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World's 'Greenest' Home? It Depends on What You Mean by Green
8:00AM 2/09/2011
Steven Glenn of Santa Monica lives in "the greenest house on the planet," BusinessWeek says. Which sounds exciting -- except Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute also lives in "what may be the greenest house on the planet," as this video put it.
Lovins has no furnace and pays nothing...
Martha Stewart Omnimedia (MSO) and KB Home (KBH) will launch a line of green homes. The announcement was made in conjunction with Builder magazine. The project is officially known as the "KB Home GreenHouse: An Idea Home Created with Martha Stewart."
The concept was unveiled ahead of the NAHB...
Putting Energy-Hog Buildings on a Strict Diet
9:00AM 10/04/2010
Energy, Company News, Technology, IBM, General Electric , Intel, Green
Cutting energy use in buildings -- both commercial and residential -- is a hot market for a growing number of tech companies, from giants such as GE and Intel to Silicon Valley startups. And the federal government is an eager booster.
Home Makeovers: $120 Million for Energy-Efficient Upgrades
8:00PM 8/19/2010
The Energy Department is funneling $120 million into financing and installing a variety of energy-efficient technologies to help low-income families cut energy use and save money.
If the three little pigs were building their houses today, the smart one would recycle the used twigs and straw from his brothers' huffed-and-puffed-apart abodes to reuse in a sustainable, reclaimed brick structure. It's the basic idea behind building "green" with salvaged materials -- and it's no...
Project FROG seeks to make pre-fab school buildings fab -- and green
2:15PM 12/02/2009
There is nothing more depressing than those beat-up, decrepit portable buildings that schools across the country use for classrooms or offices. Most of these trailers on blocks don't meet modern construction standards. That's because many are decades old, in use well beyond their accepted lifespan....
When Serious Materials announced $60 million in additional venture capital funding last month, investor Jim Pettit felt more than a little bit vindicated. Pettit and his venture capital firm Navitas Capital led the early funding rounds in Serious, a Sunnyvale, Calif. maker of energy efficient...
Cleatech is back in vogue, and financiers are jumping to get back into the green game. The latest quarterly cleantech funding numbers, released Tuesday by consultancies the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, show that preliminary results for the third quarter -- tallying clean technology venture...
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