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Source: Eurekalert
How can employers make office environments more conducive to productivity and employee happiness? Try adding some “green” to your office. Not greenbacks–green plants! A research study published in the February 2008 issue of HortScience offers employers and corporations some valuable advice for upping levels of employee satisfaction by introducing simple and inexpensive environmental changes.
No one can have failed to notice the shift in public perception of climate change in the past few months: the scientific debate, dangerously prolonged, is truly over. But this is not in itself a victory for those who are struggling to avert planetary disaster (as I’m sure most readers are well aware). Before there is anything to celebrate, we’ll ...
The Independent
Winnie Brimacombe-Nelissen may have a home dating back to 1598 but it is made from a building material that is enjoying a distinctly 21st-century revival: mud. Her six-bedroom farmhouse near Crediton in Devon is built from cob, a mud-based mix first used for construction in north Africa in the 11th century. Some 300 years later it had become the standard building material in the UK and remained so until industrialisation made manufacturing bricks cheap.
Greener Design
Italian communications agency Brandit and the School and Art Institute of Chicago have launched Elogico, an initiative that will explore and promote sustainable design approaches.
Environmental Leader
The number of sustainable buildings has soared in the past years and along with it, the market in green-building products and services has increased to more than $12 billion today from around $7 billion in 2005.
“Two Seattle architecture and design firms have been recognized by the American Institute of Architects with a “Show You’re Green” excellence award for work on affordable green housing.
Runberg Architecture Group received the award for its Denny Park Apartments, in Seattle, while Mithun was lauded for an urban community in north Portland, New Columbia.”
Students from the Western Washington University are designing and manufacturing unique and useful goods from waste as a way to raise awareness of what we throw away. These items can now be found at Seattle-based Goods for the Planet and the Seattle Art Museum’s gift shops.
EcoMedia Direct is a Toronto-based firm that implements public space recycling programs throughout cities around the world as a way to create environmental awareness and protection. At the beginning of this year, EcoMedia expanded its Street Art sponsorship program with the addition of 21 Canadian artists decorated SilverBox recycling bins in downtown Toronto.