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Some recommendations for regular Lahaina homeowners if your home burned down: - Hire a public insurance adjuster to help you with your claim, in order to get respect from the insurance company. Prepare, if you can, to not get back to living in Lahaina...
by JEnviro
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 12:13 PM PDT
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Virginia’s 10th Congressional District is a potential Red-to-Blue opportunity that is attracting serious external money for a number of reasons, including some polling indicating that the Republican incumbent is at real risk.
Now, before diving...
by A Siegel
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on Thu Oct 06, 2016 at 07:53 AM PDT
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The majority of the people in the world now live in cities and that will probably only increase as this century goes on. We need to imagine cities that are sustainable and, even more, regenerative, ...
by gmoke
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on Sun Aug 04, 2013 at 11:35 AM PDT
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I was born in a small town in Idaho, and now live in a slightly larger town in Montana. For the majority of my life I lived in rural America. I've lived in places where voting Democrat has (or would ...
by 51dimes
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on Sun Mar 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM PDT
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I love writing my NRDC blog and DailyKos diary; if I could do only this for a living, I probably would. I like that it makes me pay attention to what’s going on in my ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Tue Dec 28, 2010 at 09:25 AM PST
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Builders of Hope is a remarkable North Carolina-based charity that saves older houses from demolition (frequently moving them to a ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Wed Nov 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM PST
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by Rosie Powers, Media Consortium ...
by The Media Consortium
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on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 08:55 AM PDT
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The American Institute of Architects has announced its top ten green projects for 2010 . Sponsored by AIA’...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Thu Apr 29, 2010 at 05:37 AM PDT
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cross-posted from Sum of Change
The Heifer International Headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas is one of the greenest buildings ...
by SumOfChange
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on Fri Apr 16, 2010 at 06:29 PM PDT
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Vanessa Keith has written an outstanding post on the greening of urban buildings and neighborhoods, on the ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Tue Feb 02, 2010 at 06:23 AM PST
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Today, the most famous building in San Francisco is also one of the most environmentally friendly in the country. The Transamerica Pyramid building has achieved a LEED Gold certification.
Even ...
by Gavin Newsom
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on Fri Dec 11, 2009 at 05:38 PM PST
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It truly is a travesty. Best-seller lists, the air waves, oped pages, and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt's and Steven Dubner's shallow,
by A Siegel
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on Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 12:12 PM PST
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As I'm sure most readers know, Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation has been constructing houses in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, so that ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Mon Oct 19, 2009 at 09:50 AM PDT
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It's been 20 years since I attended the first Bioneers, back in the day when I was the first environmental columnist in the county, writing about worm composting and recycling and interviewing David ...
by boatsie
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on Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 10:22 AM PDT
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The American Solar Energy Society sponsors a National Solar House Tour on the first week-end of October ...
by gmoke
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on Wed Sep 30, 2009 at 06:59 AM PDT
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Those examining options for "greening" a new or existing building often remain within a stove-piped cost analysis which (in a very simplified fashion) goes something along these lines:
How ...
by A Siegel
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on Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 07:53 PM PDT
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"Denver wants to be the kind of place that brings a lot of innovative ideas," says Denver mayor John Hickenlooper. "What could be more innovative than to build a totally green, pre-fab, multiple- ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 08:49 AM PDT
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If you're looking for an example of a newly designed and built neighborhood that embodies just about all things smart and green, I know of few that can rival Glenwood Park in Atlanta. Just a decade ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 02:00 PM PDT
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This is the final installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati's remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, potentially a national model for smart, green revitalization. The reason that revitalizing ...
by Kaid at NRDC
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on Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 08:25 AM PDT
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I wasn't able to find any other diary entries on this, and there seem to be a number of people who have the wrong impression about Stephen Chu's energy efficient roof proposal. Yes, he did use the ...
by The Progressive Majority
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on Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 02:15 PM PDT
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