A new study by the US Green Building council shows that nearly a quarter of new buildings certified do not live up to the energy standards projected in their designs. Starting this year buildings will be required to submit their water and energy bills for their first five years or risk loosing their certification. Read [...]
Archive for August, 2009
LEED Certification Comes Under Fire
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Local Offerings this Week at Guilford Dining
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Each week I’m going to start posting our list of local products available in the Dining Hall. We just recently lost one of our main local farmers but we’ve picked up a new vendor in Fresh Point Produce that will hopefully increase our local offerings.
Local Produce:
Organic Cucumbers – Faucette Farms (18 Miles)
Organic Globe Eggplant – Cottle Organic (117 miles)
Organic [...]
Greening of a Loading Dock (Part II)
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well the fence and walkway are set, but still no Earth Tub. Unfortunately when it finally arrived we had to refuse delivery due to improper packing. We simply couldn’t accept such an expensive piece of machinery that was possibly damaged. Everyone was certainly bummed. We should be receiving our new Earth Tub by mid-week next [...]
Greening of a Loading Dock. (Part I)
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How do you paint a loading dock green? Well we’re starting with a large herb garden right off to the side, and installing a commercial food waste composter right between the garden and the loading dock. Sounds like a good start right? This photo blog will take you through the project so far….
Unfortanately I do [...]
