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LEED Firsts

LEED is still very much in its infancy. How can I tell? Everyone still talks about LEED firsts. Here are just a few that I have found while surfing the internet.

The USGBC Owes Its Success to Al Gore

I believe that while green building and sustainable design would have continued on its slow course to the mainstream, it was Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that set the trend ablaze.

Solar Panel Terms and Design Tips

We recently investigated adding solar power to one of our projects; a small retail building in California. I learned quite a bit and I thought I would share some information I learned.

Hidden Costs of Products and Buildings

True sustainable design cannot account for only the direct usage of resources, but the life cycle costs of all items that our processes consume to manufacture and distribute those resources.

Plane vs Car vs Whopper with Cheese?

What is more efficient? A hybrid with only a driver or an SUV with a driver and 3 passengers? Good.is gets the story straight.

My Dopplr Personal Travel Report

I found Dopplr a middle of 2008 and thought it was just a niche social network centered around travel.  I added some trips, didn’t find any friends and added an app to my facebook. Then I recieved my Personal Travel Report.  What an amazing service!  I really like visualizations of data and this was most [...]

How Eco are BJG fonts?

The ecofont has been going around the internet and NPR lately. I liked the idea quite a bit. After downloading the font and trying it out, I became interested to see how our standard BJG fonts stacked up against the ecofont.

Finally, Weather Data!

Review of ECOTECT weather data tools.