sustainable design

1. Metropolis magazine featured an article titled Jet Green in the September 2007 issue. It is talking about an airplane called Boeing 787 Dreamliner that just came out this summer. The article reads, "The carbon-fiber aircraft is 20 percent more fuel efficient and less carbon emitting than its mid size competitors."
2. Architectural Record featured and article titled "Green's the new school color at Harvard and Yale". Its said, "The university pledged that its new Allston Science Complex will emit no more than half the greenhouse gases of similar education and research facilities. " It is great how schools are allowing design firms to only build projects that are good for our environment.
3. Green Source magazine featured an article titled "Chicago, My Kind of Green". In the article, it said that there are 27 LEED-certified buildings in Chicago. This is more than almost all places in the country except Seattle, Oregon, and Portland. This is all because Chicago's mayor, Mayor Richard M. Daley wants to make “the greenest city in America.”
4. Interior Design magazine features many products that are eco-friendly. For example, they have a product called the Duralee Contract Eco-Fabrics which is explained that it "features 100 percent Eco Intelligent polyester, certified cradle-to-cradle Gold by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry."
5. Interiors Source has a chart in the magazine that is "a roadmap for finding products that have met one or more sustainable benchmarks to receive product certification as screened by a formidable team of sustainability experts." I think that is a good way of letting customers know how they can go green on their own.
6. Solar Today features an article titled "Pushing the Limits of Green" which pretty much explains, "Seven trends are introducing new efficacy into the practice of sustainable building. " Trend number 1 is Buildings Reduce Fossil Fuel Consumption, Trend number 2 isGreen Building Moves to the Mainstream, Trend number 3 is building Industry Emphasizes Energy Efficiency, Trend number 4 is LEED Places Higher value on renewable energy, trend number 5 is, Third party funding mechanisms emerge, trend number 6 is National Green Building Code Ahead, and Trend number 7 is Architects look beyond platinum.
7. Dwell magazine issues and article called "Going, Going, Green" and it is about a 29-year old eco-conscious builder, Traci Rose Rider, s a founding member and the current chairperson of Emerging Green Builders (EGB), a branch of the U.S. Green Building Council. "Etablished in 2002 with the goal of facilitating sustainable building opportunities for young people entering the industry, EGB has been hard at work ever since, nurturing the natural talents of promising designers."
8. Natural Home magazine features an article titled, "America's Best Eco-Neighborhood" and it names the top 10 best eco-neighborhood in the country. Believe it or not Asheville, North Carolina is ranked number one on this list.
9. Innovative Home magazine is all about using innovative and earth-friendly materials, using sustainable technology, building sustainable homes, giving green modifications and tips. Having a magazine like this is defiantly a plus because it lets it portray the right and healthy way of designing.
   
10. EcoIQ Magazine features many different types of articles concerning the environment. I came across this one called "Wind Power Capacity Jumps Almost One-Third in 2001". There are many different facts through out the article regarding the wind power. Some are... "In the United States, there is enough harnessable wind energy in just 3 of the 50 states - North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas - to satisfy the country's electricity needs." "An inexhaustible source of energy, wind offers us more energy than we can use." "In the United States, wind-generating capacity is growing by leaps and bounds." "Abundant, inexhaustible, and cheap, wind promises to become the foundation of the new energy economy."