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<title>176 Battery Street Project</title>
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        Ocean Arks has developed Living Machines which is a way to clean and purify waste water. Living Machines can be used in schools, slauterhouses and many other applications. It purifies the water naturally with the use of plants. This project in Burlington features the use of Living Machines.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/7109">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-12-30 19:50:09.112728+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies</title>
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        The Lewis Center is fundamentally a place of wonder and beauty that seeks to celebrate and to regenerate human and natural environments, aspiring to be as bountiful and effective as a tree. By reconsidering design assumptions for the future, the building seeks to reverse the tragic (if unintended) consequences of the first Industrial Revolution. The Center operates on three fundamental principles of nature. waste equals food, use current solar income, and respect diversity. An integrated approach to natural energy flows will allow the Center to evolve into a net-energy exporter. Just as the building's materials promote long-term human and ecological health, the vibrant atrium at the building's core enriches the social character of the place, functioning as the town hall for Oberlin's southern campus.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/7110">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-12-30 20:17:11.137212+00:00</dc:date>
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        Our new office?<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1696">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-09-25 23:28:37+00:00</dc:date>
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        The completed home features passive solar heating and cooling, daylighting, low-e windows, and a well insulated and air tight envelope. All the appliances are energy efficient and the lighting is all energy efficient florescent. Many of the construction materials are recycled or reused including maple flooring reused from an old gym floor, reused interior wood doors, reused brick floor, cellulose insulation from recycled newspaper, floor tile from recycled auto glass, carpet from recycled plastic bottles and reused lumber.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/7107">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-12-30 19:31:28.024804+00:00</dc:date>
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        Winner of the 2002 AIA Top Ten Green Projects. His design benefits from daylighting, and only uses high-efficiency flourescent lighting 1/4 of its occupied time.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/31516">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-07 11:38:26.535887+00:00</dc:date>
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        This is library location is a green building. Here is what their website say: Hillsdale Library was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) Gold certification in 2004. LEED™ is a national rating system and accreditation tool used to develop high performance, sustainable buildings. Buildings are awarded points and achieve a certain level of certification based on project procedures and design elements that are indicators of a "green building." The library, opened in March 2004, was the first Multnomah County building to receive LEED™ certification, a goal established by Multnomah County officials when they approved the construction of the building. The City of Portland has adopted LEED™ as the basis of design for all of its new construction.

As a green building, Hillsdale Library offers many benefits, including: environmental protection (reduced air and water pollution, reduction in solid waste creation, and minimized depletion of natural resources); economic advantages (reduced operating costs and optimized economic performance over the life of the building); and health and safety benefits (better indoor air quality, decreased harmful pollutants indoors and out, and increased personal satisfaction). 

To achieve LEED™ certification, Hillsdale Library incorporates many environmental design elements that significantly reduce or eliminate the building's negative impact on the environment, while providing an inviting, friendly and comfortable place for library users of all ages. 
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<dc:date>2006-02-06 17:59:56.389585+00:00</dc:date>
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        What an awesome building. When it gets sunny I want to go have lunch on their rooftop. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37884">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-05 09:06:51.177859+00:00</dc:date>
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        Campus building for labs, classrooms, offices and a library. Used 125,000+ boardfeet of FSC-certified wood, native to Vermont. Cost of FSC-certified wood products estimated to be 3% greater than conventional wood. The Great Hall—the building’s “hearth”—features the largest window in the state of Vermont, with a view of the Adirondack Mountains of New York to the west.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/31518">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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