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The Skyscraper, Green Design, & The Leed Green Building Rating System: The Creation Of Uniform Sustainable Standards For The 21st Century Or The Perpetuation Of An Architectural Fiction?, Stephen T. Del Percio
The Skyscraper, Green Design, & The Leed Green Building Rating System: The Creation Of Uniform Sustainable Standards For The 21st Century Or The Perpetuation Of An Architectural Fiction?, Stephen T. Del Percio
W&M Law Student Publications
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An Introduction To Biophilia And The Built Environment, Corey Griffin
An Introduction To Biophilia And The Built Environment, Corey Griffin
School of Architecture Faculty Publication and Presentations
Today, the technology and knowledge exists to create a building that touches the earth lightly during both construction and day-to-day operations. However, what has been often neglected by creators of low-impact “green” buildings is the need for spaces to be habitable. Occupants of built environments don’t want simply to work, play, eat, or sleep in a functional building. They want to be inspired, invigorated, comforted, and reassured by their surroundings. They want spaces that will make them more productive and healthy, and they want spaces in which they love to be—spaces that, as RMI’s Amory Lovins puts it, create “delight …
Public Private Partnerships And Sustainability Principles Guiding Legislation And Current Practice, Brenda Ryan
Public Private Partnerships And Sustainability Principles Guiding Legislation And Current Practice, Brenda Ryan
Reports
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Land For Maine's Future Program: Increasing The Return On A Sound Public Investment, Richard Barringer, Hugh Coxe, Jack Kartez, Catherine Reilly, Jonathan Rubin
Land For Maine's Future Program: Increasing The Return On A Sound Public Investment, Richard Barringer, Hugh Coxe, Jack Kartez, Catherine Reilly, Jonathan Rubin
Economics and Finance
Maine is nowhere a more special place than in the quality of its landscape and the traditions of its land use. Among the mo st privately-owned of all the states, Maine’s natural diversity and beauty combine with its traditions of resource stewardship, open access, and appreciation of nature to distinguish it in the public mind and national imagination. In recent decades, however, these traditions have come under assault from the forces of economic and social change; and the people of Maine have responded. In 1986, Governor Joseph Brennan’s Special Commission on Outdoor Recreation recognized the growing threats to Maine’s natur …