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Dovetail Reports - Green Building
Links to Dovetail Reports and Commentaries related to Green Building.
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Green Building Programs
- Potential Game Changers in Green Building
- What is PassivHaus?
- Minnesota GreenStar Program and National Green Building Standard Comparison Report
- Green Building Programs in the U.S.: A Review of Recent Changes Related to Designation of Environmentally Preferable Materials
- What's New in Eco-Affordable Housing?: Combining Green Building Innovations with Affordable Housing Needs
- Designation of Environmentally Preferable Building Materials - Fundamental Change Needed Within LEED
- Innovations in Design & Construction: Opportunities for the Wood Industry
- To be Green or Not to be Green; Its a Pretty Complex Question...Sort of
- What Green Building has to do with Ants at a Picnic and a Billion Chinese
- A Beginner's Guide to Green Building: What the Forest Sector Needs to Know About USGBC & LEED
- Satisfaction with Certfied Green Buildings - An Inquiry of Building Occupants in Minnesota
- Bowyer, J. 2008. Defining Green. Engineered Wood Journal 11(1): 21,24-25.
Green Building Materials
- MN-Made Building Materials (2010)
- Wood-Plastic Composite Lumber vs. Wood Decking
- Green Building Materials: Made in Minnesota (2008)
- Vinyl Siding: A Number of Human Health and Environmental Concerns, But At Least It's Maintenance Free, Isn't It?
- Solid Wood Products: Green Materials or the Bane of Environmental Sustainability?
- What is a Responsible Material Anyway?
- Materials Selection in Framing: Is Steel Framing a Good Environmental Choice?
- Bamboo Flooring: Environmental Silver Bullet or Faux Savior?
- Some Do's and Don'ts in Picking Green Products
- Green Building Blues: Is Wood Getting A Raw Deal?
- In Choosing Windows for Green Building, Old News is Good News!
- Keeping Wood Green: Wood as an environmentally-friendly product