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21st Century
Complete Guide to Energy Department Clean Cities Program
Alternative
Fuels Data Center, Vehicles, Clean Corridors, Vehicle Buyers Guides, Electric, Biodiesel,
Natural Gas, Propane Powered Cars (CD-ROM). |
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21st Century
Complete Guide to Alternative Fuels, Hybrid Cars, and Alternate Fuel Transportation
Battery and Fuel Cell Powered Cars and Vehicles, Climate Control and Emissions, Natural
Gas Vehicles and Success Stories, Department of Energy Renewable Energy Research and
National Renewable Energy Lab NREL (Two CD-ROM Superset) |
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A Case-based
Introduction to Alternative Energy Sources:
Hybrid & Fuel Cell Vehicles with R&D and Visually Attractive, Practical
Application. Examples Discussed by DaimlerChrysler, EPA, Ford, General Motors, Honda,
Toyota, The California Fuel Cell Partnership, and Others. |
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Alternative
Cars in the Twenty-First Century: A New Personal Transportation Paradigm
Arguing
that tinkering with the design of existing automobiles cannot reduce fuel consumption,
traffic congestion, and pollution fast enough to keep up with growing demand and shrinking
resources, Riley presents personal mobility solutions based on smaller cars, fuel economy,
hybrid cars, and three-wheeled vehicles. The second edition highlights recent developments
in intelligent transportation systems and fuel cell technology. |
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Alternative Fuels for Road Vehicles
The
outgrowth of a study commissioned by the UK Department of Transportation to investigate
the contribution of road vehicles to global warming. Reviews the benefits and
disadvantages of possible alternatives to petroleum as fuel for vehicles and compares
their health and environmental effects. |
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| Brownfields |
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Brownfields: A
Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property SECOND EDITION
The
second edition of this classic manual is a step-by-step, solution-oriented look at the
environmental and economic challenges of redeveloping contaminated property. This
comprehensive guide will help you: - Find new funding sources to finance your brownfield
redevelopment - Resolve the most important legal, business, financial, and political
issues associated with redeveloping contaminated real estate - Interpret federal and state
laws governing liability for the cleanup of brownfield sites - Evaluate current State
Voluntary Cleanup Programs including financial and tax incentives, eligible or excluded
properties, cleanup standards, and liability protections. |
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Brownfields
Redevelopment: Programs and Strategies for Contaminated Real Estate
Takes
a survey look at the varied programs available to developers, municipalities, non-profits
and environmental professionals. |
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Brownfields
Redevelopment: Selected References
No description available. |
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Brownfields
Redevelopment: A Guidebook for Local Governments and Communities
No description available. |
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Brownfields
Revitalization: A Complete Guide to Redevelopment
No description available. |
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Brownfield
Sites II: Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development
No description available. |
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Brownfields:
Cleaning and Reusing Contaminated Properties
Virtually
every city in the nation's older industrial regions, no matter its size, grapples with the
challenge of unused or abandoned manufacturing facilities and other industrial sites. This
study, sponsored by the Northeast-Midwest Institute, offers analysis and practical
guidance on how these blighted areas - brownfields - have been and can be brought back to
life. |
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Brownfields
Redevelopment: A Guidebook for Local Governments and Communities
The most practical, up-to-date guide
for turning Brownfields into Greenfields. This ready-to-use, how-to manual - edited by active developers who have bought, remediated, and
sold brownfields - gives you a commanding look at
one of today's leading environmental issues. Filled with the latest hands-on tools, Harold
and Robert Rafson's step-by-step book simplifies the task of removing the barriers to
redevelopment that plague environmentally distressed properties. |
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Extreme Sites -
The Greening of Brownfield
Tackling a hot green architectural
topic – brownfield sites – this title asks the essential question: how should
urban and post-industrial sites best be rehabilitated to balance ecological and human
needs?
This
issue of AD is devoted to what planners refer to as ‘brownfields’. These are
often sites made toxic through a recipe of urbanism and industry, from our
great water thoroughfares to our landfills. They are often the only sites available
to us for planning consideration. |
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Brownfields and Housing Development
No description available. |
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Greening of
Pentagon Brownfields: Using Environmental Discourse to Redevelop Former Military Bases
No description available. |
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Recycling Land:
Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development
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Redeveloping
Brownfields: Landscape Architects, Site Planners, Developers
Site
designer's brownfields remediation bible.
Packed
with problem-solving strategies and procedures, this is an action manual for landscape
architects, site planners, and developers involved with brownfield reclamation. All areas
relevant to site design professionals are fully covered, from the critical legal
environment and risk issues to stormwater management solutions. Get sound advice on plants
and construction details that meet the challenges of brownfield sites...post-design issues
such as working with contractors and environmental professionals...special staff
training...liability insurance... and much more. |
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Turning
Brownfields into Greenbacks: Developing and Financing Environment
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| Environmental - General |
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Environmental
Ethics: An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy
The
text serves as an introduction to ethical theory as it applies to environmental issues and
as a casebook on contemporary problems of science, industry, and individual
decision-making. It provides a readable, yet philosophically careful survey of the field
of environmental ethics. It is comprehensive, covering topics from the relevance of
Aristotle's ethics for environmental issues to Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism. |
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The
Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, Economics
Consisting of an
assortment of landmark essays and the best in contemporary scholarship, this anthology
delves deeply into the most pressing environmental issues of our times. Articles included
in this anthology are distinguished for their relevance to real-life policy making and for
their ability to promote rich and lively discussion about controversial matters. In
addition, the editors' careful organization of the topics and illuminating section
previews keep students focused on the most essential points of current environmental
debates. |
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Environmental
Management: Readings and Cases
Unique
in its integration of cases and readings, this text seeks to increase environmental
awareness, sensitivity, and literacy in students. This collection of readings and cases
can be used as a supplement or a primary text and is perfect for business, government and
society, ethics, strategic management, and industrial ecology courses. |
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Environmental
Issues: Measuring, Analyzing, Evaluating (2nd Edition)
This
textbook examines 27 issues currently critical to the global environment in the areas of
population and migration, consumption and quality of life, energy use and conservation,
pollution and climate change, the hydrosphere, and environmental health. The second
edition adds a section on using math in the environmental sciences.Book News, Inc.®,
Portland, OR |
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Environmental
Science: Toward a Sustainable Future (8th Edition)
Known
for its currency and readability, this book focuses on enabling readers to critically
evaluate the latest environmental issues and to apply that understanding to situations and
events in their everyday lives. It explores the interactions of humans within the natural
environment and probes issues thoroughly examining their scientific basis, their history,
and society's response. The authors discuss sustainable development and public policy in
terms of how they shape the present and future. Topics covered include ecosystems and how
they work; the human population; renewable resources; energy; pollution and prevention;
and more. For anyone interested in environmental science, environmental studies, and
environmental biology. |
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The
Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (History of American Thought and
Culture)
From
Publishers Weekly:
For
more than two centuries, the rights of people were the predominant concern of
intellectuals and reformers; in recent years, nature has been granted an ethical status
equal to that of people, in what may be the most dramatic expansion of morality in the
history of human thought, says Nash ( Wilderness and the American Mind ). He traces the
origin of environmental ethics and follows the new perspectives on nature through
the writings of Aldo Leopold, Rene Dubos and others. Natural-rights philosophy is simply
the old American ideal of liberty applied to nature, he argues, placing environmental
ethics at the forefront of liberal thought in the 20th century. Illustrations. |
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| Environmental Engineering,
Technology and Design |
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Big
and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
Big and Green is the first book to examine
the sustainable skyscraper, its history, the technologies that make it possible, and its
role in the future of urban development.
The book examines more than 40 of the most
important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in
New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion
from Expo 2000 in Hanover-with project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings.
Interviews with such leaders in the field as Sir Richard Rogers, William McDonough, and
Kenneth Yeang are also included. |
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Biomimicry:
Innovation Inspired by Nature (hardcover)
No description available. |
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Civil Engineering:
(Nature Conservation and Land Reclamation) World of Environmental Design
Exploring the controversial relationship of engineering, architecture, and
landscaping, this volume surveys a series of extraordinarily interesting projects produced
in various parts of the world. 515 color illustrations. |
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Construction
Ecology: Nature as a Basis for Green Buildings
As designers of built
environments focus increasingly on green and sustainable construction they will be able to
learn much from the field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology provides a sound means
of systemizing the various ideas which come under the banner of os sustainable
construction. |
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Design for
Human Ecosystems: Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources
No description available. |
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Design with
Nature
With
a distinct emphasis on human cooperation and biological partnership in design, the author
explores the relationship between the built environment and nature to illustrate how both
can be used to their full potential without being detrimental or destructive to each
other. Provides a combination of scientific insight and constructive design. |
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Ecological
Design
A
vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as
the basis for design. Ecological design intelligence - effective adaptation to and
integration with nature's processes - can be applied at all levels of scale, creating
revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, cities, and technologies. |
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Environmental
Biotechnology: Principles and Applications
The authors connect the many
different facets of environmental biotechnology. The book develops the basic concepts and
quantitative tools in the first six chapters, which comprise the principles. The text
consistently calls upon those principles as it describes the applications in Chapters 7
through 16. The theme is that all microbiological processes behave in ways that are
understandable, predictable, and unified. At the same time, each application has its own
special features that must be understood. The special features do not overturn or sidestep
the common principles. Instead, they complement the principles and are most profitably
understood in light of the principles. |
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Environmental
Management: Readings and Cases
Unique in its integration of cases and
readings, this text seeks to increase environmental awareness, sensitivity, and literacy
in students. This collection of readings and cases can be used as a supplement or a
primary text and is perfect for business, government and society, ethics, strategic
management, and industrial ecology courses. |
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Environmental
Science: Toward A Sustainable Future (8th Edition)
Known
for its currency and readability, this book focuses on enabling readers to critically
evaluate the latest environmental issues and to apply that understanding to situations and
events in their everyday lives. It explores the interactions of humans within the natural
environment and probes issues thoroughly examining their scientific basis, their history,
and society's response. The authors discuss sustainable development and public policy in
terms of how they shape the present and future. Topics covered include ecosystems and how
they work; the human population; renewable resources; energy; pollution and prevention;
and more. For anyone interested in environmental science, environmental studies, and
environmental biology. |
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Environmental
Requirements for Electromechanical and Electrical Equipment
The
definitive reference containing all of the background guidance, typical ranges, details of
recommended test specifications, case studies and regulations covering the environmental
requirements on designers and manufacturers of electrical and electromechanical equipment
worldwide. |
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Evolutionary
Architecture: Nature as a Basis for Design
Looking
to nature as the source of some of the strongest and most efficient structural forms known
to mankind, Eugene Tsui’s evolutionary architecture offers stunningly original
alternatives to the uninspired cut-and-butt, post-and-beam constructions that dominate our
architectural landscape today. This extraordinary book uncovers the guiding principles
behind Tsui’s evolutionary approach to explore the many design lessons that can be
learned from nature and share the impressive results of their application to architectural
projects. |
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From Eco-Cities
to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design
No description available. |
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Green
Architecture
James Wines puts up the various - and often
irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making
a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also
tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. |
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Healing
Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well Being
This
book is presented as a way to get to know ourselves and evaluate our environments, as well
as to teach us how the components of color, sound, temperature, light, arrangement and
texture can be cultivated to create a healthier and more fufilling existence. |
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New Organic
Architecture: The Breaking Wave
A
manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the
environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of
inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to
be met. Today there is a response to a new age of information and ecology; architects are
seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the natural environment. In the
first part of his book, David Pearson provides a history and assessment of organic
architecture. The second part comprises statements from thirty architects from around the
world whose work is based on natural or curvilinear forms rather than the straight-line
geometrics of modernism. Each statement is accompanied by full-color illustrations of one
or several of the architects' built projects. |
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Phytoremediation
of Toxic Metals: Using Plants to Clean Up the Environment
With
current cleanup methodologies offering no real solution to the serious environmental
implications of toxic metal contamination, there is a growing need among remediation
professionals for effective, affordable, nonpolluting alternatives to energy-intensive
engineering processes. This book presents one such promising alternative-the extraordinary
new technology of phytoremediation.
Surveys worldwide pioneering efforts in the
use of plants to treat contamination of such metals as lead, cadmium, chromium, and even
radionuclides. |
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Places of the
Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design As a Healing Art
"...one of the seminal
architecture books of recent times."
- Professor Tom Wooley, Architects Journal |
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Regenerative
Design for Sustainable Development
The Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
Offers practical, realistic methods for reversing the effects of environmental catastrophe
caused by industry. It defines regenerative design, and describes practical applications
to the essential systems of land development: energy flow, water flow, agriculture and
land use, and building design. |
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Site Planning – 3rd
Edition
This
new edition of Kevin Lynch's widely used introductory textbook has been completely
revised, and is also enriched by the experience of Lynch's coauthor, Gary Hack. For over
two decades, Site Planning has remained the only comprehensive source of information on
all the principal activities and concerns of arranging the outdoor physical environment. |
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Sustainable
Architecture White Papers
Short papers on many different topics concerning
green building, sustainable design, and renewable energy. Top experts in the field offer
advice, experience, and resources. |
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Wind Power,
Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
In the wake of mass
blackouts and energy crises, wind power remains a largely untapped resource of renewable
energy. It is a booming worldwide industry whose technology, under the collective wing of
aficionados like author Paul Gipe, is coming of age. Wind Power guides us through the
emergent, sometimes daunting discourse on wind technology, giving frank explanations of
how to use wind technology wisely and sound advice on how to avoid common mistakes. |
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| Green Buildings |
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Big and Green:
Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
Big and Green is the first book to examine
the sustainable skyscraper, its history, the technologies that make it possible, and its
role in the future of urban development.
The book examines more than 40 of the most
important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in
New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion
from Expo 2000 in Hanover-with project descriptions, photographs, and detailed drawings.
Interviews with such leaders in the field as Sir Richard Rogers, William McDonough, and
Kenneth Yeang are also included. |
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Construction
Ecology: Nature as a Basis for Green Buildings
As designers of built
environments focus increasingly on green and sustainable construction they will be able to
learn much from the field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology provides a sound means
of systemizing the various ideas which come under the banner of os sustainable
construction. |
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Green
Architecture
James Wines puts up the various - and often
irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making
a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also
tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. |
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Green
Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating
The essential guide to
estimating, designing and building sustainable construction.
The demand for green, or
sustainable, building is growing rapidly, as municipalities, government and private owners
are now requiring energy efficiencies—and as owners discover that a healthy,
resource-efficient building more than pays for itself in dramatically reduced energy costs
and better health and productivity.
Green Building involves energy- and
resource-saving strategies, such as low-E windows, reflective roofing, solar technologies
and efficient HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems. Green building also means using
healthy, recycled and renewable materials like certified lumber, low-VOC finishes and
natural fibers – along with practices such as xeriscaping and daylighting.
This book gives you the whole picture,
with the information you need to:
Identify, compare, and specify green materials and systems.
Learn about LEED, Energy Star and other recognized rating systems.
Take advantage of financial incentives and funding resources.
Determine the cost of green products, and calculate energy savings and payback periods.
The book also features a Green
Building Cost Data section, with over 120 pages of cost data on sustainable materials and
systems, which includes many new products and materials, their primary green attributes,
and installed cost. Plus 8 Case Studies that demonstrate the challenges, costs, and
rewards of notable green building projects. |
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Green Building
Handbook: A Companion Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment
This new handbook provides a
detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products,
Invaluable for the speifier, this handbook will be useful to all interested in finding
greener ways of designing and building. |
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Green Building
Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification
The ultimate user's manual to green
building materials — for building design that reuses our past and reimagines our
future.
When
it comes to selecting and specifying green building materials, architects need more than
innate design sense. They need real-world advice on how to select and use nontoxic,
recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate them into the design process to
capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green" —
from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance
and safeguarding against liability claims. |
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Green
Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate
Environmentally responsible real estate development makes dollars and sense. Green
Development describes an exciting new field in which environmental considerations are
viewed as opportunities to create fundamentally better buildings and communities--more
comfortable, more efficient, more appealing, and ultimately more profitable.
If you're a developer, architect,
planner, contractor, lender, or city official, this book speaks your language. Every stage
of the development process is examined in detail: market research, site planning, design,
approvals, financing, construction, marketing, and occupancy. Also included are lists of
project statistics and contacts, books and other information sources, and development
strategies. |
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The Green
Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings
The ecological design of large buildings (whether we like these buildings
or not) is just as vital as the ecological design of the smaller building types — in
fact more crucial, because of their scale and volume of consumption of energy and
materials. |
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Keeping Buildings
Healthy
A
complete prevention and planning guide for professionals concerned with building-related
illness.
The dramatic increase in claims of illness related to building conditions has created an
urgent need for information and advice on all aspects of this complicated topic. Keeping
Buildings Healthy tells professionals what they must know in order to identify, evaluate,
and resolve the complex issues presented by building-related illness effectively. Suitable
for both manufacturing and clerical environments, it offers legal, medical, behavioral,
industrial hygiene, and engineering expertise found in no other single publication. |
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The New
Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options
No description available. |
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Sustainable
Architecture: The Green Buildings of Nikken Sekkei
Looks
at particular building environments within Japan and the challenges of climate and site
that required the architects of Nikken Sekkei to create certain design solutions across a
spectrum of major building projects. Contains a section concerning the results of research
into analytical methods and the technologies used in the design of sustainable buildings. |
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Sustainable
Architecture White Papers
Short
papers on many different topics concerning green building, sustainable design, and
renewable energy. Top experts in the field offer advice, experience, and resources. |
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| High
Performance Buildings |
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| Indoor Air Quality |
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Indoor Air
Quality (Indoor Environment Technicians Library)
Learn how duct systems can spread
contaminants and why outside air intakes are important. You need to know how airflow
affects a space and how the occupants' attitudes can make an HVAC system seem bad. IAQ is
important to any HVAC worker. |
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Indoor Air
Quality and HVAC Systems
A practical guide for understanding
the relationship between the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of HVAC
systems and achieving indoor air quality (IAQ). The book describes the individual
components of HVAC systems and the role each plays in maintaining good indoor air quality.
It also identifies the techniques available for evaluating the performance characteristics
of ventilation systems (including the use of carbon dioxide monitors and sulfur
hexafluoride tracer testing equipment). Other topics discussed include the determination
of pathways of air movement through buildings and understanding pressure relationships,
ventilation effectiveness, and efficiency. The book concludes with an overview of sources
of air contaminants to be concerned about when performing an IAQ evaluation. Indoor Air
Quality and HVAC Systems provides critical information for industrial hygienists, HVAC
contractors and engineers, and building owners and managers. |
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Indoor
Air Quality Handbook
This handbook brings you solutions to virtually any problem in the
field. Leading U.S. and international experts help you to create and maintain safe and
healthy environments in structures from hospitals to residences, and handle a range of
questions from health and comfort effects and physiologic thresholds to ventilation
measurement and employee programs. For answers on instrumentation, contaminants, codes,
and guidelines--for the solutions you need to assess, design, and maintain healthy and
productive indoor environments, Indoor Air Quality Handbook is the one source to have. |
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| Pollution Prevention |
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Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control,
First Edition
Provides
a bridge for today's environmental manager by focusing on an integrated approach to
controlling air pollution. Uniquely combines prevention and control concepts while
covering the practices and technologies. |
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Industrial
Pollution Prevention Handbook
Why
conduct expensive clean ups when you can drastically reduce pollutants by improving
management, boosting efficiency, eliminating toxins from your production process, or
modifying product design? Author Harry Freeman of the EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering
Lab, gives you a step-by-step pollution prevention (P2) program in this guide, plus case
histories that show how to implement it in 16 different industries. |
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Moving
Beyond Environmental Compliance: A Handbook for Integrating Pollution Prevention with ISO
14000
Combines the best
aspects of pollution prevention, Total Quality Management, and ISO 14,000, into a
comprehensive how-to handbook for achieving environmental compliance. Includes pollution
prevention questions and answers that readers can apply to their businesses. DLC: ISO
14000 series. |
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Pollution
Prevention: Fundamentals and Practice
The objective of this
book is to introduce principles of environmentally conscious products, processes, and
manufacturing systems. The reader will learn the impacts of waste from manufacturing and
post-use product disposal, environmental cycles of materials, and principles of
environmental economics. |
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Pollution
Prevention: The Waste Management Approach to the 21st Century
Provides the basic
principles required for understanding pollution prevention and waste control. Features
included technical aspects of pollution prevention, discussion on engineering methods for
source reduction, coverage of reduction and elimination of waste streams, and explores
waste management through energy conservation. DLC: Pollution prevention - Case studies. |
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Pollution
Prevention Economics: Financial Impacts on Business and Industry
Environmental managers often find it difficult to assess investments in pollution
prevention programs or equipment. This book provides basic economic and accounting
principles to sharpen the skills that both small and large businesses can use to evaluate
and financially justify investment in pollution prevention. Extensive use is made of
current environmental issues through examples and case studies to illustrate and explain
how economics impact the bottom life. 37 illustrations. |
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| Scrap Tires |
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| Sustainability |
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Eco-Economy:
Building an Economy for the Earth
Lester Brown, "the guru of the
global environmental movement" (The Telegraph of Calcutta), argues that, like
the Sumerian and Mayan civilizations, our economy is fast destroying its environmental
support systems, threatening future generations. The challenge is to restructure the
global economy, replacing our fossil fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy
with a new one that is environmentally sustainable. Brown outlines his vision of the new
economy. |
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Ecologically
Based Municipal Land Use Planning
The solution to the urban sprawl
that seems somehow to thwart the efforts and values of communities across the
industrialized world is not to be found in more legislation, rules, and regulation, says
Honachefsky, but in local communities and how they develop their municipal master plans.
His strategies include restoring the municipal master plan as the dominant planning
document, incorporating recent scientific research studies, applying geographic
information systems, and designating the protection of the community's ecological
infrastructure as the premier priority.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR |
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The Ecology of
Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Paul Hawken, the entrepreneur behind
the Smith & Hawken gardening supplies empire, is no ordinary capitalist. Drawing as
much on Baba Ram Dass and Vaclav Havel as he does on Peter Drucker and WalMart for his
case studies, Hawken is on a one-man crusade to reform our economic system by demanding
that First World businesses reduce their consumption of energy and resources by 80 percent
in the next 50 years. |
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The HOK
Guidebook to Sustainable Design
A real-world DESIGN tool for
sustainable design. In this comprehensive guide, the world's largest
architectural/engineering design firm helps architects, engineers, planners, interior
designers, and landscape architects integrate sustainable design strategies into their
work. Featuring twenty-four case studies of a variety of international HOK projects, it
shows how, far from being an all-or-nothing proposition, sustainable design thinking can
improve projects within the conventional constraints of budget, schedule, and market
demand. It provides practical guidelines that enhance real projects, including urban
planning, site design, buildings, interiors, and renovations. |
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The Key to Sustainable Cities : Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community
Systems
Most of the world’s population now live
in cities, but despite wide agreement on the core values of sustainable societies,
municipalities are so busy solving current problems, they don’t have the time or
resources to plan effective action for sustainability.
The Key to Sustainable Cities uses the principles of system
dynamics to demonstrate how today’s problems were yesterday’s solutions. The
book points to a new approach to city planning that builds on assets as a starting point
for cities to develop healthy social, governance, economic, and environmental systems.
Gwendolyn Hallsmith has worked to build sustainable communities for
over twenty years as a municipal manager, a regional planning director, and with the
Institute for Sustainable Communities. She lives in Marshfield, Vermont. |
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Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for
Business, Government and Civil Society
Although an
increasing number of organisations have embraced the idea of sustainability in the last
decade, why do so many initiatives fail, leading to wasted resources, frustration and
cynicism? Why have so few organisations successfully adopted more sustainable policies or
practices? And when they do get launched, why do so many efforts plateau after a short
time and fail to ascend to the next level of excellence? What process is required to
create change within organisations to move them towards sustainability?
Because so few resources are available to answer these
questions, Bob Doppelt spent three years researching how the leaders of both private and
public organisations that have initiated and sustained significant sustainability
programmes designed and approached them. His findings, presented in this hugely readable
book, will demystify the sustainability-change process by providing a theoretical
framework and a methodology that managers can use to successfully transform their
organisations to embrace sustainable development. |
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Learning by Design: Building Sustainable Organizations
(Management,
Organizations, and Business Series)
No description available. |
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