She doesn’t consider herself a great cook and she never aspired to be a restaurant owner. But Sandy Orr and her oldest daughter, Jennifer Johnson, are feeding hundreds of people each week through their Crossville-based business, The Green Onion. Orr was the speaker at Thursday’s weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Carmi, held at the Farm Bureau Building.
International Code Council (ICC), ASHRAE, US Green Building Council (USGBC), and Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) – all members of ANSI – have announced launch of International Green Construction Code (IGCC). As merger of 2 national efforts to develop adoptable and enforceable green building codes, IGCC will provide building industry with language that broadens and …
Trathen Heckman will speak at the Sierra Green Days banquet. Courtesy photo Starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, Portland, Ore., artist Garett Brennan and his band, the Great Salt Licks, will play a free concert on the main stage at Ironstone Vineyards as part of Sierra Green Days, a three-day celebration of health, sustainability and community put on by the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.
Starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, Portland, Ore., artist Garett Brennan and his band, the Great Salt Licks, will play a free concert on the main stage at Ironstone Vineyards as part of Sierra Green Days, a three-day celebration of health, sustainability and community put on by the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.
The city’s year-old Green Building Resource Center unveiled its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification. It’s part of Houston’s ongoing effort to cut energy consumption and help the community do the same. Air conditioning season is just around the corner, and with it, the pain of piling up big cooling bills. In fact, chances are your home or business is probably working …
Trathen Heckman will speak at the Sierra Green Days banquet. Courtesy photo Starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, Portland, Ore., artist Garett Brennan and his band, the Great Salt Licks, will play a free concert on the main stage at Ironstone Vineyards as part of Sierra Green Days, a three-day celebration of health, sustainability and community put on by the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.
The International Code Council and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. have merged their efforts, rather than compete, to develop the nation’s first “green” model code for commercial buildings.
Buildings are significant consumers of energy and major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. Â Organizations are discovering the importance of employing green building practices and principles not only to raise the level of its building’s operational performance but also to make it more environmentally friendly.
Western Nevada College will host a free green building seminar from 8:30-11:45 a.m. Thursday, March 25 in the Reynolds building, room 114. Learn about cost-effective and mainstream green materials and techniques and how to use them in any project to save energy, water, time and money. The instructor is Barbara Collins, a senior building science consultant with Energy Rated Homes, a company that …
Experts: Green building could save Jordan’s resources, create jobs
