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Kansas City Ranks 20th Among 'Green' U.S. Cities |
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2008-09-23
K.C. Slips from 18 to 20
The 2008 SustainLane U.S. City Rankings have been released, with Portland, San Francisco and Seattle named as top three green cities and Mesa down at the bottom, CSRwire reports.
Based on 16 economic, environmental and green/clean tech categories, the rankings by sustainlane.com factor in each city's ability to maintain healthy air, drinking water, parks and public transit systems, as well as a robust, sustainable local economy with green building, farmers markets, renewable energy and alternative fuels.
Some of the trends occurring in cities are:
- 1. More bicycling – There are 12.3 percent more cyclists across the U.S.
- 2. Trains are making a comeback – Many cities including Phoenix, Charlotte, N.C., Seattle, Portland to name a few are investing in new light rail and other public transit infrastructure investments.
- 3. Alternative/ renewable energy becoming priorities – Production of wind and solar energy and energy conservation are priorities in Boston, San Francisco, Portland, Houston, Austin and Sacramento.
- 4. More LEED buildings – Cities like Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, NYC and San Francisco are expanding to every type of built environment, some controversial: parking lots, airports, zoos, museums and others.
- 5. Forestation of Cities – Chicago, Oakland, Los Angeles, NYC, Tulsa and Atlanta are all increasing urban canopies on streets or as part of green roofs.
For more information, go to Portland Tops U.S. ‘Green' City Rankings
Source: Environmental Leader, September 23, 2008 |
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 00:27 |
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Proposed spot parks are right on target |
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 03:54 |
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2008-09-22
K-State grad wins a Monsters of Design award
By: Steve Paul
When Kimberly Kolkovich searched for a project in her last months of architectural school, she stepped outside the Kansas City Design Center, looked around and wondered, what if …?
What if you could replace a single curbside parking spot with a micropark, a little bit of urban respite?
By the time she finished wondering, Kolkovich had designed three such prototype parks for specific locations downtown. She called them Spot Parks, and the speculative proposal earned the recent Kansas State University graduate a Monsters of Design award in the annual competition sponsored by the Young Architects Forum here.
Kolkovich, whose specialty is interiors, turned the idea of public space as an outdoor room into something quite tangible, both responsive to the city and environmentally conscious.
For more information, go to From parking spaces to micro parks
Source: The Kansas City Star, September 21, 2008 |
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 00:27 |
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Solution of the Month: Daylighting for Deep Interiors |
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 03:54 |
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2008-09-01
BNIM Architects
By: David Sokol
For admitting daylight into a vast, low-slung building like a warehouse, skylights are no-brainers. But allowing that light to penetrate far into the interior requires a multi-pronged scheme. BNIM Architects' deft handling of an atrium for the General Services Administration suggests an artistic approach to the solution.
BNIM took on the partial renovation of a million-plus-square-foot warehouse within the Bannister Road Federal Complex in Kansas City, Missouri, as part of its five-year contract with the GSA's Heartland Region. The 1940s-era building was originally constructed as an airplane factory to support the war effort. The GSA later took ownership of the building and used it for paper and equipment storage, and it recently distributed some of that space to much-needed offices for the Federal Supply Service. (Honeywell Corporation leases half of the building.)
Responding to the GSA's Workplace 20-20 initiative for improving the quality of federal office space, not to mention sustainability principles in general, BNIM's project team, led by associate Curtis Simmons, AIA, LEED, decided to incise two bays above the renovation area and cap them with skylights whose rakish angle facilitate self-cleaning—every rainstorm is a nature-made wash. Underneath, BNIM fashioned the warehouse into a circulation core. This 3,200-square-foot atrium allowed the architects to equitably distribute illumination from the skylights among the adjacent offices.
For more information, go to Daylighting for Deep Interiors
Source: GreenSource, September 2008 |
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 00:24 |
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John Deere to Build New LEED Gold Marketing/Sales Center in Olathe |
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 03:54 |
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2008-09-10
John Deere and the city of Olathe, Kansas announced today that John Deere will build a new marketing and sales center in northwest Olathe, in the Corporate Ridge Office Park, near K 10 and Ridgeview Road. This 126,150 square-foot facility will house more than 400 marketing professionals who provide support and service to John Deere sales branches and agricultural dealerships in the U.S. and Canada.
"This state-of-the-art facility will meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Certification, Gold Level," said John Lagemann, vice president of agricultural equipment, sales for U.S. and Canada. "It will provide an exceptional working environment for our employees who work in our industry-leading marketing organization. We're proud of our commitment to the greater Kansas City area - a geographic, cultural center for agriculture."
For more information, go to John Deere
Source: John Deere |
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 00:25 |
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Kansas City gaining reputation as green city; Lawrence to study its efforts |
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 03:54 |
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2008-08-30
By: Karrey Britt
Kansas City is known for its barbecue, jazz, fountains and Royals baseball. It's increasingly becoming known for its efforts to be green.
The National Geographic Green Guide ranked it 25th out of all 251 metropolitan areas with populations of at least 100,000, based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Green Building Council.
SustainLane, an Internet company focusing on green issues, named Kansas City's water quality the best among the 50 largest U.S. cities. The city garnered the third spot for using alternative fuels in city vehicles. All city diesel vehicles use biodiesel and about 225 operate on compressed natural gas, which is much cleaner and cheaper than gasoline.
In July, the city became the first to adopt a climate protection plan in the four-state region of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Its goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020, and it is well on its way.
For more information, go to Lawrence studies K.C.
Source: LJWorld.com, August 29, 2008 |
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