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Climate Change and Preservation: Where Do They Intersect?

By Stephanie Meeks / On October 5th, 2016
Summertime brings picnics, baseball games, family vacations, and, increasingly, record-busting temperatures. Each of the 10 hottest years on record has happened since 1998, including the hottest of all, 2014. As a preservation community, we are starting to grapple with the effects of this changing climate in very concrete ways.
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A Better Standard of Better Design

By Lance Hosey / On May 29th, 2013
Design, declared Nobel economist Herbert Simon, means "changing existing situations into better ones." Wonderful, but who decides what's "better"?
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#ForewordFriday Stewardship of the Built Environment

By Admin / On August 10th, 2012
When we think of green building, we tend to picture new construction. But Robert A. Young argues that the greenest building is often the one that has already been built. Jump into this week's #forewordFriday for a much-overlooked aspect of sustainable green building.  
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From Carton to Carpet: Recycled Homes

By Avi Friedman / On March 8th, 2012
North Americans are doing their fair share in reducing the millions of tons of domestic garbage that the country generates.  Each week they carefully sort their own waste and place it in a box near the curb for a pickup.  When the program began, some argued that recycling is no more than fancy garbage collection.  They were wrong.  Not only has recycling eased the pressure on our landfills, recycled products became the prime component in many construction products.

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