Photo: Houston Chronicle, Samantha Lopez Sustainability has become an increasingly hot topic on the streets of Houston. Instead of avoiding purchases altogether, one way that locals are beating the buyer-blues is by repurposing and reselling vintage items. Every first Saturday of the month, EaDo Vintage hosts "Swap Meets" to do just that.
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Another major data center cluster is emerging in Northern Virginia, as more developers are building campuses near Leesburg, about 10 miles west of Northern Virginia’s primary data center hub in Ashburn. The latest developer to select Leesburg is TA Realty, which this week unveiled plans for a huge data center campus just off the Loudoun Greenway and Sycolin Road. The company plans to invest $1.8 billion to create a 300-megawatt campus with an on-site substation and more than 1.5 million square feet of data center space. TA Realty said the initial buildings (plural) will come online in late 2021.
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Imagine if all built environment projects eliminated waste, preserved the value of materials and restored natural ecosystems. If you are responsible for designing or managing work environments, now is a critical time for you to understand what the transition to a Circular Economy could mean for your business and the role you play in overall value creation. Design stage decisions have major consequences for managing buildings-in-use and post-use recovery of materials. Those who seize this opportunity will be heroes for achieving sustainability commitments that are targeted for 2030 and beyond.
It may be more difficult to attain the zero hunger goal by 2030 due to the coronavirus pandemic but the government remains committed to sustain food security in the country, according to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles.
Did You Know? Furman has eight LEED certified buildings including Hipp Hall, the first LEED certified building in South Carolina, and The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, a former Southern Living Green Design Showcase home. The Physical Activities Center (PAC) is home to a large solar thermal system that generates hot water for the building. The roof also holds a 95 kW solar photovoltaic array that provides electricity to the building, and the elliptical machines are equipped with ReRev technology, which generates electricity from the energy of students, faculty, and staff working out!
Dentsu is shifting from its South Melbourne head office on York St, to a new base in Cremorne, Mumbrella can reveal. The holding group is set to move its 430 Melbourne-based staff in the middle of this year as an “important step in the evolution of Dentsu ANZ”, CEO Angela Tangas told Mumbrella as it looks to enhance collaboration across the group. The new Church St location will house Dentsu’s 430 Melbourne staff. “The new office location will enable never before radical collaboration with a customised fit out that encourages integrated teaming, inspires creativity everywhere and is a place, most importantly, where our people want to be.”