The South African eJournal of Green Building
Edited by Llewellyn van Wyk, the South African e-Journal of Green Building is the academic email Journal that is distributed to more than 40 000 built environment stakeholders each month. The e-Journal enjoys terrific readership and includes approximately 12 cutting edge articles in each issue.
This e-Journal is a monthly, green building e-Journal that is currently sent to professionals, government and municipalities, sector relevant associations and NGO’s, research institutions and relevant stakeholders within South Africa and Africa. The e-Journal focuses on current trends, news and information regarding green building both locally and internationally.
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eJournal Volume 4, Issue 4
Dear Readers,
Redefining sustainability is the single theme of this month’s eJournal: in the aftermath of numerous natural and man-made disasters and a global economic meltdown it behoves us to take stock of the initial premise which drove sustainability and recalibrate it for a world gone slightly mad.
The Brundtland…
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A New Era of Sustainability
CEO reflections on progress to date, challenges ahead and the impact of the journey toward a sustainable economy.
ForewordWe come together at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010 to mark a decade of progress in advancing the corporate sustainability movement globally. It is fitting that we use this occasion…
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2030 Conversations
“Ladies and gentlemen, fellow South Africans, I do know one thing for sure: when 2030 doesfinally come along, there will still be rainbows arching over the horizons of our beautiful andbeloved land as a sign of hope. May God richly bless South Africa’s future. Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.”
Please…
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David Baker + Partners serve society, environment
John Sebastian Russo
David Baker + Partners' two newest projects have much in common. Undulating roofs are cloaked in vegetation. Tall slit windows add a rhythmic snap to the facade. The ground floors blur the line between indoors and out.
Now comes the kicker: One is a boutique hotel in Healdsburg, the other…
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Theses on Sustainability: A Primer
[1] THE TERM HAS BECOME so widely used that it is in danger of meaning nothing. It has been applied to all manner of activities in an effort to give those activities the gloss of moral imperative, the cachet of environmental enlightenment. “Sustainable” has been used variously to mean “politically…
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Can Humans Survive?
Jim Linwood
Humans have survived ice ages and deadly pandemics to become the dominant species on Earth, even if our reign over the planet barely represents a blip in a geological record that has seen countless living organisms come and go. We have adapted to live almost anywhere, and have harnessed the…
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A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life
Jessica Ebelhar for The New York Times
So in 1991, when during construction of a General Services Administration office building in Lower Manhattan, graves were discovered 24 feet below ground, and when those remains led to the discovery of hundreds of other bodies in the same area, and when it was determined that these were black New…
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