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Scotland’s first ‘zero-carbon settlement’ is a 5,000 home eco-town in Cardenden, Fife. Cardenden Eco-town ‘Vision and Delivery Statement’ unveiled by Banks Developments in Edinburgh on 28 Feb, attended by MSPs.
Fundamentally this is an issue that is directly related to climate change. Not in the sense that a changing climate will impact on species choice, forest pests or increase incidences of storm damage or forest fires.
Biomass, Timber Supply Issues – article by Alastair Kerr, Director General – Biomass issues, Wood Panel Industry, climate, energy: man-made carbon emissions
Zerofootprint, a leading organization in the global fight against climate change, along with its partner the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, welcomes nominations for the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards.
This project is about 5 ECO chimneys – “ECOndicionadas” – that are now being built in Madrid in a new residential area called “ECO BARRIO” (Eco neighbourhood) integrated in a programme of sustainable architecture.
Biosphere Sustainability Centre, Gananoque building, Ontario, Canada by Paul Raff Studio, Architects: Canadian architecture development design
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has completed the first phase of the Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan, a comprehensive vision for helping the City of Chicago reach its carbon reduction goals in the downtown Loop
O’ Mighty Green Project, Eco Buildings, Green Wash, Project, Design, Images O’ Mighty Green : Greenwash Greenwash Project – by STAR strategies + architecture 9 Jun 2011 O’ Mighty Green STAR strategies + architecture Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (…) saviour of … Read more
Sustainable Scottish Building, tyrehouse in East Lothian: this is not the only UK earthship: at time of writing there are 16 Earthships being built in Brighton and there are some in Fife too.
Green Lighthouse, Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building, is a faculty building at the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The building has multiple purposes including teaching facilities, student advisory, administration and faculty lounge.
World Green Center, Santiago, Chile design by cCe Arquitectos – Santiago Business District Project development images, Chilean architecture news
Architype has submitted a planning application for the UK’s largest Passivhaus housing scheme for a rural site, near to their Herefordshire office. The project is the first stage in realising an ambitious vision to transform both the quality and the sustainability of developer housing in the UK
Integer House Hertfordshire, BRE Watford Building, Solar PV Glazing , The Smart Home Photos The Smart Home at BRE Watford Sustainable English Home, Innovation Park, UK – Transparent Solar PV Glazing by Polysolar 16 Nov 2013 Location: BRE site, Watford, Hertfordshire, southeast England The Smart Home, Building Research Establishment (BRE) Innovation Park Back to the … Read more
The experimental solar building LESO of the ” Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ” built in 1982 constitutes one of the main research tools of the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory