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    tressing the importance of environmentally friendly building, Tom Fuller from the Wyoming Energy Office told the Wyoming Business Council at their meeting in Torrington on Wednesday that creating more buildings that follow Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines will have a positive impact on future generations of Wyomingites.

    LEED encourages and accelerates adoption of sustainable green building and development practices, according to Fuller, and implements universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.

    To encourage more “green” building in Wyoming, the state recently formed the Wyoming Green Building Council.

    “The council promotes sustainable practices that will benefit multiple generations,” Fuller said. “The technology is evolving based on the experience of building owners, architects and engineers.”

    In Goshen County, the Eastern Wyoming College Construction Technology Program also stresses environmentally friendly, energy efficient building techniques. Students in the program are currently building their third house. All three of the program’s houses were built using “green” technology.
    The Torrington Telegram

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    Go green with LED light
    LED tube light is good for you to go green.
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    The "Green Houses" will be under the ground and that will make to the house to be warm in winter and cool in summer. People will work in their homes. Every family will have a playground where they will plant vegetables.

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    In India, Green Building awareness is increasing. Almost in all states, buildings are being constructed with Green concept. Dnyandeep has launched green-tech yahoogroup for builders, civil engineers and architects who wish to get more info on Green Building.
    Join the group by visiting groups.yahoo.com/group/green-tech and groups.google.com/group/green-tech
    You access Seminar papers presented in various seminars conducted on this topic.

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    One of the reasons I signed into this forum was to get information such as this. As a business person in the construction industry I would like to find where the projected "hotspots" for multi-family green building are in the country. Which cities / areas are most likely to pass green building initiatives in the next 1-3 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dnyandeep View Post
    In India, Green Building awareness is increasing. Almost in all states, buildings are being constructed with Green concept. Dnyandeep has launched green-tech yahoogroup for builders, civil engineers and architects who wish to get more info on Green Building.
    Join the group by visiting groups.yahoo.com/group/green-tech and groups.google.com/group/green-tech
    You access Seminar papers presented in various seminars conducted on this topic.
    Great!..but in my place I don't think that it exists..maybe because of lack of information dissemination/awareness by the proper authorities....its actually a nice idea to built a green building...

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    Quote Originally Posted by linaguo View Post
    Go green with LED light
    LED tube light is good for you to go green.
    Cool! that is good of you to introduce us to these things here I will check on it ...its important that we will use this kind of led light for our cause..to go Green!!

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    this is a good move because nowadays one of the steps in constructing structures before pouring in the concrete is to build scaffoldings. Scaffoldings are heavily dependent on wood as their basic materials to build scaffoldings. if we could find a good alternative material to build scaffoldings then no doubt we would be saving a lot of trees.

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    In our place, all the flashlights are made from led lights and they are all very effective. I would fancy our place selling led lighting at home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by homebrewer View Post
    In our place, all the flashlights are made from led lights and they are all very effective. I would fancy our place selling led lighting at home.
    Don't forget to buy your LED xmas lights for next year! Definitely makes them more affordable when they are 50%+ off! They save up to 80% electricity too.

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    These green houses doesn't seem to be as popular in countries with tropical climates or 2-seasons - hot and rainy.

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    That's a great idea for reducing thr electricity, and we should do it and keep it.
    We should do more for the only earth!

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    Quote Originally Posted by naughtyluck View Post
    The "Green Houses" will be under the ground and that will make to the house to be warm in winter and cool in summer. People will work in their homes. Every family will have a playground where they will plant vegetables.
    True for many places. Then there is the partial burial of the Earthship homes, the greenest of them all by recycling a huge pollutant--used tires. Rainy and tropical areas can still be green with solar power, and/or wind generators.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Val View Post
    True for many places. Then there is the partial burial of the Earthship homes, the greenest of them all by recycling a huge pollutant--used tires. Rainy and tropical areas can still be green with solar power, and/or wind generators.
    Getting heat from the dryer vent only needs an old nylon stocking. So many here are sales people or middle men which adds to the cost of green buildings. Do it yourself is the way to go, using library books as your guide. LEED is a profiteering group for using more expensive manufactured green products, when the truly greenest buildings are the ones built from used tires and straw bales, scrap, and indigenous materials. DIY solar and wind are easy. DIY straw bale homes are easy, but the Earthship rammed earth-tire homes with the best thermal mass design require a real man to build them. Someone with strength, intelligence, and courage---no wimps, dummies, or out of shape people (they should all die off to make the world sustainable).

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    Never had a dryer that got that hot, nor had any problems with the nylons trick. No money wasted on sales people.
    But now, we are super green and do not use the wasteful energy of a dryer. I hang up our clothes on lines, outside and retractable in the garage. Solar houses do not use dryers, and neither do any other 'real' green buildings that are solar or wind powered. Our Staber washing machine does a large load well with only 15 gallons of water and 135 watt hours of solar electricity. The super efficient spin cycle gets the clothes well drained out, and the top loading horizontal spin design(like a front loader) does not tear apart clothes like regular agitators and dryers. Clothes last much longer.

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