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AIA Environmental Resource Guide (ERG): The American Institute of Architects, 1735 New York Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20006, 202-625-7515. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., One Wiley Drive, Somerset, NJ 08875, 800-255-5945. $195. The latest full edition is 1996, with annual supplements ($75). A database regarding architecture and its effect upon the environment. It helps architects make environmentally informed decisions based on its project reports, in which exemplary buildings are profiled; its application reports, in which alternate materials are compared from an environmental standpoint; and its material reports, which provide detailed environmental profiles for selected building materials on a generic basis. Environmental Building News, 28 Birge Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301; 802-257-7300; Fax 802-257-7304; E-mail ebn@ebuild.com; Website www.buildinggreen.com; $67 per year or $127 per year for companies with more than 25 employees. Published ten times per year, with an annual index. The December '97 issue contains an extensive green bibliography and list of Internet resources, as well as a 1997 index to EBN. Their E-Build Library on CD-ROM contains all issues from July '92 through December '97, plus a product directory and bibliography. The web site contains back issues with product reviews, events calendar, current issue page, and links to other green sites. EBN publishes a product catalog modeled on Sweets, and is co-host (with CREST and IRIS) of an E-Mail green-building discussion group, to which you can subscribe free by sending a message (subject: "subscribe greenbuilding") to majordomo@crest.org. Green Building Resource Guide John Hermannsson, AIA, The Taunton Press, Inc., Newtown, CT, 1997. $37.95. A guide to green-product information whose focus is unheroic residential-construction products and materials, rather than higher profile heroic products such as solar or photovoltaic panels. The guide is accessed in three ways: construction-division section numbers, product index, and manufacturers index. It includes a Price Index Number for each product that shows cost relative to commonly available conventional products. |
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| Green Seal 1730 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036-3101; 202-588-8400. An independent, non-profit organization that publishes Choose Green Reports paid for by grants from U.S. EPA's Energy Star Homes Program and that awards seals of approval to green products. Recent reports include ones on lighting, hot-water heaters, and Breathable Homes (residential sealants and ventilation systems). Visit them at www.greenseal.org. | ||
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U.S. Department of Energy maintains a couple of useful web sites: www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/has material on DOE's energy-efficiency and sustainability programs, plus software listings; www.sustainable.doe.gov/ is a networking hub for sustainability initiatives, including the entire Sustainable Building Technical Manual for downloading. U.S. Green Building Council 1615 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-778-0760; Fax 202-463-0678; or 290 Alhambra #11, San Francisco, CA 94123; 415-543-3001; Fax 415-957- 5890, E-mail: info@usgbc.org; Web site:www.usgbc.org. USGBC bills itself as the building industry's only balanced non-profit consensus coalition promoting the understanding, development, and accelerated implementation of green building policies, programs, technologies, standards, and design practices. Its web site contains membership information, links to other green sites, and the text of USGBC's proposed LEED Building certification system. |
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