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In April of 2009, Toronto became the first city in North America to mandate green roofs for most types of new construction. By a City Council vote of 36-2, the legislation was to require green roofs on all residential buildings over 6 stories, schools, affordable housing developments, and commercial and industrial buildings [...]
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energy issues in the built environment
Tag: gimmick
From the Stupid Mandates Dept.
From the Gimmick Department: Efficiency Forecasts
Tom Delconte posts on Home Energy Pros one of the more ridiculous things I’ve seen in a while:
… shhh, don’t tell ! I recently ran across this functionality on Accuweather, after doing a google search for something or other:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york-ny/10007/home-energy-effi…
If you click on the about button, you essentially get a zero explanation. Monitoring it [...]
One way to reduce demand…..
….wear air-conditioned jackets:
Kuchofuku Co. Ltd — whose name literally means “air-conditioned clothing” — has seen orders soar amid power shortages in Japan after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
As parts of the nation sweat out an uncomfortable summer shackled by restrictions on electricity use, demand has grown for goods [...]
Good and Green Buildings
This post links to a study titled “Green Building and Productivity“. Green buildings are often sold using a triple bottom line approach which is basically an accounting scheme that includes positive externalities (equity, environment, economy). Green buildings apparently excel in these areas, making them superior to your average run-of-the-mill code compliant building (personally I dislike [...]
Gimmicks Continued…”R+ Window Insulator”
Immediately after publishing my last post on the amazing seepage cooling system, RESNet posts this to their blog:
The R plus Window Insulator can save residential and commercial building owners or occupants hundreds of dollars in heating and cooling costs. Within minutes of the no hassle installation you will feel and hear the difference these window [...]
From the Gimmicks Department…”Seepage”
If you watched Dr. Joe’s video from my last post you’d of heard him rant about green buildings and gimmicks. Today I came across a great one in the form of cooling via seepage and evaporation:
Ecooler is a concept hollow tile that connects with other tiles, creating a wall of water-filled ceramics. It’s intended to [...]