Green Networking
- Eco-friendly, renewable Energy
This web site focuses on eco-friendly actions and includes "green" blogs and opinions on important topics such as renewable energy and sustainable construction
- The U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.
- The Ecological Building Network
According to their website, this organization promotes, fosters and catalyzes the transformation of building to favor intelligent design, clean energy, and healthy materials.
- American Institute of Steel Construction
Structural steel produced in the United States contains 93.3% recycled steel scrap. At the end of a building’s life, 98% of all structural steel is recycled back into new steel products with no loss of its physical properties. For more on how steel is being recycled to benefit sustainable construction efforts, please visit this site.
Articles & Information on Sustainable Resources
Scaling Down Ambitions on Renewable Energy Not Cost Effective
According to the Positive Energy report by WWF-UK, cutting back renewable energy ambitions is a step backwards and could cost us in the long term. This is contrary to KPMG's beliefs that scaling down renewable energy ambitions could save the economy £34 billion within the next ten years. WWF-UK tackles global environmental issues such as climate change and reducing the use of fossil fuels. Developed in 1961, one of their ambitions is to work with businesses, communities and politicians to promote the use of sustainable energy sources.
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Learning Solar Lessons from the Plant World
Cheap, free power from the sun is a great hope for the future, but the earth has had its own solar powered inhabitants for millions of years and scientists are trying to learn better ways to harvest the sun's energyr from photosynthesis in plants.
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Powered by alternatives: Lessons from Sweden
Kristianstad may be famous as the home town of the Absolute Vodka but now it has lessons in ecology that might help change our future with natural fuels. About 10 years ago, this Swedish town decided that they would reduce and gradually wean away from being solely dependent on fossil fuels. And now it looks like they have achieved what they set out to do and even more remarkably, done it without resorting to the usual wind and sun energy alternatives.
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