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IES runs a Cycle to Work scheme, I have taken the opportunity to buy two bikes through the scheme and I now cycle to work pretty much every day.  After getting hit riding to work on my bike by a white van the one thing that pretty much everyone asked me is why don’t you [...]

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Tags:Australia, cycle to work, cycling, cycling helmet, IES, safety

Reading Pete’s blog (Plastic Bags! on 18 May this year), I was interested to note his local green group planned to introduce a public bike program.  Having recently visited Amsterdam earlier this year (sadly no photographic evidence is available) I was really impressed (and quite envious) of the public transport links around the city where [...]

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Tags:Art, Central Station, cycling, IES, NVA, white bikes

When you think of green building in the last ten years, you think primarily of two verticals - housing and office space. So there is one massive vertical missing in the equation - retail.
Retail development has traditionally been the slowest to warm up to the whole concept of green building, but according to a [...]

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Tags:Building, green retail construction, housing, LEED, LEED Certification, office

(image via totalAldo photostream under Creative Commons)
By now, there should be little debate over whether going green can save you plenty of money in the short term, especially in the commercial real estate market.  Whether going green is truly the wisest long-term financial decision has been the subject of debate for some time.  Well, it [...]

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Tags:Building, Green Building, LEED, real estate, saving money