This is the lighting design concept that considers the natural sleep and wake cycles of the human body.
What is Circadian Lighting Design? BONUS: Name the building rating system that includes this concept as a metric.
100
The name of the marketing term used to describe overblown environmental claims.
What is Greenwashing?
100
Effectively used daylighting sonotubes to evenly transmit light through its roof, allowing partial or complete shutdown of the artificial lighting system, and helped contribute to its LEED Silver status.
What is Coca Cola Distribution Center
100
The fastest growing source of renewable energy.
What is wind power?
100
The most widely used certification system for green and sustainable buildings.
What is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)?
200
Where sustainability aims to put the world back into balance, this design principle looks for ways to manage an imbalanced world. Highly necessary in areas prone to natural disasters.
What is resilient design?
200
The activity of growing plants and harvesting water from the tops of buildings.
What is a green roof?
200
This upstate New York project met LEED Silver standards largely through the use of geothermal heat pumps, energy recovery units, a direct digital control system, and improved building thermal performance.
What is SUNY Cortland Studio West?
200
The mechanism/technology that converts sunlight directly to electricity?
What is Photovoltaics (PV)?
200
This organization promote responsible management of the world’s forests.
What is the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)?
300
In this passive strategy, cool air is sucked in through low inlet openings and hotter exhaust air escapes through high outlet openings.
What is stack ventilation?
300
Excess carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere traps the sun's energy close to planet earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
Earning the New Good Neighbor Award in 2011 for its sustainable features after its completion, this facility generates 1,197MWh of electricity per year from a roof mounted PV array that feeds power to both its newly constructed warehouse and an adjacent existing office building.
What is STS Distribution Center?
300
The use of hot underground waters to provide an energy source.
What is geothermal?
300
Vouchers that you automatically earn for every 1 megawatt-hour of solar electricity created, known as a “Green Tag”
What is an SREC (Solar Renewable Energy Certificate)?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
Studies have shown that, in the Northern hemisphere, solar panels should be oriented somewhere between these two cardinal directions to maximize energy production.
What is South and West?
400
Another term for eco-labeling.
What is a green seal?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Expected to offset 80% of its yearly electrical demand, this day school in Morris Country recently completed installation of a 178 kw photovoltaic array.
What is the Gottesman RTW Academy?
400
Harnessing ocean waves or rushing waters to produce energy to convert to electricity.
What is hydropower?
400
Buildings consume this percentage of all the energy produced in the US, and emit this percentage of CO2. (Get within 10 of both).
What is 48% and 45%?
500
This device, part of a rainwater catchment system, diverts the initial flow of water from the catchment surface away from the storage tank to minimize contamination.
What is a first flush diverter?
500
This US-based organization provides certification and credentialing in the green business and sustainability industry (provide full name).
What is Green Business Certification Inc.?
500
When complete, this project will have the capacity to grow up to 2 million pounds of baby leafy greens and herbs per year and will offer 75 times more productivity per square foot annually than a traditional field farm.
What is Aerofarms?
500
Two means to generate energy based on harnessing /using plants.