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West Coast Green Moves to Silicon Valley

San Jose, CA — West Coast Green, the world’s largest residential green building conference, is moving to San Jose. West Coast Green 2008, which will take place at the San Jose Convention Center from September 25-27, offers over 100 presenters, 380 exhibitors, and is expected to attract more than 13,000 attendees.

The partnership between the City of San Jose and West Coast Green recognizes San Jose’s Green Vision, and supports West Coast Green’s expansion to showcase innovative, green technologies. Held in past years at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, event organizers cite the Silicon Valley’s “fresh thinking and innovative culture” for their motivation to change venues.

 The partnership between the City of San Jose and the nation’s premier residential green building event highlights a commitment to support widespread change through innovative green technologies. In line with West Coast Green’s goal to facilitate positive impact within the building industry --a large contributor to global warming— the City’s Green Vision sets a goal for building or retrofitting 50 million square feet of green buildings in the next 15 years.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The West Coast Green Conference & Expo today announced facts and figures for its 2007 event, held September 20-22nd at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco.

Size and Scope: 10,762 people, including over 300 journalists, registered for last weekend's event, making it the largest and most well documented residential green building conference in history. Registration records show attendees from 47 U.S. states as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Luxemburg, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzerland, Taiwan and Spain.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Steven Johnson, American Institute of Architects President RK Stewart, and Building Materials Reuse Association President Brad Guy will co-host the Lifecycle Building Challenge awards ceremony at the West Coast Green Conference, September 20th in San Francisco.

The Lifecycle Building Challenge, a national design competition, promotes building material reuse and seeks to reduce construction and demolition debris while simultaneously encouraging energy conservation. Johnson, Stewart, and Guy will present the awards for this competition at a special event on Thursday, September 20th from 12:30 - 1:30 pm in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium as part of the West Coast Green Residential Building Conference & Expo.

The awards ceremony will include the U.S. EPA Administrator's welcoming remarks and a video of the winning student and professional entries from across the nation.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - RK Stewart, President of the American Institute of Architects will be honoring and awarding top prize winners for the Royal Institute of British Architects-USA international competition "Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance" at this weekend's West Coast Green Residential Building Conference and Expo held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco open from September 20 to September 22, 2007.

The Building A Sustainable World Competition Awards Ceremony as well as Sustainable Practices Forum will be held in Larkin Hall at 12.30 p.m. through 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, September 22.

The competition attracted 65 registrations from 18 different countries, encompassing over 200 partici-pants, either as individuals or in multi-disciplinary teams. It challenged participants to develop concepts for healthy, vibrant communities designed to address climate change and reverse, rather than add to, en-vironmental damage. Each entry tackled environmental and social challenges of enormous scope and offered engaging, inspiring solutions.

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As David says, “We can only have a vibrant successful project if the surrounding community is thriving, healthy, and self-sufficient, today and well in to the future." Part of that success means working hard to ensure environmental quality: water, air, and food. Of course they matter to local residents and they matter to the Playa Viva team. A parting thought about green lodging in general.

"Imagine if every ‘green’ hotel in the US was actively working to revitalize inner city neighborhoods, developing community gardens so low-income people had access to healthy food, supporting alternatives to incineration, and supporting local small businesses. That’s what Playa Viva is doing on the beach in Mexico and that’s what travel with ethics is all about.”

L´entreprise, active sur le marché indien depuis novembre dernier, installe ses écrans dans les ascenseurs d´immeubles commerciaux, d´immeubles de bureaux et de complexes résidentiels.

Le partenaire technique d´ENN est Hélius, fraichement racheté par Hugues.

Outre l´Inde, le groupe pourrait investir les marchés du Moyen-Orient et Singapour avant la fin 2008.

This article posted on the Environmental News Network caught our eye after all the recent news about green technology in Israel.

The Brownsville venture got fast-tracked during a period of alarming drought and rapid population growth. From 1990 to 2000, the Brownsville area grew 43 percent to 372,000 people, and the population is expected to approach 500,000 by 2020.

Every drop of the Rio Grande, the river shared by Texas and Mexico, is already accounted for. A plant that purifies brackish groundwater provides enough water to meet about one-fourth of Brownsville's current peak demand, but groundwater may not last through a long-term drought.

Desalination is "part of the tools in the toolbox" of 4,500 water management strategies in the state's water plan, Texas Water Development Board spokeswoman Carla Daws said.

"We should never become complacent because of the history of our state having repeated droughts," she said.

And they mention Israel, too, among the countries pursuing this technology:

About two-thirds of the world's desalinated water is produced in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and North Africa. Perth, Australia, is looking to meet a third of its fresh water demand by removing salt from sea water.

In March, Israel showed off its plant at the Mediterranean port of Ashkelon that can process 87 million gallons of water a day. Singapore opened a sea water desalination plant in 2005 hoping it will meet at least 10 percent of its water needs. Two months ago, General Electric Co. announced a $220 million contract to build a plant in South Africa.

In other news from BoingBoing, you probably better lay off drinking bottled water from Fiji.. or maybe lay drinking bottled water altogether.