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World of Environmental Design Magazine

The Kandalama Hotel in Sri Lanka is world renowned as one of the first environmental hotels in Asia, which led to the greening of an industry. Alex Joseph visited the Kandalama Hotel twice and writes on the green hotel features, personal observations and lessons learned from his travels in this part of Asia.

David Suzuki
Geneticist, Host of The Nature of Things
Founder of David Suzuki Foundation

Graham Meltzer
Architectural Photographer,
PhD Co-housing

Jörg Ostrowski
Urban Green Building Pioneer
Ecological Design Guru

Green Products

Green Building News

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InsulAdd Paint
Don't paint...insulate!

News Blog

Green Building Festival
Toronto Oct 2005

Straw Bale Building
Chris Magwood

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Green buildings with LEED Certification meet high environmental standards.

We take what we think are the best green building sites from Google search results , index them, add additional relevant content, so you (273 members) can search and find only the best information.

We focus on green buildings and environmental design tools and information that goes beyond the LEED™ standard to showcase what is really possible with green buildings. Site map of project. Linked.