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No 7</span></span><br>
<span class=style2><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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color:black'>Dear Readers,</span></h4>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>In this
issue some key issues related to green building are featured, including a
very recent report from the Green Building Council of Australia on the
costs of green building, and some purported changes that are expected
within the green building movement. For homeowners, two reports are to be
noted, the first dealing with insulation, and the second on remodelling.</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>We
trust you find all of this useful.</span></p>
<p><span class=style3><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Yours
Truly,</span></span></p>
<h5><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Llewellyn van Wyk</span></h5>
<p><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Editor-at-Large</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
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<b>Green Building e-Journal</b></span><br>
<span class=style><span font-family:=Verdana 8pt;font-size:=""><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ISBN:
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>In late
2006, the Victorian Building Commission provided additional funding to the
Green Building Council Australia (GBCA) to update the Green Star Diffusion
project to identify actions for industry and government that could be used
as a basis for the development of a national roadmap for sustainable
building in Australia.</span></p>
<p class=style41><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Green
Building a Plus for Builders in Tough Market</span></b></a></span></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Home
builders attending the May 11-13 NAHB National Green Building Show in New
Orleans were told by market analysts that they have a long way to go to
sell the benefits of sustainable construction technologies to their
prospective customers. </span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>But at
a time when housing demand remains largely sluggish around the country,
advances in green building are providing a notable shot in the arm for
builders, and as the housing industry moves out of its cyclical downturn
green business appears headed for a galloping rate of growth.</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Builders
polled in the latest survey by McGraw Hill Construction on the evolving
trends and opportunities in the green residential marketplace cited demand
from this quarter of the industry for keeping their businesses alive during
hard times.</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></p>
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Improving
the Energy Efficiency of our Buildings</span></a></span></b></span></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>This
document is intended to help prospective sellers, buyers, landlords,
occupiers, building managers, builders and their agents understand how the
UK Directive and Regulations work in practice, how to apply the
Regulations, what their responsibilities are and when energy certificates
are required. </span></p>
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color:#4EB001'><a
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>The Ins and
Outs of Insulation</span></a></span></b></span></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Your
clients may not see insulation, but they sure feel it. In this age of
energy efficiency, more customers are demanding better insulated homes.</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Heating
and cooling costs comprise more than 50 percent of the energy consumed in a
single-family home. Adding the recommended levels of insulation will save
energy, reduce utility costs and improve comfort.</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>But do
you find yourself standing at the store staring at bags of pink cotton
candy, blue patches of fur, and rigid pink, white and beige boards
wondering which one is right for your project?</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing offers some simple guidance
on choosing insulation, including some popular green alternatives.</span></p>
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color:#4EB001'><a
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>More Big
Changes Ahead Predicted for Green Building</span></a></span></b></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Peter
Yost, a former member of the NAHB Research Center staff, told the NAHB
National Green Building Conference in New Orleans that he is surprised at
how quickly green building has grown since the annual conference was
inaugurated in Denver 10 years ago, a trend he said is linked to the
skyrocketing cost of energy. </span></p>
<p><span class=style4><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#4EB001'><a
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color:#4EB001'><a
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Home
Remodelling</span></a></span></b></span></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>These
Guidelines are designed for professional contractors and homeowners</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Guidelines offer cost - effective suggestions to minimize construction -
related waste, create healthier and more durable homes, reduce operating
costs for homeowners and support local manufacturers and suppliers of
resource-efficient building materials, and methods to reduce the impacts of
building in Alameda County communities including solid waste management,
water conservation, energy efficiency and resource conservation.</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
practices contained in these Guidelines were selected for their viability
in today�s</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>market
and their ability to promote sustainable building. Builders using this
booklet</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>will
differentiate themselves in the marketplace while protecting our
environment.</span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Guidelines were developed through a partnership among local developers,
architects, contractors, green building experts and staff of the Alameda
County Waste Management Authority and Recycling Board.</span></p>
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color:#4EB001'><a
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Directive �
a Snapshot Report</span></a></span></b></span></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Directive
� a snapshot reportIn October 2007, the European Energy network, conducted
a �snapshot� survey into the current status of activities arising from the
Implementation of the Energy Performance in Building Directive (EPBD) in
the EU and associated countries using the expertise of its 23 members. The
snapshot focused on new build and existing buildings in residential public
and commercial sectors as these represent the greatest potential for energy
and carbon dioxide savings in the EU. </span></p>
<p><span class=style4><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#4EB001'><a
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<td valign=top><p><span class=style4><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#4EB001'><a
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>�Green
Economics�: Turning Mainstream Thinking on its Head</span></a></span></b></span></p></td>
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ideas
about how the world works that don�t accord with reality can be unhelpful.
That�s especially true about mainstream economics, which is based in part
on ideas that made a lot of sense at some point in the last 250 years but
that have outlived their time and usefulness. These ideas�such as the
reliance on GDP as the key index of general wellbeing�still dominate
assumptions and thinking about economic matters in the media, governments,
businesses, and popular consciousness. </span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>But in
recent decades, economics theoreticians and researchers have suggested a
variety of reforms that would make economics truer, greener, and more
sustainable. In this article Gary Gardner and Tom Prugh describe seven of
these in Chapter 1 of the Worldwatch Institute�s latest report, State of
the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy</span><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. </span></p>
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style='color:#4EB001;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>The Green
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<td colspan=2 valign=top><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>This
case study looks into the shareholders premium value of investing in
�green.� It has always been suggested that sustainable design, while a
hefty cost in the beginning, will eventually pay off in the long run. This
report, by local South African company, MetaLabs, proves how much the
saving on 'green' can be, and puts an end to the myth of no premium in
sustainbility by showing the facts.</span></p>
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