By Harriet Blake, ABC News
America's urban centers are becoming ever greener, with the National League of Cities holding its first ever Green Cities Conference last month. While many cities have recently taken up environmental causes, some have been carrying the banner for years.
Seattle, home to such earlier innovations as the 60s Space Needle, Microsoft, and grunge rock, is
Watch as Business News Network (BNN) Howard Green speaks to Dr. Ron Dembo, founder, Zero Footprint; Margaret Atwood, author; and David Miller, Mayor of Toronto at the Building Re-Skinning Competition Launch at the OCE Discovery 09 Conference on May 12, 2009.
Andy Barrie spoke with Ron Dembo about the Zerofootprint Building Re-Skinning Competition. May 11, 2009 on CBC Toronto Radio
By Lloyd Alter, Treehhugger.com
At Architecture 2030, Ed Mazria tells us that buildings generate nearly 50% of the greenhouse gases in America; in the cities it is far higher. We know we have to cut the energy consumption of new buildings (not that anyone is taking this particularly seriously, but that is another post) but what to do about our existing buildings? The
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Posted in Green – Great Green Leaders
Daniel Pink proclaims this to be, the age of the Creatives. The big thinkers, big picture approach will pull us through these transitional times. They will guide us from our somewhat broken reality into a smarter, richer, and cleaner future.
Ron Dembo, has always been a big thinker. His previous career saw
TORONTO, April 12- Zerofootprint announced the launch of its International Building Re-Skinning Competition, today at the Discovery 09 Conference in Toronto. "The building re-skinning design competition's goal," according to Dr. Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint's founder, "is to develop a smart, reproducible, beautiful, cost effective, energy efficient solution for the re-skinning of
By Christie Monday, The Renewable Planet.com
Here's a statistic most people aren't aware of: the largest percentage of urban greenhouse gas emissions come from the operation of residential and commercial buildings. Not cars, not garbage, not industry buildings.
With outdated insulation, heating, cooling and energy use, most buildings are simply inefficient by today's green
By Stephanie Carter, Zerofootprint
In August 2008, the City of Edmonton launched the Zerofootprint Edmonton Challenge. A part of its thriving EcoVision initiative, the Challenge lets Edmontonians help improve the world by greening their city. Participants are eligible for regular monthly prizes and the grand prize of a Toyoto Prius hybrid for a year. The Challenge is now in its
