The framing still has not started on the house project. The weather for Calgary today was around -2 C, which is much higher then the seasonal norms. All the material is now on-site except for the warm boards, so we do not expect much more of a delay.
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Great news for television enthusiasts and couch potatoes everywhere: BenQ recently unveiled a new 32-inch LCD TV model that complies with WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronics Equipment) Directives. The WEEE directive encourages reuse, recycling and recovery of (you guessed it) consumer electronics, and became UK law this past summer (it also has teeth elsewhere in the EU). Its main aim is to reduce the amount of WEEE going to landfill (and, really, who wants more WEEE in the garbage?), by requiring all manufacturers and producers to take responsibility for what happens to the products they sell at the end of their service lives. Accompanying the WEEE Directive is the Restriction of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, which restricts the use of certain toxic substances, such as lead, in printed circuit boards. What happens if you don’t help keep WEEE out of the trash? The WEEE Man will haunt you, and nobody wants that. Trust us. The WEEE-compliant TV has a HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) input, a contrast ratio of 800:1, resolution of 1366×768, and a brightness of 500 nits, for anyone who likes to keep track of such statistics, and retails for US $1,339, which isn’t that outrageous in the LCD TV market — BenQ has a non-WEEE-compliant version that goes for $1,299. ::Digi Times via ::Newlaunches.com
Portland based Interface Engineering has published an illustrated guide demonstrating how to achieve Platinum-LEED on conventional building budget in a FREE 48-page book.
This year’s <a href=”http://www.compostmodern.org/index.html
“>Compostmodern design conference is coming up: January 21st in San Francisco. We definitely suggest getting over there if you’re in the vicinity. Compostmodern is a one-day conference pivoting around issues of design and its potential to change the world for the better. There’s an impressive lineup of speakers and the conference will feature an interior space, a cafe, and sustainable wares coordinated by our friends at Branch. If you’re lucky, you could even run into a Treehugger or two in the flesh.
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