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How resilience will shape the future of building designBy Molly Miller
Hurricanes, flooding droughts, wildfires, landslides and terrorism. These are the issues we’ll be addressing next in green design — if you buy into the theory that the U.S. Green Building Council’s ubiquitous LEED program helps predict future trends. Past LEED pilot credits have revealed issues we’ve neglected, such as water, transit, acoustics, ergonomics and lighting pollution. |
Solar gives Fresno union apprentices a foot
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Power to the apesBy Molly Miler
Like many Americans, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Moore, recently made his way to the summer blockbuster film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. As he reflected on the film in the National Review Online, he was struck by the role energy played in the plot. “I wonder how many Americans got the subtle message here: Energy is the master resource,” he asks. “Without it, we return to a Stone Age existence. Life in its absence is nasty, brutish and short.” |