Links

• Radio: The Everblue Story – “A New Mission” on NPR’s The Story
• Green McMansions are oxymoronic – WHERE you build matters more than HOW you build!
• The 100-dollar hamburger – Chandran Nair (Consumptionomics)
• Nestle wants to privatize the Earth’s water supplies
• Operation Free – Vets in favor of weaning us from our oil addiction.
• News report: Fareed Zakaria GPS – The Coming Water Wars
• Getting Personal – Six Personal Sustainability Myth-busters. (Caveat: Organic vegetables are best if purchased locally because they’re fresher, they’re less carbon intensive, and you’re helping your local economy.)
• TV: e2 design – the economics of being environmentally conscious (from PBS and Autodesk (downloads).
• Audio/Article: Van Jones’ Green Vision (14 min. interview)
• Radio: Food As A National Security Issue – 40 min. NPR interview with Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food”
• Research: Green Marketing To Women vs. Green Marketing to Men
• Environmental Working Group – The EWG team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know.
• How to talk to a climate change denier
• New York Times Green blog
• Ford Raptor vs. Leaf Blower  (emission controls!)

Books:

• Natural Capitalism – by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins (Chapter 1 – PDF)
• The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones
• Browse “The Green Collar Economy” here
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution– and How It Can Renew America by Tom Friedman

Articles:

• Ethical Companies Make More Money – “…to be ethical means to be profitable.”
• A Novel Tactic in Climate Fight Gains Some Traction – Repurposing the Montreal Protocol to fight Climate Change
• Natural Capitalism – 1997 article by environmental guru Paul Hawken
• GreenBiz 20 – The 20 Most Popular Stories of 2009
• Will Big Business Save the Earth?
• From the White House to the Green House – White House pursues LEED Certification.
• Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler – Factory farming responsible for resource depletion and GHGs.
• Math Lessons for Locavores
• Wired Magazine’s Incoherent Truths An excellent retort to the WIRED article.
• NYT My free and easy life
• When Our Brains Short-Circuit – A matter of fatal flaws
• Boiling the Frog – Time to wake up – We’re in hot water!
• How many food-miles are behind your piece of fish? American fish make a stop in China before arriving at the store.
• Sustainable Education Brands: How Learning Institutions Are Attracting Values-Driven Students

Video:

Documentaries:

• DIRT – The movie with Heart and Soil (Trailer)
• Full Film: Green – Documentary about deforestation for Palm Oil. (48 min. no dialogue).
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars  (trailer)
• Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution with Amory Lovins
• TED: Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy
• TED: Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia | Video on TED.com
• Design e2  The Green Apple 4 min.podcast / 25 min episode (direct link to segments below)
  • Driving to Skyscrapers – Density rules!
  • US buildings energy footprint / Oil dependency  
  • 4 Times Square (Durst)
  • Durst opens up to building smarter
  • 5 year payback – Why don’t more Americans do it?
  • Resource over-use
  • Ed Mazria (and USGBC) – Architecture 2030
  • Andrés Duany on Lean Urbanism – 16 min telephone interview
  • Tony Malkin – ESB – Johnson Controls Performance Contracting

• Stewart Brand: How Buildings Learn – What Happens After They’re Built (Google eBook)
  • 1 – “Flow”   (excerpt: poor planning, glass nightmares)
  • 2 – “The Low Road”
  • 3 – “Built for Change”
  • 4 – “Unreal Estate” (excerpt:the central thesis of urban planning)
  • 5 – “The Romance of Maintenance”
  • 6 – “Shearing Layers”
• More Stewart Brand: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto  (TED video)

• Building Efficiency Case Study: 
  • Poudre School District
  • San Francisco Federal Building
  • Starbucks
  • High Performance Building (18 min)

Trailers:

• The Cove
• Food, Inc. and here
• Forks Over Knives <- this film might convince you to give up meat
• Carbon Nation
• The Island President
• Gasland – Josh Fox  (The Fracking Song)
• Fuel
• So Right, So Smart (Ray Anderson)
• No Impact Man – Colin Beavan
• Waste Land – Jardim Gramacho
• The 11th Hour – narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
• The Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
• The Greening of Southie – Boston’s first residential green building (trailer)
  • Safety Briefing
  • Construction Waste

Other:

• Follow the Frog (Rainforest Alliance)
• No Impact Man – Colin Beavan
• Ford Raptor vs. Leaf Blower emissions
• “The Story of Bottled Water”  (Everblue’s take on the situation)
• The environmental costs of bottled water. (10 words in 39 seconds).
• TED: “What’s Wrong With Our Food System” by 11 yr. old Birke Baehr
• Benefits of a LEED certified home
• TED:  Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy.
• Green Building Guide

Cool Stuff:

• Bangalore Container building
• Leisha John – Top Sustainability Woman (Pink Magazine).
• Leisha – featured in Journal of Accountancy
• Article: How a Big Four Accounting Firm is going green
• Article: How a CPA turned LEED AP is greening one of the Big Four Accounting Firms – Leisha John, Americas Director of Environmental Sustainability at Ernst & Young
• Interview: Leisha John discusses business imperatives to reduce CO2 at World Climate Summit in Cancún.
• Video: The US Army’s Katherine Hammack, discusses the DOD’s sustainability imperatives.
• Legal: SUSTAINABLE MARKS – A blog about trademarks, patents, and advertising – from a green perspective
• Legal: Don’t talk too soon! – Potential legal implications of prematurely over-promising: “It’s LEED Certified!”
• Tony Malkin on Retrofitting the Empire State Building (ESB)
• Elizabeth Heider of Skanska USA offers a pragmatic view about the company’s decision to pursue LEED CI Platinum for their office fit-out in the Empire State Building.
• Mother Nature Network
• The Global Warming Archive (blog)
• Learn about MSC Seafood – eat sustanable seafood.
• Green Printing: AC Graphics, Florida’s’s first triple-certified green printer! (print on FSC  paper & veg.-based inks.)
• How to Remodel for a Green Home from Howdini.
• Straight Green: Alternative VOC Calculation for LEED
• How to build a Wind Farm – Amazing photos
• Make your own Rain Barrel
• CoC – Chain of Custody
• SRI ratings of various shades of concrete
• Global Cool Cities
• TED: White Roofs for Green Schools
• Roof Savings Calculator (RSC)
• Window Reflections Can Melt Vinyl Siding
• Bermuda requires rain water harvesting
• CD packaging revolution – Sustainable CD Packaging
• Dow Unveils Solar Shingles
• Roof Tiles Would Save Energy By Turning Color
• Environmental Groups Spar Over Certifications of Wood and Paper Products
• NPR’s Educational Carbon Cartoon
• Green domain host  Host Gator offsets 130% of power thru local wind- power RECs (more info.)
• EU Carbon Retirement (carbon calculator)
• Video: The Budapest Multiparker 730 (underground urban parking)
• The Green Workplace
• Freecycle – (achieve MR -c2 & MR-c3 on a personal level)
• Website: BIPV– Building Integrated Photovoltaics in South Florida!
• Article: 25 Green Myths – Debunked
• Video: Solar Highways
• White Zombie the Electric Drag-Racing Datsun
• Retrofit Depot
• Amazing Architectural Photos
• B-99 House in Gurgaon India by DADA Design
• Marina Bay Sands – Singapore
• Vaporizers – Get quality Vaporizers at the besst possible prices. Come browse our huge selection of products.
• Hybrids, meet your rival — it gets 376.59 mpg
• Going Green in Your Home – A comprehensive collection of tips for any homeowner

Uncool Stuff:

• America’s first climate refugees
• Article: Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label
• Blog Post: I am Human, I’m American, and I’m Addicted to Oil…
• Commentary: America Sits Out the Race (from Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle – Is Fiji Water greenwashing America?
• Mother Jones Responds to Fiji Water
• Article: Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat– Staggering statistics and an entertaining video. Plastic!

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch on Good Morning America
• The Birds of Midway – Photos by Chris Jordan
• Midway – Message from the Gyre  (Warning: Original message)
• Plastic State of Mind
• “The Story of Bottled Water”  (Everblue’s take on the situation)
• The environmental costs of bottled water. (10 words in 39 seconds).
• The World’s Largest Dump: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• There’s no “AWAY” for our plastic trash! – Capt. Charles Moore: The Ocean is Downhill from everywhere.
• Bag The Bag: Ed Norton’s 60 sec. look at the problem and  solution
• Video: Wake Up, Freak Out – Then Get a Grip. (Tipping Point Ahead!) One of the best  explanations of climate-change / global warming that I’ve seen. It takes a few minutes but it’s well done and explains many of the factors in a playful, animated, and at times, scary way.

 Fun Stuff:

• Follow The Frog
• Six Pack (cut the rings)
• The Love Toilet – Worth an Innovation in Design pt. under WE-c2?
• Polluter Harmony (So true, it’s really not that funny)
• Music Video: ASHRAE – License to Chill!
• Bohemian Rhapsody on String Theory style
• Music Video: SEAL  IT TIGHT
• Top Ten Green iPhone Apps
• The Majestic Plastic Bag – A Mockumentary
• Kermit: It’s Not Easy Being Green
• How I (almost) Saved The Earth – No one said it would be easy to build the greenest house on the block. Scott Adams on perplexing energy bills, ugly lawns and the true meaning of ‘green’

Miami:

• USGBCSF – USGBC South Florida chapter (Join. Become the change you want to see).
• Rich Jones – Miami’s first LEED Platinum House (5 min. video)
• David and Holly’s Tin Box in South Miami on NBC6 / SomiGreenhouse blog
• Victor and Mari’s LEED Gold Chael-Dover Cottage (Miaim’s first LEED certified home)
• 2020 Alton Road – LEED Platinum on Miami Beach scoring 120 points!
• ALL FSEC LEED Homes projects
• First LEED for Schools GOLD Certified high school in FL – TERRA Environmental Research Institute
• Miami-Dade Green
• City of Miami Office of Sustainable Initiatives
• Green Mobility Network
• Xeriscaped! – Turf is replaced with native/adapted vegetation. (Turf requires water, chemicals, and mowing.)