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- LEED Gold-targeted Knight Campus advances scientific innovation Thu, 14 Jan 21, 2:30amThe University of Oregon recently welcomed the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, a 160,000-square-foot campus built to accelerate groundbreaking scientific discovery and development in a collaborative...
- Scientists just learned what makes Yellowstone's supervolcano tick Thu, 19 Apr 18, 4:18amWe all know about the supervolcano boiling underneath Yellowstone - but, until now, we didn't know what was fueling the cauldron. This week, scientists revealed that they were able to model the behavior of two magma chambers...
- Oregon Ducks hit a home run with ber-green Jane Sanders Stadium Tue, 28 Feb 17, 1:19amThe Oregon Ducks hit a home run recently with the addition of the Jane Sanders Stadium, a svelte new home for the university’s softball team that’s designed to achieve LEED Gold certification...
- Researchers discover that architecture has an impact on which microbes thrive around you Tue, 29 Sep 15, 8:00pmMicrobes: our bodies are made up of them, our environment is teeming with them, and when they get out of balance, things go bad quickly. And while most of us are aware of the impact our diet and antibiotic use has on the...
- Marking the Forest : An Architecture Course in the Oregon Woods Sat, 30 Aug 14, 5:20amPeople who love architecture tend to love wild spaces as well: after all, buildings and landscapes complement one another, right? Well, imagine being able to study architecture design in a forest environment, where structures...
- Day of the ‘UnGreens’ – Dreaming up scary language to convince people global warming is really just like a scary movie Sun, 25 Aug 13, 3:17amWUWT recently covered the lexicon shift at the White House: Lexicon Shift Alert: global warming gets another name change. This seems generally harmless, but wait until you see the source of one of the names on that list:...
- Cool clean coal – just add refrigeration Tue, 28 Aug 12, 5:00pmFrom the University of Oregon a wacky idea to refrigerate smokestacks. Cooled coal emissions would clean air and lower health and climate-change costs EUGENE, Ore. — (Aug. 27, 2012) — Refrigerating coal-plant...
- Rewriting history: “treatment” of climate sceptics disappears from University of Oregon press statement Tue, 3 Apr 12, 2:12pmI’ve been purposely ignoring this ugly pronouncement related to “Planet Under Pressure“, because well, it was just so beyond ugly and it brought up visions of the Soviet politburo defining political opposition...
- Study: it takes 10 units of alternative electricity sources to offset 1 unit of fossil fuel-generated power Wed, 21 Mar 12, 9:30pmFrom the University of Oregon a clue as to why green energy isn’t making much inroads. For example, compare these findings to what we learned recently from Matt Ridley about the big fat zero of wind power in the bigger...
- Winners Named for the Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge Bike Design Competition Thu, 29 Sep 11, 10:38pmThe winners were recently chosen for the Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge, a competition to design and build the ultimate modern utility bike...
- Prismatic High-Performing Jaqua Center Fosters Learning at the University of Oregon Tue, 21 Jun 11, 5:45amRead the rest of Prismatic High-Performing Jaqua Center Fosters Learning at the University of Oregon Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Daylighting, eco design, energy efficient...