Green building

The Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54) is an academic building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by noted architect I. M. Pei, a graduate of the institute. The Green Building was constructed 1962-1964. It is 21 stories tall, with a concrete facade that more or less matches the older limestone around it. The basement of the building is below sea level and connects to the MIT tunnel system. Three elevators operate in the Green Building. There are staircases on both the ...

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Cabrini-Green is/was a public housing development on Chicago's North Side, bordered by Evergreen Avenue, Sedgwick Street, Chicago Avenue, and Larrabee Street. At its height, Cabrini-Green was home to 15,000 people, living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings. Over the years, gang violence and the city's neglect created terrible conditions for the residents, and the name "Cabrini-Green" became symbolic of the problems ...

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• Cabrini-Green - Reputation
• Cabrini-Green - Current Status and City Plans
• Cabrini-Green - Cabrini-Green in Television and Movies
• Cabrini-Green - Chronology

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Green building - U.S. Green Building Council. The U.S. Green Building Council has developed some definitions of what constitutes sustainable design of green buildings through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED [2] green building rating system. The USGBC is one of the organizations in the World attempting to define what green building design should entail. In 2003, Canada and the USGBC formed the Canadian Green Building Council to adapt the LEED standard to the canadian reallity. The Green Building Council of Australia ...

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Green building, Green building - Green building in the U.S., Green building - U.S. Green Building Council, Green building - Legislation, Green building - Noted Green Designers & Builders, Green building - Sustainable town developments

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A clay court is one of the four different types of tennis court. The French Open uses clay courts. Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone or brick, and can be either red or green. The red clay is slower than the green, or Har-Thru(c) "American" clay. Clay court tennis - In the building. The clay ground is perhaps used the most in the world. The realization of the grounds of the houses or buildings public is done in three principal ways according to clay rate's in the raw ground. If there is an average ...

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• Clay court tennis - Types of clay
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Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. A building is usually a human-created object composed of more than a single element, permanently fixed to the ground, that mediates one or more aspects of the environment. Buildings may be as simple as a lone roof providing shelter from the rain for a single occupant, or as complex as a hospital regulating temperature, air flow, light, gas content, bacteria movement, particle flow ...

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The Green Man is a symbol of uncertain origin and meaning, commonly employed as a decorative architectural device in the British Isles and many parts of continental Europe. It is frequently found in carvings in churches and other ecclesiastical and secular buildings. "The Green Man" is also a popular name for British public houses. Green Man - An Introduction. The Green Man is a motif of sorts. The Green Man is known to have many different faces and many different variations. The Green Man "symbol" is often ...

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• Green Man - William Anderson's comments
• Green Man - Green Men outside Europe
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An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructual support services such as the electric power power grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and (in some cases) public roads. Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that include reduced environmental impacts, increased security, and cost efficiencies. Some cited advantages satisfy tenets of green building, not independence per se; (see below.) Off-grid buildings often rely very little on civil services, and are therefore safer and m ...

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• Autonomous building - Cooling
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College Green, previously called Hoggen Green, is a three sided 'square' in the centre of Dublin. On its northern side is a building known today as the Bank of Ireland, but which until 1800 was Ireland's Parliament House. To its east, stands Trinity College Dublin, the only constituent college of the University of Dublin. To its south stands a series of nineteenth century banks. A major street, called Dame Street, enters the square from the west. College Green has been used as an assembly point for major political rallies. In the mid 1990s, United States President Bill Cli ...

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Cabrini-Green - Buildings & residents. Cabrini-Green was composed of four sections, built over a twenty-year period: the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses (1942), Cabrini Extension North and Cabrini Extension South (1958), and the William Green Homes (1962) (see Chronology below). The construction reflected the "urban renewal" approach to United States city planning in the mid-twentieth century. The Extension buildings were known as the "reds," for their red brick exteriors, while the Green Homes, with reinforced concrete exteriors, were known as the "whites." Many of the high-rise buildings originally had ex ...

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Cabrini-Green, Cabrini-Green - History, Cabrini-Green - Buildings & residents, Cabrini-Green - How problems developed, Cabrini-Green - Tenant activism in response, Cabrini-Green - Reputation, Cabrini-Green - Current Status and City Plans, Cabrini-Green - Cabrini-Green in Television and Movies, Cabrini-Green - Chronology

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The 1975 film Cooley High was set in and around the Cabrini-Green projects, though primarily filmed at another Chicago-area housing project. The real-life Cooley High School served students from the Cabrini-Green projects, and acquired a formidable reputation in the 1970's as a school overrun with violence, crime, and drug use. Cabrini-Green was the setting for the film Candyman, made in 1992. The film chronicles the legendary life of the infamous Candyman (played by Tony Todd), a black slave who was brutally killed because of ...

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The Chicago Housing Authority, under a ten-year Plan for Transformation enacted in 2000, plans to demolish almost all of its high-rise public housing, including much of Cabrini-Green (excepting the rowhouses, which will remain). While Cabrini-Green was deteriorating during the postwar era, causing industry, investment, and residents to flee from its immediate surroundings, the rest of Chicago's near north side underwent equally dramatic upward changes in socioeconomic status. Cabrini-Green' ...

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Other concepts, methods and strategies often (or sometimes) associated with natural building include: building "underground," earth sheltering, or berming, "green" or "living" planted roofs, thatched roofs and cement-free rubble-trench or gabion foundations. To increase sustainability, various approaches to lower energy consumption are used in conjunction with natural building: on-site electric power generation by photovoltaics (PV), micro-hydro or wind generators (either with fully-independent systems referred to as "off-grid" or wit ...

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Natural building, Natural building - Materials, Natural building - Techniques, Natural building - Adobe, Natural building - Cob, Natural building - Earth bag, Natural building - Straw bale, Natural building - Timber frame, Natural building - Related ideas and strategies

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UW-Green Bay is a NCAA Division I school. They are a member of the Horizon League. UWGB competes in the following sports: Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Cross Country Golf Skiing Men's Soccer Women's Soccer Softball Men's Tennis Women's Tennis Swimming and Diving Women's Volleyball The UW-Green Bay women's basketball team has won the Horizon League regular-season championship eight times, inc ...

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Several of the major types of currently-popular natural building will be outlined below, along with the various techniques and materials commonly used. Many of these are traditional pre-industrial methods, techniques, and materials, now experiencing a resurgence of popularity and continuing up-dating, often stimulated by internet specialty discussion lists. Natural building - ...

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The materials common to many types of natural building are clay and sand. When mixed with water and, usually, straw or another fiber, the mixture may form cob or adobe (clay blocks). Other materials commonly used in natural building are: earth (as rammed earth or earth bags), wood (cordwood or timber frame/post-and-beam), straw bales, rice-hulls, bamboo and rock. A wide variety of reused or recycled materials are common in natural building, including urbanite (salvaged chunks of used concrete), tires, tirebale ...

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In July 2000, Tom Green became engaged to actress Drew Barrymore. Green and Barrymore met after Barrymore, who was a fan of Green's show, asked Green to appear in Charlie's Angels which Barrymore starred in and produced. During the build up to their wedding Green and Barrymore frequently joked with the media about when and where they were going to wed. The most notable incident came on November 18, 2000 when Green hosted Saturday Night Live. During the monologue, Green brought Barrymore on stage and teased the audience a ...

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Green roofs are used to: Provide amenity space for building users — in effect replacing a yard or patio Reduce heating (by adding mass and thermal resistance value) and cooling (by evaporative cooling) loads on a building — especially if it is glassed in so as to act as a terrarium and passive solar heat reservoir Reduce the urban heat island effect Increase roof life span Reduce storm water run off — see water-wise gardening Filter pollutants and CO2 out of the air — see brea ...

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Green roof, Green roof - Uses of green roofs, Green roof - Types of green roof, Green roof - Brown roofs, Green roof - Examples of extensive green roofs, Green roof - Green roofs in Egypt

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The Green Party of the United States and Greens/Green Party USA have no organizational connection but share a comman and difficult history. The G/GPUSA is not an electoral party, although some of its members participate in elections. The name "G/GPUSA" is said to have reflected a compromise or a synergy between Greens who emphasized the primacy of nonelectoral movement building, and those who sought to participate actively in elections. It has also been characterized as a power grab when the original Committees of Correspondence split and a small group registered the name without ...

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One holy grail of green economists is a theory of why humans see value in such commodities as gold, and why they habitually reward social and sexual fitness (i.e. appearances) strongly over ecological fitness (i.e. energy efficiency, survival) whenever they have the luxury to build complex financial systems. This parallels and opposes the ambition of neoclassical economics to find parallels in radically autonomous physics and chemistry - but the two views are complementary, and come together in such doctrines as Natural Capitalism, which seems to ...

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Green economics, Green economics - Green is non-neoclassical, Green economics - Tendencies and factions, Green economics - Life versus not, Green economics - Ecologies produce people create local is more reliable, Green economics - Small is beautiful, Green economics - Can green go global?, Green economics - Can green fight global?, Green economics - Biology versus buying, Green economics - Value of life, Green economics - Are humans infinitely precious?, Green economics - Influences and opponents

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From the Renaissance onwards, elaborate variations on the Green Man theme, often with animal heads rather than human faces, appear in many media other than carvings (including manuscripts, metalwork, bookplates, and stained glass), but by that time they seem to have been used for purely decorative effect rather than reflecting any deeply-held belief. In Britain, the image of the Green Man enjoyed a revival in the 19th century, becoming popular with architects during the Gothic revival and the "Arts and Crafts" era, when it appeared as a decorative motif in and on many buildings, both religious and ...

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Green Man, Green Man - An Introduction, Green Man - Types of Green Man, Green Man - Green Men in churches, Green Man - Later variations on the Green Man theme, Green Man - Related characters, Green Man - William Anderson's comments, Green Man - Green Men outside Europe, Green Man - Trivia

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