The Green Building
The Green Building of Nulu in Louisville, KY will open Fall 08. NuLu is our name for the emerging arts district and restaurant row centered around East Market Street, bordered by East Main and East Jefferson streets between Clay and Shelby Streets.
Renovation of the 110 year old masonry structure, a former dry goods store, was commenced by owners Augusta and Gill Holland in spring 2007 when they decided to become the first commercial building in Louisville KY to go for LEED platinum certification (the US Green Building Council’s designation of a sustainable building). The 15,000 square foot mixed use facility will house a street facing café and event space on the ground floor, office studios on the upper two floors and an indoor-outdoor courtyard at the rear. See the pictures from our amazing architect Doug Pierson from ferstudio to learn about all the green, environmentally friendly steps undertaken for this green building!
The gallery can, in off-hours show video-projected indie films. The Green Building of Nulu has over eighty solar panels providing almost 15,000 watts of electricity, not to mention the geothermal heating and cooling. Come on down!
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By DAVE LAVENDER
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- There really is nothing like seeing a film on the drive-in movie-sized screen at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center.
The Greater Huntington Film ion wrapped up another great weekend of film last week during the fifth annual Appalachian Film Festival.
At the Saturday night awards ceremony at the Frederick, it was inspiring to listen to such prolific regional filmmakers such as Bill Richardson, of Williamson, W.Va. His "Crash Gordon," took second place in the features category.
Other winners included first place feature: "Tattered Angel," Will Benson, Cincinnati and third place: "Grilling Bobby Hicks," Tommy Wood and Marc Benton, Lawrenceville, Ga.
Documentary winners were first place: "Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund," Rebecca Cerese, Durham, N.C.; second place: "Mountain Top Removal," Michael O'Connell, Pittsboro, N.C. (Read full story)
Conservation International
We all have an impact on the Earth — an ecological footprint left behind by our activities and consumption habits. Size up your impact by taking an interactive quiz on the Conservation International site.
By The Environmental Defense Fund
These tips are drawn from the Paper Printing and Publications Specifications and Guidelines, which Environmental Defense adopted in early 1998 to guide its office practices. Many of these steps can be undertaken by individual office workers, while others may be more appropriately carried out by an office manager or an organization's purchasing or procurement officer; even in the latter cases, however, motivated individuals can play an important role by bringing these preferred practices to the attention of the appropriate individual within their office, organization or company.
By Fairleigh Brooks
LEO Weekly ( Louisville Eccentric Observer)
Winter in Louisville. Ugh. The season too often means living on the crust of a cloud cream pie, below a layer of cumulus piled on stratus, topped off with whipped cirrus. We grasp at the meager gruel of sunlight that makes it through, embracing it like a stale Twinkie because it’s better than nothing. And yet, even in Louisville, capturing and using solar energy is not just possible, it’s quite doable.
Consider that the sheer numbers quantifying the energy output of the sun are staggering — incomprehensible to most who are not solar or stellar physicists. This energy is radiated constantly and in all directions. The total radiation our little planet intercepts is a minute fraction of that total output. By utilizing a tiny fraction of that minute fraction, significant beneficial changes to the structure of energy production and distribution could be realized.
Sept 28th
