Restaurants here in San Francisco open, and close, almost as often as the fog rolls in so we don’t usually pay an extreme amount of our precious attention to another restaurant du jour. Mixt Greens recently opened but they don’t qualify for new kid on the block status nonetheless they do deserve green props. Thus […]
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Lettuce eat Green
Published by Keith April 18th, 2008 in Bamboo, FSC, Flyash, Green Building, Health, No VOC Paint and San Francisco. 0 CommentsY2E2 at Stanford University
Published by Keith March 7th, 2008 in Fly Ash Foundation, Flyash, Green Building, Green Savings, Solar panels and Structural Engineer. 0 CommentsIt is possible to learn something in school. It’s even more possible
to learn about sustainable building if you happen to be a student at
Stanford or walk through the campus. In another push toward collegiate
sustainability Stanford University proudly unveiled the Y2E2 (or for
those less technical the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and
Energy Building). Yes, the […]
Green Mission Corridor
Published by Keith April 30th, 2007 in Arterra, Fly Ash Foundation, Flyash, Foundations, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, LEED-NC, Mission Bay, No VOC Paint, Photovoltaic Panels, San Francisco, Solar panels, Water Recapture System and condos. 0 CommentsWith all the Green condo hoopla focusing on the Arterra in South Beach, it would be easy to overlook the Green Valencia corridor. On 22nd and Valencia, the Lorax guys have quietly erected a darker green building. The carbon imprint of this mixed use project should be much lower than the highly marketed Arterra. Don’t […]
Ashes to Ashes
Published by Keith September 16th, 2006 in CHPS, Coal, Environment, Flyash, Foundations, Green Building, Green Real Estate, Health, LEED-AP, Las Vegas, Portland Cement, Real Estate, Structural Engineer and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsNormally the thought of ash brings to mind volcano eruptions, funerals, and maybe religious holidays but for us and green builders it’s about flyash and foundations. So, when discussing the topic with one of San Francisco’s up and coming LEED-AP architects (Melanie Jacobson) she mentioned that the CHPS school they are building in the Sacramento area […]