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Ads Urge Wineries to Stick a Cork in It

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building environment — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:20:35 +0000

The Portugese cork industry, backed by the Portuguese government, is going all out to market the green qualities of cork over aluminum twist-off caps or plastic stoppers.

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Building as green as can be

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:19:37 +0000

Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers Union in Sudbury were not only celebrating Labour Day on Monday, but also the opening of the union's new state-of-the-art headquarters. It's a new era for Local 598, said president Richard Paquin during Monday's official opening ceremonies.[...]

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SL Green Sells Brimming 19 West 44th for $123 M.

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:10:27 +0000

SL Green , the city's largest office landlord, has agreed to sell 19 West 44th Street for $123.2 million to Deka Immobilien , a German real estate investor. That's nearly double the $67 million that SL Green paid for the 292,000-square-foot building in 2004. The company plans to invest the $118 million in net proceeds towards 125 Park Avenue, which it agreed to buy from Shorenstein Properties ...

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Many developers yet to go green

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building environment — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:18:57 +0000

Many developers have yet to seriously consider the potential of sustainable development via the use of green technologies, a senior minister said.

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SL Green Sells Manhattan Property for $123.2 Million

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:08:21 +0000

Commercial realtor SL Green Realty said Tuesday it plans to sell 19 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan for $123.2 million, or $422 per square foot, to Deka Immobilien.

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Westinghouse U.S. BWR Service Center Office Building Achieves LEED® Certification

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building environment — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that its Boiling Water Reactor Service Center office building at its Chattanooga, Tenn., , campus has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification from the U.S.

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Green economy growing in West Midlands

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:15:45 +0000

Firms in the West Midlands are increasingly looking at green industry to grow their businesses, a survey has revealed.

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George School Green Library awarded LEED Gold Certification

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:56:49 +0000

Newtown, PA — George School is proud to announce that its Learning Commons and Mollie Dodd Anderson Library has been awarded LEED® Gold certification from the Green Building Certification Institute under the standards established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). George School is the first school in Bucks County and one of eighteen in Pennsylvania to achieve LEED certification ...

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Manufacturing Extension Partnership Awards Grant to Support Green Building Technologies

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:24:27 +0000

NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership has awarded grant of $1.5 million over 3 years to Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center and NJ Manufacturing Extension Partnership to encourage expanded manufacturing of energy-efficient building technologies. Grant complements larger U.S. DOE project that provides up to $122 million to Pennsylvania State University for Energy Innovation Hub ...

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Yes you can build a low-cost ‘green’ house

Yahoo! News Search Results for green building environment — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:01:59 +0000

The greenest house in Lewis County, Ky., is a pleasant shade of blue -- and a model for future low-income housing. It is LEED-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, which means it is an energy-efficient, durable and healthy place to live.

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