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Lisa Gelfand, AIA, LEED AP, has written a new book, Sustainable School Architecture. It’s an easily readable guide to the design of high performance, energy efficient schools – both new and modernized — that takes you through the process from preliminary community-based design through opening day. The book contains a generous allotment of photographs, illustrations and diagrams. [ READ MORE ]
On Friday I had a chance to visit the expo floor West Coast Green Conference here in San Francisco. There were quite a range of products on display – everything from organic wines to spray foam insulation. Most were oriented toward the building industry. Among them were these compressed blocks of rice straw: This was the first [ READ MORE ]