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USGBC News Letter - 3rd Quarter Issue

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- The Path of Sunlight

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- Natural Building

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- Elavated CO2 Levels

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- Consuming Energy

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- Indoor Air Quality

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- Straw Bail Construction

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- Building a Green Home

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12/10 - What is Grey Water?

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12/8 - Enviromental Performance

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12/5 - Why Clean Green?

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12/3 - Buildings & Waste

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12/1 - How using Soil can Filter Water?

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11/28 - Why be a member of the USGBC - Detroit Regional Chapter?

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11/26 - Construction on the Environment

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11/24 - Why Care about being Green?

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11/21 - Rapidly Renewable Materials

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11/17 - Green Insulation

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11/14 - What makes your home Green?

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11/10 - Building Green

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10/22 - US Conference on Peak Oil & Community Solutions

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10/20 - Understanding LEED project Costs & Returns

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10/17 - What is Building Commissioning?

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10/15 - Its Easy to Conserve Water

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10/13 - Getting our Energy from the Sun

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10/11 - Lighting Controls

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10/8 - Solar Decathlon

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10/6 - Changing Trash to Cash

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10/1 - Green Building Education

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9/29 - Michigan Homebuilders Go Green - Building technology from the Home Building Show

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9/24 - What are some ways to decrease a building�s energy demand?

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9/22 - What are Low Emitting Paints and Coatings?

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9/17 - Sustainability Touches Us All

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9/15 - Can Daylighting in schools make a difference in learning?

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9/12 - What are Geo Thermal systems?

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9/10 - Spotlight on LEED project - Albion Science Complex

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9/3 - Dust off that old Bicycle

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9/1 - Understanding Human Comfort Level

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8/29 - Emerging Green Builders

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8/27 - LEED for Schools

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/22 - LEED for Homes

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/18 - Michigan Homebuilders Go Green

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/15 - How can we Harvest Rain?

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/13 - Spotlight on LEED - Meijers

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8/11 - What is Green Washing?

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/8 - What is Green Building?

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/6 - What is a Vegetative Roof?

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/4 - ECO Tour Vacation

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

8/1 - Reducing Water Landscape Use

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

7/25 - GM Lansing Delta Township Plant

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7/18 - Heat Island Effect

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Links

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/Heatisland/

http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/

7/16 - How can we reduce landscape water use?

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Links

http://caes.ucdavis.edu/NewsEvents/News/Impact/impact_18.pdf

http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1724.htm

http://www.trimpines.com/LandscapeTips/index.htm

7/14 - How can we take advantage of free solar light?

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Links

http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/designing_remodeling/index.cfm/mytopic=10250

http://www.nmsea.org/Passive_Solar/Passive_Solar_Design.htm

http://www.newenergy.org/sesci/publications/pamphlets/passive.html

7/11 - When to water and cut your lawn?

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Links

http://www.american-lawns.com/lawns/watering.html

http://extension.missouri.edu/drought/towater.htm

http://www.ci.slc.ut.us/utilities/conservation/pdf/lawn.pdf

7/9 - The biggest "green" news at NeoCon

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Links

http://www.neocon.com/" target="blank

http://greenoptions.com/tag/neocon" target="blank

http://63.240.146.149/haworth/assets/Green%20Analysis%20and%20Cultural%20Sustainability.pdf

7/7 - What is LEED?

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Links

http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=222" target="blank

7/4 - Why be a member of the U. S. Green Building Council?

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Links

http://www.usgbc.org/" target="blank

http://chapters.usgbc.org/detroit/" target="blank

7/2 - What is the US Green building Council?

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Links

http://www.usgbc.org/

http://www.greeningtheheartland2008.org/

http://www.greenbuild365.org/

http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/

6/30 - Why care about being "Green?"

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Links

http://www.hearst.com/being_green/

http://www.thegreenguide.com/

http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/pubs/faqs.htm

http://www.usgbc.org/Docs/News/News477.pdf