http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Environment 60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:28 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1319238.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1319238.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:37 EST With shrinking revenues and widening deficits, state lawmakers will be sharpening their budget axes when the Legislature meets in March. Odds are that they'll once again target Florida Forever, the state's widely praised land preservation program. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1155678.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1155678.html Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:00 EDT You're probably familiar with some of the federal government's 2009 incentives for home energy efficiency -- heftier tax credits for solar panels, solar water heaters, geothermal heat pumps, heavy-duty insulation, windows, air conditioning and the like. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1137673.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1137673.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:53 EDT The pursuit of the sea's most fearsome predator remains for many the ultimate fishing thrill, but shark fishing is coming under pressure as shark numbers plummet worldwide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/846750.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/846750.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:47 EST Florida electric companies would have to rely on an increasingly heavy mix of wind, solar and biomass to generate their power over the next 11 years, under a proposed rule state regulators voted to send to the Legislature late Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/844567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/844567.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:52 EST In the deepest of sweeping cuts to environmental programs, Florida lawmakers plan to ax the state's premier land-buying program, Florida Forever. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/568875.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/568875.html Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT With South Florida already setting summer heat records, power bills may set even higher records this summer. But Ken Fields, who lives in a three-bedroom, three-bath house on Miami Beach, has just installed a roof-top photovoltaic system and is dramatically reducing his energy consumption in a first step to going off the grid. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/544713.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/544713.html Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT A switch was pulled and the shelves of equipment murmured softly and turned on the lights. A house in Miami's Bay Heights quietly went off the grid and onto hydrogen power. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/253517.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/253517.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT South-facing small windows and Bahama shutters, light paint and a white roof offer clues to the character of this house within a hammock: It is a ''green'' home that proudly wears a photovoltaic system and thermal water heater on its roof and envelopes a 7,500-gallon cistern within its walls. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228883.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228883.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT Albert Harum-Alvarez, a software designer and consultant, grew up in Kendall and has spent years planning his home among the trees. Now under construction, it will catch the southeast breezes, use a geothermal pump for optional air conditioning, and employ a composting toilet system. Harum-Alvarez believes it's the greenest home in Miami-Dade County. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228890.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228890.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT Carolyn Mitchell, a landscape architect with the architecture and design firm Zyscovich in Miami, started the South Florida chapter of the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council three years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228891.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT In Pompano Beach, the 27 Habitat for Humanity houses built or under construction on Northwest First Court are green, says Mary Lou Bowman Cubbin, architect and director of construction. The homes, designed to save energy costs and water for low-income families, feature double ceilings to cool air conditioning ducts, roof and soffit vents to ventilate attic space and R-30 ceiling insulation, more than the R-19 required by code. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228892.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228892.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT If you are building a home, there are ways to make it energy-efficient: Orient it so the long axis runs east and west. Limit west-facing windows. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221564.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221564.html Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT This is one in a series about living green. Next week, we explore contemporary green homes. Forty years ago, Gwladys and Eugene Scott combined their lives and families and set out to design their dream house: a Japanese-inspired home in a South Florida hammock. It was to be without air conditioning, using salvaged pine beams, and open to the trees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221577.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221577.html Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT Alfred Browning Parker, legendary South Florida architect now living in Gainesville, came back to Miami some months ago to show his work at Miami Dade College. He chose to look back at homes he had designed, built and owned. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221632.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221632.html Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT Half a century made all the difference. We went from designing with the climate to defensively shutting it out while shutting ourselves in, and today we are paying the energy price. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221625.html Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT Living without air conditioning has its challenges, and with experience, Joyce Gann has learned how to do it. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221576.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/221576.html Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT How can you retrofit a concrete block house with few windows to be more resource-conserving? ''It may not be practical to add a porch, but it might be practical to add shade trees on the south and west sides,'' suggests Janet McIlvane with the Florida Solar Energy Center in Cocoa. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/176961.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/176961.html Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:01 EDT Wise use of native plants can go a long way toward reducing outdoor water use while celebrating the place you call home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/133207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/133207.html Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:01 EDT How many times a day do you flush a toilet? How long are your showers? How many loads of laundry do you wash a week? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/133219.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/133219.html Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:01 EDT The secret to highly efficient dishwashers is electronics. Sensors can measure the weight of the dishes and the clarity of the water (to determine how dirty the dishes are), then determine how hot the water must be to clean those dishes.