interviews four talented green architects and me in his buildup

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Buildup to Greenbuild: How Green Is Toronto?

Last year before Greenbuild in Chicago, one of America's best architecture critics, Blair Kamin, wrote the introduction to Chicago for GreenSource Magazine. So I was pretty nervous when I was asked to...

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No More Buildups To Greenbuild; It's Here

The buildup is over; Greenbuild has opened in Toronto. I will be heading out to tweet and report from the Convention Centre for the next three days, and round up my buildup posts herein.

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BuildingGreen's 10 Top Green Products For 2012 Unveiled

I am a huge fan of BuildingGreen, but have not given a lot of coverage of their Green Product of the Year Awards. They are, to put it bluntly, not sexy, like watching Eoncote Ceramic paint dry. But I...

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Best of Show, Booth Design at Greenbuild: Kohler And Living Machine

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green,...

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Best Of Show: Sage Electrochromic Glass Is A Thermostat For The Sun

It is a fascinating product, glazing that darkens at the flip of a switch, eliminating the

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Most Appalling of Show: The Zurn Bariatric Toilet

We all know that America and the world are getting fatter, but I didn't know that they are even now making special toilets to deal with the problem. In fact it is, um, an expanding market; The Zurn...

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The Best of Greenbuild 2011: Innovative Green Building Products of the Future

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council...

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LEED-Bashing: USA Today Series Says It's Too Easy To Be Green (and a Whole...

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.

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CREE Brings Wood and Concrete Hybrid Construction To North America

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days

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Rick Fedrizzi Defends LEED, Attacks The Naysayers and Delivers Barn-Burner...

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress

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Method Homes Introduces New Paradigm Prefab Prototype at GreenBuild

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

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The envelope, please: BuildingGreen's top 10 green picks for 2014

It's the Oscars of green building products chosen by the experts, in the runup to Greenbuild.

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New LEED standards mean healthier, greener buildings on the way

LEED v4 is here.

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Amazing glass that tints on demand is now solar powered

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

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Pedia-Pod aims to "make kids feel like they're not in a hospital"

This pediatric care unit showcases how sustainable and kid-friendly design can come together.

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Best in Show: The Nexus eWater recycler saves water and energy

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.

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Touring the LivingHomes green modular for Make it Right at Greenbuild

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth

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Greenbuild roundup: Heroes, villains and vinyl

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.

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The envelope, please: BuildingGreen's top 10 green picks for 2016

It's a ritual; they pick the ten top products and I complain that they are not sexy. This year is different.

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Storing bikes? The Pushbike Arc lets anyone pack'em, stack'em and rack'em

This Australian design takes the work out of parking bikes.

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Cradle to Cradle products could be key to a healthy house

C2C products were featured in the Unity Home seen at Greenbuild.

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Scottish architect's Design-Build company MAKAR is doing wonders with wood

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

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People, things and the Best of Show at Greenbuild

There were inspiring people and some neat new things at Greenbuild, and my biggest ever Best of Show.

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