Ten
Shades of Green
From the Architectural League of New York, this small but lovely exhibition
has been up for a few years and still provides inspiration for green architecture.
Good set of links in the resources section. The site showcases ten sustainable
buildings in Europe.
Green
Buildings, US Dept of Energy
American government site on Green Building with links and resources.
Architecture
Week, Environment
A weekly architecture e-zine with lots of resources and links from the
US which features a couple of “Environment” stories. These
tend to be American case studies and are archived
Rocky
Mountains Institute
http:// www.rmi.org
The Rocky Mountain Institute is an unusual 'environmental' organisation
in that it has a strong entrepreneurial bent, however its market inclined
solutions can be too simplistic and are in danger of obscuring the complexities
of environmental problems. For example from their climate change page:
"Greenhouse-gas emissions are simply the by-product of the uneconomically
wasteful use of resources. The obvious solution, then, is increased efficiency."
What about hard road necessities, like demand reduction?
The Wilderness Society's
Timber Shop
http:// www.timbershop.wilderness.org.au
Bibliography on Sustainable
Architecture
http://aloha.net/~laumana/biblio.htm
GreenClips
http:// www.greendesign.net/greenclips/index.html
Green Clips is a very useful resources site which presents recent media
coverage of environmentally responsible design and related issues from
60 sources - but it is a selective summary.
Building Environmental Science
and Technology
http://www.nrg-builder.com/ .
ebuild.com
http://www.ebuild.com
Australian
Building Energy Council
http://www.abec.com.au
ABEC's brief is develop a code of practice for the improvement of the
environmental performance of Australian buildings. EDF has worked on a
couple of case studies for ABEC that are up on this site; the award winning
Thurgoona Campus at Charles Sturt University and Buxton Primary School.