Recycling facility, green industrial park planned for Jackson Twp.
ThisWeekNews
The deal will not affect residential curbside recycling in Franklin County. About 60 percent of landfill waste comes from businesses. Under terms of the contract, SWACO can increase the amount of waste Gemini receives, leaving the potential for larger …

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Portland's Skylab Architecture sees green potential in prefab
Sustainable Business Oregon
We also started to see a lot of potential in multifamily, hotel and retail and office buildings, beyond the single-family residential product we were hired to design. So we proposed to Method that we nullify our work agreement and start a new company …

New Changes in the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard Approved by ANSI
Realty Today
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), recently announced that the new alterations in the ICC National Green Building Standard have been given the green signal by The American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ICC … This standard is …

Vermont Tech students developing energy efficient home
vtdigger.org
January 10, 2013 – Over the past several months Vermont Tech's Low Impact Design/Build Initiative (LIDI) has worked to develop a design for an energy efficient, low impact home that is practical for a Vermont family. … One of the five Vermont State …

ANSI Approves Next Generation of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard
National Association of Home Builders (press release)
January 11, 2013 – The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the International Code Council (ICC) applaud the recent approval of the 2012 ICC 700 National Green Building Standard™. In 2007, NAHB and the ICC partnered to establish a …