LOHAS Life Styles Of Health & Sustainability 30% of the USA (63,000,000 people) spend their discretionary income ($230 billion market) on green building, natural medicine, protecting the environment, social justice & organic food. You may be aware that LOHAS http://www.consciousmedia.com/lohasConfPage.html, http://www.lohas.com/about.htm , http://www.lohasjournal.com/, has determined via survey http://www.sustainablemarketing.com/cc?googleCC2 & published in their book, Cultural Creatives …
Product & Service providers in every industry sector are trying to position themselves as some iteration of green. California’s AB 32 Bill will require California (already the greenest state), to be ever greener. The current Global Warming Climate Protection concern has stimulated Cap & Trade Carbon Trading globally. Some Corporations are filing voluntary C.S.R’s (Corporate …
GREEN UPGRADES-When maintenance & repairs are necessary, upgrade to green. Non toxic paint, natural materials (wood, stone, metal, cork, concrete, wool, glass). Avoid plastic & synthetics. Upgrade the roof to a water catchment friendly material. Upgrade to radiant heat. Install a water filter for drinking water. Install solar hot water heating panels. Use solar garden …
Canada, many countries throughout Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and India are some of the hotspots of the international green building movement. The U.S. Green Building Council, which was started by American private businesses who sought to green the building industry, has created the World Green Building Council http://www.worldgbc.org/ . There will soon be a …
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is a global federation of Green Building Councils from the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Taiwan and Mexico. The federation is quickly growing and Green Building Councils are beginning to emerge in the following countries: Brazil, Chile, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Israel, New Zealand and in the United Arab Emirates. …
Green Building is finally becoming mainstream— We now have access to a range of Green Building Guidelines, educational resources (including websites, workshops, tours, brochures, etc.), incentives and even some green building regulations. For this, we have to thank the innumerable individuals, organizations, companies and government agencies who are co-creating the definitions of and resources for …
Health Hazards: Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) is the measure of radiation that is emitted from a computer, microwave, or other electronic appliances, cordless phone, or cell phone. A green building strategy for EMF mitigation is to isolate your DC direct current & AC alternating current. Wire your building DC for all the basic building systems …
The future for green buildings is to blend low tech, alternative buildings with high tech computer monitor devices so that the occupants become more aware of their resource use. The current applications of computer control systems that can be used for resource conservation and resource tracking are listed below by category: Weather: Weather monitors help …
GREEN LIGHTING- What makes lighting green? Lighting alone accounts for 10-15% of domestic and 25-30% of commercial power use. Strategies that reduce CO2 energy from lighting are green. Embodied Energy Manufacturing & Transportation Glass kiln &/or light fixture manufacturing facility to be powered by renewable energy such as solar, wind, veggie oil or biodiesel …
Marilyn’s Ultimate Green Building Checklist A Green Checklist is essentially a list of building materials and methods that you can incorporate into your project to make it GREEN. Within the past decade, many Green Building Checklists have been created around the world. They have been developed by different government entities, public utilities, non-profit organizations and …