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How Parking Lots Can Beat the Heat & Gain Energy

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:04:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: On hot, sunny days when air conditioners threaten to overload the power grid, solar power generation makes a lot of sense.

Parking lots in asphalt-rich cities have great solar potential because the panels can be oriented to optimize power production during summer afternoons when electricity is most valuable.

Google, for example, has installed solar canopies on its parking lots to satisfy 30 percent of its headquarters' power demand.

Because the parking lots for most commercial buildings are bigger than the buildings themselves, economies of scale for large installations can further reduce the cost of the solar panels.

We shouldn't wait until the next heat wave to think about getting solar power from our parking lots.

Clip Source: www.metaefficient.com

A start-up company called Envision Solar has begun installing solar canopies in the parking lots of shopping centers.

These lots, usually barren, heat-producing landscapes, can now provide shade for customers, while generating up to a half-megawatt of electricity.

Envision’s “Solar Groves” incorporate lights that turn on automatically at night, while blocking skyward light pollution.

Clip Source: www.envisionsolar.com

Envision Solar believes that energy should be clean and accessible to everyone. Solar energy is one of the leading sustainable solutions to the world’s dependence on carbon fuels. We intend to provide durable and attractive integrated photovoltaic systems to help lead the worldwide transition to renewable energy use.

Tags: parking, solar, zoning, energy, power, cars, smart idea, good use of space

12 Ways to Build with a Smaller Carbon Footprint

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:30:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Buildings consume 76% of electricity generated & they create 48% of our greenhouse gases. Main Points:

* Every brick in building required the burning of fossil fuel in its manufacture, every piece of lumber was cut and transported using energy

* Aim for a complete ban of formaldehyde use in building products

* Building demolitions account for 48% of the waste stream (65 million tons a year), renovations account for 44% and renovations account for 8%

* A solar water heater can save $ 450 a year and keep a ton of CO2 emissions out of the air; multiply that by 80 million houses in the USA

* While smaller is better almost every city has minimum floor area requirements

* The losses are higher in AC than in DC because it grounds so easily

* The average 1950’s house was 983 sq feet; by 1970 it was 1500 SF; last year it was 2350 SF

* We can no longer afford to lose agricultural land close to our cities and towns

Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

1. Ban Demolition.

2. Ban Formaldehyde

3. Deconstruct, Don't Demolish

4. Put Solar Hot Water Heaters on Every Roof

5. Get Rid Of Those Radiator Fins

every one of those balconies

is a giant radiator fin, constantly losing heat to the cold

6. Make Natural Ventilation Mandatory

7. Install Gray Water Recovery Everywhere

water coming from bathtubs, showers, lavatories (read sinks), and clothes washers are no longer required to discharge into the sewer main

8. Ban Minimum Floor Areas

"If you stay smaller and simpler, you can come up with a good design at a much lower cost, use fewer resources and minimize your impact on the environment."

9. Change Our Wiring to 12 Volt DC

Edison was right; direct current is better than alternating current

10. Change our Building Codes from Relative to Absolute

Encouraging smaller homes, like smaller cars, would save a lot of energy, but codes applies the same standard across the board.

11. Survival, Not Suburbs

moratorium on any construction on farmland

12. Plant a Tree

Tags: build smart, green, carbon footprint, development, sustainable, future

What Ideas Will Shape our Future? The 10 Ideas of the 21st Century

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:38:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on."

"The 21st century will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The 20th century saw the end of European dominance of global politics and economics. The 21st century will see the end of American dominance too, as new powers make their voices heard on the world stage."

"The challenges of sustainable development—protecting the environment, stabilizing the world's population, narrowing the gaps of rich and poor and ending extreme poverty—will render passé the very idea of competing nation-states that scramble for markets, power and resources."

"The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet."

"6.6 billion people living in an interconnected global economy producing an astounding $60 trillion of output each year."

Clip Source: www.time.com

ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on

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10. Re-Judaizing Jesus

if you get the [Jewish] context wrong, you will certainly get Jesus wrong

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9. Mandatory Health

a crackdown on workers' poor health habits

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8. The New Austerity

Americans have kept piling on more and more debt

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7. Synthetic Authenticity

the virtualization of life

has led to a deep consumer yearning for the authentic

Clip Source: www.time.com

6. Geoengineering

compensate for an intensified greenhouse effect by reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth

Clip Source: www.time.com

5. Kitchen Chemistry

remaining brave cooks are going a little mad scientist

easier through gadgetry

Clip Source: www.time.com

4. Reverse Radicalism

Why do people leave terrorist groups?

disenchantment

Clip Source: www.time.com

3. The Post-Movie-Star Era

big names no longer mean big grosses

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2. The End of Customer Service

the need to interact with human beings is quickly disappearing

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1. Common Wealth

ending our misguided view of the world as an enduring struggle of "us" vs. "them"

our fate, our common wealth, is in our hands

to save the world for all

Tags: globalization, economy, religion, movies, planet, common, humanity, culture

Father of India's Green Revolution Prepares for Evergreen Revolution

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:59:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “In every crisis is an opportunity” Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one.

In the early ‘60s, India grew 12 million tons of wheat every year. Starvation was rampant and the country imported much of its food. Swaminathan, an agricultural geneticist, developed new strains of high-yield wheat for his country and the programs that led to an India that exports food. Today, India grows some 70 million tons of wheat and has become the world's second-largest wheat producer.

He says that today India has reached a plateau in production and productivity because a problem of under investment in rural infrastructure.

His M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development follows a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.

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Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan received the first World Food Prize in 1987 for spearheading the introduction of high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India’s farmers.

Clip Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies

The 82-year-old scientist,

says the current food crisis offers the world a chance to put farmers on the right road to unending growth.

"I'm very happy now, because in every crisis is an opportunity,"

In the twenty-first century's "Evergreen Revolution", as he calls it, conservation farming and green technology will bring about sustainable change that could allow India to become an even bigger supplier of food to the world.

welcome news for the millions of impoverished people and food-importing nations who are struggling to cope with the surge in basic crop prices over the last year

The Green Revolution created a sense of euphoria that we have solved our production problem.

Clip Source: www.worldfoodprize.org

Tags: famine, food crisis, india, evergreen revolution, wheat, farm, green, sustainable

Porridge: A Good Source of Energy For Your Body & Your Factory

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:30:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A FIFE factory is to become one of Scotland’s greenest when it begins generating all its own energy from oat husks.

Quaker, which produces Scott’s Porage Oats at its Uthrogle Mills plant near Cupar, is to invest £6 million in a combined heat and power biomass boiler which will make it carbon neutral.

The husks, removed from the oats during the milling process, will provide 9,709 MWhrs of electricity and 10,902 MWhrs of steam a year, reducing its emissions by 9,000 tonnes a year.

“This innovative approach by Quaker to cut carbon emissions through investment in new low carbon technology will be a powerful signal to other businesses that reducing carbon emissions and looking for sustainable energy sources makes business sense.”

Clip Source: www.inhabitat.com

Scott’s Porage Oats, a Quaker Oats Factory at Uthrogle Mills in Scotland is installing a combined heat and power biomass boiler that will enable the factory to become carbon-neutral, running entirely on waste oat husks

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will allow oat husks—the part of the oat left over from porridge making—to generate renewable power for the entire site

the steam and electricity produced would reduce carbon emissions by 9000 tonnes a year—equivalent to the typical annual carbon emissions of 3000 cars

Surplus power will be released to the National Grid, preventing a further 1800 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually

The move will also cut out the need for transporting husks away from the site, which accounts for 172,000 miles and 600 tonnes of carbon emissions a year

Every service or product we purchase has an impact on climate change

Clip Source: www.inhabitat.com

Now none of the energy stored in the oats will go to waste.

Tags: eat your oatmeal, scotland, green factory, carbon neutral

Make it Right: With Over 80 Homes Sponsored, It's Time to Build!

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:23:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Over 12 million dollars raised so far: "We hope to see a huge change here in the next six months" said Brad Pitt on Sunday, when hundreds of volunteers began wielding shovels and rakes, preparing the land for homes. For hours, they cleared overgrown grass and weeds that were covering street drains and sidewalks. "We're working to get the grounds ready so construction can begin."

"Make it Right" is committed to: 1) Building 150 houses in the Lower 9th Ward, 2) Ensuring a green, affordable, sustainable, and replicable community to serve as a model for further rebuilding and 3) A finance plan that ensures that residents who wish to return to the Lower Ninth Ward can do so without further financial hardship.

The Lower 9th Ward was one of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in New Orleans when Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005.

Clip Source: www.makeitrightnola.org

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Former President Clinton and Brad Pitt met with hundreds of volunteers in the Lower 9th Ward at the site where a foundation headed by Pitt plans to begin building affordable homes for Hurricane Katrina victims

Pitt and Clinton broke ground with shovels after their mingling with the volunteers.

Clip Source: www.metropolismag.com

to create something that’s equitable and fair and has respect and provides dignity for the family within is absolutely essential to rebuilding here

With Make It Right, Pitt—founding a new organization

setting an initial goal of building 150 houses

Make It Right had raised more than $10 million, on top of the $10 million committed by Pitt and Hollywood producer Steve Bing. It is enough to subsidize 70 homes, with construction on the first group of five to begin this month.

If Pitt can pull this off, he will have transformed a swath of the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood symbolic of everything rotten in America, into one of the world’s most design-intensive sustainable communities

Tags: make it right, pink project, new orleans, brad pitt, rebuild, homes

Beyond Zero-Energy: The World's 1st Positive Energy Building

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:07:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Generates more energy than it consumes. The building’s aggressive approach to sustainability enables it to offer the lowest energy consumption per square meter for its class. The complex will utilize sustainable materials and feature integrated wind turbines, outdoor air quality monitors.

In addition to serving as the Masdar headquarters, the building will accommodate private residences and ‘early bird’ businesses starting up in the city. The Masdar development will be constructed over seven phases and is due to be completed by 2016.

Clip Source: www.smithgill.com

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setting new design standards for green building, with their scheme that generates more energy than it consumes

The Masdar Headquarters building outside of Abu Dhabi is also the first building in history to generate power for its own assembly, using a solar roof pier that will be built first to power the rest of the construction.

The building’s sustainability gave it the edge to beat 159 others in the international design competition.

The $300 million, 1.4 million square foot headquarters will serve as the stunning centerpiece of the super-green, car-free Norman Foster-designed Masdar City, the $22 billion development just outside Abu Dhabi.

one of the world’s largest integrated photovoltaic systems and the world’s largest solar thermal driven cooling and dehumidification system

Compared with typical mixed-use buildings of the same size, the Headquarters will consume 70 percent less wate

Masdar’s headquarters is part of phase one and will be completed by the end of 2010

Clip Source: www.smithgill.com

Tags: positive energy, sustainability, abu dhabi, future, super-green

IKEA Village: A Community of Affordable Pre-Fab Homes

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:52:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ikea is currently building a village of pre-fab homes in the UK: Creating a community of affordable homes.

These homes will be like nothing else seen before in the UK and will play an important role in helping first-time buyers who have until now been unable to get on the property ladder due to the spiralling costs of buying a house.

While Ikea will market the houses, Live Smart @ Home will build them. It will ask buyers to prove they are within the set income bracket and to register their interest online. Demand is expected to be so high that a lottery will then determine who becomes the first "Ikea villagers".

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Clip Source: www.bdonline.co.uk

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A new community of 93 pre-fab houses designed by Ikea

and you won't need to worry about putting it together

Ikea has teamed up with a British builder and they are making Swedish style prefabs for moderate income key workers such as nurses and teachers.

these houses will sell for $260,000 for a two bedroom townhouse

Assembled in a factory nearby, they get to the site ready to be bolted together and take about 16 weeks from start to completion.

The system is called BoKlok (Ikea speak for smart living)

Already in Glasgow, and now in Gateshead

built of sustainable materials and are energy efficient

They claim to use good planning principles in the surrounding community with lots of green space and parks, recycling facilities, and close to public transport.

Clip Source: www4.aname.net

In the middle of the 1990s, Skanska and
IKEA began a partnership with the intention

of building high quality homes for just about everyone. The result is the BoKlok flat – high quality homes at a price that people can afford

Clip Source: www4.aname.net

Tags: affordable housing, first time home buyers, homes in a box, what's next?

Island Wood: City Kids First Visit with Nature & Environmentalism

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:16:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An environmental learning center—nestled into a rustic 250-acre nature preserve—plays a dual role as symbol and teaching tool. "We envision a future in which all people view themselves as lifelong learners, and share an extraordinary bond of stewardship for the environment, for their communities and for each other." Raising of environmental consciousness, one child at a time.

“The center is primarily for inner-city kids who don’t have an opportunity to connect with the natural world. And when kids are uncomfortable, they’re not open to learning. So we wanted them to be as comfortable here as possible.”

The mission of IslandWood is to provide exceptional learning experiences and to inspire lifelong environmental and community stewardship.

Clip Source: www.metropolismag.com

Clip Source: www.islandwood.org

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Island Wood, a six-acre environmental learning-center campus built carefully, almost apologetically, into a 255-acre nature preserve on Bainbridge Island, Washington

to demonstrate architectural environmentalism and to elicit kids’ questions and interest

to address two apparently unrelated problems: environmental degradation and shortfalls in inner-city education

now covered with second-growth forest, and features—among other natural wonders—a pond, a bog, a marsh, an estuary, a deep ravine, and a harbor

brings in children and teachers from inner-city schools and hosts them for the better part of a week, giving them intense, hands-on outdoor science education and indoor exposure to “green” architecture

Washington State’s first LEED Gold project

everything from photovoltaic roof panels to a rainwater-capture apparatus and a greenhouse, called the Living Machine, packed with plants that filter Island Wood’s gray water for reuse

We don’t preach

we just make it obvious so they’ll ask questions

Tags: environment education, green design, sustainable, forest friendly, children hold our future

Underground City? The Future of Amsterdam

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:52:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dutch engineers have proposed building an underground city 6 floors under Amsterdam's picturesque canals, which would be drained section by section during construction.

It is both feasible and sustainable, creating a city beneath the city is not futuristic, it may be a necessity in this day and age.

And what will this city hold? Parking, shopping and "leisure".

Should they be digging up Amsterdam for parking and shopping, OR should they have added public transit and bike lanes instead?

Construction could last up to 20 years.

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Dutch engineers have unveiled plans for a £7.4 billion underground city providing one million square feet of underground retail, leisure and parking facilities.

what we are doing is building a city under the city by using a new construction technique, which will not interfere with street traffic

Amsterdam was originally built on drained, swampy marshland and many of the classic Dutch gabled houses along its canals are still precariously supported by underground wooden beams.

canal water will be temporarily pumped out in order to start construction beneath.

Amsterdam sits on a 30-metre layer of waterproof clay which will be used together with concrete and sand to make new walls

Once we have resealed the canal floor, we will be able to carry on working underneath while pouring water back into the canals

The project has been approved by Amsterdam's city council. Construction work, lasting up to 20 years, is expected to begin in 2018.

Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

Tags: amsterdam, moving underground, city of the future, parking, retail

No Traffic? Michigan to Build Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:39:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Michigan to build the country's first Maglev public transportation system: to be constructed between Detroit and Ann Arbor.

Interstate Traveler Hydrogen cars will carry people, cars (drive on/off) and cargo. Construction is set to begin this year (2008).

Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway? It is a collection of vital municipal utilities bundled into a Conduit Cluster: a public transit network built along the right of way of the US Interstate Highway Systems, and any other permissible right of way where such a machine would be of benefit.

It will be a integration of solar powered hydrogen production and distribution with a high speed magnetic levitation ( MagLev ).

A Maglev, or magnetically levitating, train is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (predominantly trains) using electromagnetic force. The first commercial Maglev was opened in 1984 in Birmingham, England.

Clip Source: www.inhabitat.com

What do you get when you combine the innovation of MagLev technology with solar power, hydrogen fuel, and a futuristic aesthetic?

The Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway, or the Traveler- a ground-breaking solar powered, hydrogen-fueled, zero emission mass transit system that would carry everything from people to cars in sustainable style and carbon neutral function

The construction is set to begin this year, and would connect Ann Arbor and Detroit.

a comprehensive integrated system of the public/private transit system and municipal infrastructure network

The Traveler Stations would be built to provide easy access to the Interstate Highway, solutions to overcrowding, urban sprawl, public utility failures, traffic jams, car accidents, etc.

Clip Source: www.interstatetraveler.us

To mass produce a unified public conduit system that can be installed anywhere at the lowest possible cost, the highest possible quality, with the greatest efficiency, built from the most resilient materials and is pollution free.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Tags: maglev, michigan, public transit, no traffic, solar, hydrogen, interstate traveler

No Smoging in Paris: Building That Eats Smog & Cleans Air

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:56:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: To absorb and recycle smog from the intense traffic near Paris in an "Innovation Center for Sustainable Development."

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Callebaut’s ‘Anti Smog: An Innovation Centre in Sustainable Development’ is a catalyst for cleaner air.

project balances public galleries, meeting rooms and gathering spaces over canals and abandoned railroad tracks in the 19th Parisian district

the process as an intention to “absorb and recycle by photo-catalytic effect the cloud of harmful gases (Smog) from the intense traffic near Paris.”

Under the smog eating exterior, the building houses public spaces with a central courtyard and natural lagoon, a place Callebaut envisions for teaching opportunities about urban ecology and renewable energy

also harvests rainwater from green space on the roof for use inside the building.

The “Wind Tower”

Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) to capture the prevailing urban winds

Ramps lead visitors through museum space and out to a rooftop garden with views across Paris.

an innovative urban space that is engaging, powered by renewable energy and has a positive impact on the surrounding urban environment.

Clip Source: vincent.callebaut.org

Tags: smog, sustainable, clean air, architecture, paris, no smoging

Turquoise Mountain: Invest in Afghan Arts To Save Kabul

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:28:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Battered by over two decades of war, limited access to new materials and cheaper imports from China and Pakistan, there is an urgent need to support the rural craft communities of Afghanistan.

The Foundation has developed a Sustainable and Authentic Crafts Standard, which guarantees the authenticity and ethical value of any Afghan products it promotes.

The Foundation will establish a permanent resource and research center where it plans to build a gas kiln, a workshop, a laboratory for testing glazes, and a library. This improvement in training and resources will be matched with valuable access to the visiting tourist market.

Clip Source: www.turquoisemountain.org

Turquoise Mountain is investing in the regeneration of the historic commercial centre of Kabul, providing basic services, saving historic buildings and constructing a new bazaar and galleries for traditional craft businesses

It has established Afghanistan’s first Centre for Traditional Afghan Arts and Architecture, gathering some of the greatest Masters in Afghanistan and training students to produce masterpieces in wood, calligraphy and ceramics

Clip Source: www.turquoisemountain.org

Turquoise Mountain plans to restore the ancient bazaar of Murad Khane into a unique historic centre for Kabul

It will provide infrastructure; levelling and paving the streets, installing water and sewage and delivering additional services to the community.

Clip Source: www.turquoisemountain.org

Turquoise Mountain has completed a rubbish clearance project that has seen the street level drop by two meters and uncovered building foundations submerged for over 60 years

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Rural Livelihoods Project

There is an urgent need to support the rural craft communities of Afghanistan

Tags: afghanistan, kabul, turquoise mountain, culture, arts, preserve, rebuild, ceramics

A Green Utopia: World's First Zero-Carbon & Zero-Waste City

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:53:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Abu Dhabi: Masdar City aims to be the world's greenest city....and the most sustainable city.

The Masdar development is a 6 km sq, car-free “walled-city” scheme. A challenging design that promises to question conventional urban wisdom at a fundamental level. Masdar promises to set new benchmarks for the sustainable city of the future

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WWF and the government of Abu Dhabi today launched a Sustainability tStrategy to deliver the world’s greenest city

Masdar City will be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, meeting or exceeding a set of stringent sustainability goals established under the “One Planet Livingâ„¢” programme established by WWF

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These targets are to be achieved by the time the Masdar City is completed and fully functioning in 2012.

ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy

ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products

SUSTAINABLE FOOD

SUSTAINABLE WATER

HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated

EQUITY AND FAIR TRADE Fair wages and working conditions for all workers

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Facilities and events for every demographic group

CULTURE AND HERITAGE

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Tags: utopia, green, city, masdar, sustainable, wwf

Destiny USA: World’s Most Sustainable Project

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:45:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mega-mall in upstate New York could give birth to a clean-energy awakening. It will operate 100% free of fossil fuels.

It will be the first "Retail City."

Clip Source: archrecord.construction.com

Destiny USA: a 75-million-square-foot retail, hotel, and entertainment complex touted as the world’s most sustainable project

started construction in late July

in Syracuse, New York

could one day feature 1,000 shops and restaurants, 80,000 hotel rooms, a 40,000-seat arena, a water park, aquarium, and technology park

An enormous glass canopy would encase a large portion of the complex, shielding it from the 110 inches of snow that Syracuse receives on average each year.

most nontraditional aspect is who would actually build Destiny—and how

a “unified workforce model,” whereby the same people who operate power tools on the construction site will later operate cash registers and stock shelves in stores at the mall

will have its own renewable-energy power plant, enabling it to operate independently of fossil fuels

A horizontal elevator system will transport people around the car-free mini-city, and a monorail will connect it to Syracuse’s airport and downtown

aims for LEED Gold certification

Tags: mall, destiny usa, syracuse, new york, sustainable, workforce, energy