As the first weekend of summer nears, the participants in the annual Williamsville Garden Walk are preparing for another stunning display. Dozens of residents are welcome to stroll around the village for free on Saturday, June 26th from 10:00am to 4:00pm and acquire gardening tips. Stop at Village Hall on Saturday to pick up a [...]
The company ZeaChem has begun using the termites’ digestive functions as a model to process biofuels. Zeachem has recently started using microbes found in the guts of termites to help breakdown hard to digest cellulosic feedstock such as switch grass and wood chips into simple sugars. The innovative process first uses acid to break down [...]
Recently at the office we have been having weekly in-house “Lunch and Learns” as we transition from AutoCAD Architecture into Autodesk Revit. Today, listening to an explanation of some of the new features in Revit 2011, my mind began to wander (sorry Melissa), as I began to think about the new capabilities of BIM software [...]
On May 15th, students from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry listened to Richard Fedrizzi, President and CEO of the US Green Building Council, tell the graduating class of 2010, “they will determine the future of humanity.” Fedrizzi further explained that the graduates where the most unique generation of all time simply because [...]
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