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Yudelson Illuminates Green Building in Entrepreneur Magazine
Saturday, November 15, 2008In the November issue of Entrepreneur magazine, Jerry spells out three important tips for contractors wanting to get into the business.
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The Green Building Revolution Accelerates
Tuesday, February 19, 2008If you’re an architect, engineer, builder or supplier to the green building industry, 2008 needs to be the year you get your business and professional act together. If you’re a building owner or developer, every future project should be a green building. Here’s why.
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Zen: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Friday, February 01, 2008My wife and I have an ongoing discussion about how “perfect” things need to be around the home.
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Water-free Urinals: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Tuesday, January 15, 2008Urinals waste more than 150 billion gallons of fresh water per year, equivalent to the water use of 1,500,000 homes, at an average use of 300 gallons per day per home.
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Thermal Energy Storage: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Tuesday, January 01, 2008Thermal energy storage is a simple concept: make ice or chilled water when power is cheap, then avoid buying electricity to operate mechanical cooling systems when it is expensive.
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Salvage Materials: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Saturday, December 15, 2007“A penny saved is a penny earned,” wrote Ben Franklin. We care about reusing building materials because of the energy and resources they represent.
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Commercial Market Size
Saturday, December 08, 2007An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s Green Building Revolution: To give a measure of perspective, the residential construction market in the United States was $595 billion in 2006, about 70 percent larger than the total nonresidential market…
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Restoration of Sites: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Saturday, December 01, 2007A goal of many green building projects is to leave the land a better place than it was before.
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Paints, Low-VOC: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Thursday, November 15, 2007In 2006 I moved into a home that needed repainting. Since my wife is a “miner’s canary,” in terms of her sensitivity to all chemical emissions, we went in search of paint that wouldn’t leave a strong odor.
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Incentives: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Thursday, November 01, 2007Given a choice, most people prefer the carrot to the stick; at this point in the development of green building methods, techniques and technologies, incentive systems seem a better approach than mandates.
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Green Building Consultant pens book on sustainability for developers
Tuesday, October 30, 2007So begins a laudatory review of “Green Building: A to Z” in the Phoenix Business Journal. For more on this review…
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Portland Architecture blog reviews Green Building A to Z
Saturday, October 20, 2007Brian Libby’s well read blog, Portland Architecture, praises Green Building A to Z, with these words: Jerry seems to crank out books like other people finish the Monday crossword. His fifth and latest makes an ideal reference material for any architect, builder or green building enthusiast’s bookshelf.
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Ecoefficiency and Ecoeffectiveness: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Monday, October 15, 2007Architect and sustainable design expert William McDonough exhorts green building designers not to be content with just “doing less-bad” designs that put off the day of reckoning for excessive energy and water use, but to design buildings and cities that are “positively good.”
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Commissioning: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Tuesday, October 02, 2007Building commissioning is a high-value-added activity that is unknown outside the building industry. Think of a ship; when construction is finished, it’s time for sea trials.
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My Green Crystal Ball: $30 billion in ‘07
Thursday, March 08, 2007Yudelson’s crystal ball estimates the 2007 green building market at $30 billion.
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