Misc

PLAIN – The village of Plain is going green and high-tech.

NEWBURYPORT — The first green business will open in the Newburyport Clean Tech Center next month, a milestone for the city’s fledgling green business initiative. Solais, an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient LED lighting company, will relocate to the industrial park and move into a portion of office space at the Arwood Machine Co. building on Parker Street that is being rented by the …

21 September 2010 JEDDAH – The Saudi Green Buildings Forum, to be held in Riyadh on Oct. 16- 18, is designed to demonstrate the efforts being undertaken in Saudi Arabia to monitor and control the environmental impact of building construction and to promote the design of efficient green buildings.

The Green Building Council will host a question and answer forum at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Volusia Building Industry Association Office, 3520 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach.

Silver Lake Nature Center will hold its third annual Green Fest on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

First fully green building soon in Abu Dhabi

22 September 2010 ABU DHABI — The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority’s new building, now under construction in the capital, will be the first ‘green building’ in the emirate adhering 100 per cent to the green building codes.

The massive rebuild facing Christchurch in the wake of the earthquake presents a unique opportunity for the city to lead New Zealand in sustainable building practices, says the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC).

FAYETTEVILLE — To celebrate its one-year anniversary, the South Central PA Green Building Association will hold its first annual Green Recognition Dinner on Thursday to honor area organizations that have constructed buildings that have received LEED certification in the past year.

The newest Habitat for Humanity neighborhood in Greensboro is going “green.”