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DMD Green Introduces SocialCycling Program for Difficult-to-Recycle Materials
The environmental and business management consultant's new process would, for example, repurpose difficult-to-recycle vinyl-coated fabrics and deliver them to workrooms in developing countries to be turned into backpacks for local school children.
Mannington Commerical Launches Greenbuild Forums and Webcasts
The flooring manufacturer created "Bring Greenbuild Local," an initiative that includes hosting local events in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. centered around the annual green expo taking place November 11-13.
Stark Debuts Paint Division With David Oliver
The New York-based to-the-trade manufacturer of carpet, fabric, furniture, and wallcovering has completed it's collaboration with the London-based designer on a 240-color paint collection.
National Office Furniture Adds New Product to Line of Eco-Friendly Casegoods
Adding to the industry?s selection of green casegoods, the manufacturer recently celebrated the indoor air quality certification of its veneer Casbah series.
Pugh + Scarpa Receive 2010 AIACC Firm Award
The Santa Monica-based architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning firm received the honor, the highest given by the American Institute of Architects California Council, for consistently producing distinguished architecture.
Southwest Airlines Introduces Green Plane
The Boeing 737-700 prototype will feature environmentally friendly interior elements, including InterfaceFLOR carpet, that will reduce weight, thus saving fuel and reducing emissions.
2010 Green Good Design Awards Call for Entries
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies are now accepting submissions that offer green design solutions by November 1, 2009.
Pratt Institute Outfits Brooklyn Condos
Alumni, faculty, and students of the Brooklyn-based art and design school completely furnished two model residence interiors in Rogers Marvel Architects' Third + Bond condominiums in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood.
Thom Mayne Floats An Idea for New Orleans
The Pritzker Prize-winning principal of Morphosis teamed with UCLA architecture and design students to create the first floating house approved in the United States for Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation.
Anshen+Allen Snag LEED Silver for Columbus Office
The international architecture firm was awarded the green certification from the USGBC for its interior renovation of a 1902 buggy factory for its Midwest office in Ohio.
What a Waist
Clothes made from discarded metal and plastic are probably not the most comfortable to wear, but these dresses definitely take repurposing to a new, rather chic level.
In Vino Veritas
For Madlab's LEED-accredited partner Petia Morozov, considering the environment is an ethical position. "It's about taking whatever's already in the waste stream and extending its life in a playful form," she explains. A prime example of that philosophy is Le Vigne, a New York wine shop designed by Madlab in collaboration with the artists' collective Spurse, of which she's also a part.
The Eco-Friendly Skies
Air travel comes with a notoriously hefty carbon footprint. But as obsolete aircraft are grounded, a few planes are atoning for their environmental sins through reinvention as furniture, surfacing, and even lodging. Something's in the air.
Clicks and Bricks
Houston builder Mark Johnson is well aware of a sobering truth: Most people can't afford world-class architecture at home. So the principal of Area 16 teamed up with architect Andrew McFarland of D>McF to launch Hometta, a Web-based collaborative that makes distinctive design accessible to the masses.
ASID and USGBC Announce Four New REGREEN Courses
The e-learning courses explore kitchen and bath remodeling, deep energy retrofits, and a tutorial of REGREEN Remodeling Guidelines.
Northeast Green Building & Design Show Next Week
Go Green Expo, the eco-focused, green-living showcase adds a new niche event to its 2009 cross-country tour.
Gensler and Turner Collaborate on SFO Renovation
The architecture firm and the international design-build contractor will complete a $383 million renovation and expansion of San Francisco International Airport's Terminal 2 in Fall 2011.
USGBC Launches Third National Green Schools Campaign
Coinciding with the start of the school year, the United States Green Building Council is teaming with 11 educational and environmental groups on the initiative, which aims to improve the indoor environmental quality of America's schools.
Shaw Releases Inaugural Sustainability Report
The report outlines the flooring manufacturer's environmental accomplishments and goals, including reclamation of more than 244 million pounds of post-consumer carpet.
United, They Sit
Gender and sexuality studies. Latino studies. American studies. Each sounds like an embattled militia in some academic guerilla war. However, those fields and several more peacefully coexist in New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis managed to accommodate all that diversity in a single 16,000-square-foot loft in Greenwich Village.
