Entries from July 2008

Green Building

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Sustainability

What Is Green Building?

Through the practice of Green Building, architects, designers, developers and those in the field of construction attempt to erect buildings that use resources such as water, building materials like wood and energy, in as smart a way as possible. This means that the involved professionals attempt to reduce the overall impact of […]

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Sustainable Planning

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Sustainability

Easy Ways to Plan — Sustainable Style

Easy Ways to Go Green brings you a research guide of available materials on the topic of Sustainable Planning. Culled from articles all over the Internet, this ever-expanding universe of information is a one-stop guide for all things sustainable. Why waste the time finding the articles yourself, when we’ll […]

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Paper or Plastic: The Debate on Grocery Store Bags, Part 2/2

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Recycling

The Saga of the Grocery Store Plastic Bag
Some people overlook the fact that plastic, like other products with a petroleum base, comes from oil, which is drilled from the earth, piped or trucked and later refined. Some properties of oil are manipulated into five principal types of polymers, during the process by which plastic […]

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Yoga Pose: Tadasana (Mountain Pose)

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Yoga

Yoga Pose: Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
By Kerrie Cason

Tada = A Mountain
Asana = Posture
Description of Tadasana (Mountain Pose):
Tadasana is the foundation for all standing poses. At least one foot in every standing pose is in Tadasana. Everything builds from the ground up. When you stand firm and tall as a mountain, you can increase awareness of what’s […]

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Sustainable Real Estate Development Growing in India

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Sustainability

Sustainable Real Estate Development Catching Hold in New Delhi

NEW DELHI: It has been estimated recently that there are hundreds of millions of people, in fact, a billion plus people, currently living in India, according to the CIA’s World Fact Book. It is not a stretch to say that an idea like Sustainable Real Estate, were […]

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Lake Mead Goes Dry Within 13 Years

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Climate Issues

Will Lake Mead Evaporate By the Year 2021?

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have asserted that it is fifty per cent likely that Lake Mead will end up going completely dry within 13 years, or by the year 2021.
Lake Mead, which hedges the border between both Arizona and Nevada, […]

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