{"id":630,"date":"2010-02-17T20:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2010-03-24T01:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T05:31:46","slug":"olympic-athletes-are-living-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Athletes Are Living Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Angela, THE SUSTAINABLE SCRIBE<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/image4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/image_thumb4.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"205\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> The Millennium Water development on the south bank of False Creek is a 1,100-unit housing project development that will serve as Vancouver\u2019s Olympic athletes\u2019 village, will certainly be environmentally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.ca\/stainless-steel-bottles\/cat_2.html\" target=\"_blank\">sustainable,<\/a> design manager Roger Bayley assures.<\/p>\n<p>The development\u2019s living green initiatives will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A \u201cdistrict energy system\u201d that will sop up residual heat from city sewer pipes to warm water feeding the vein-like capillaries in the development\u2019s ceiling-mounted radiant heating system. Also, in the summer, those same capillary- mat panels can reverse, running cool water, to draw the heat out of homes.<\/li>\n<li>Buildings in the development will feature wider, naturally lit and ventilated corridors and thicker, more deeply insulated exterior walls, and exterior, automatic shading to keep units naturally cool in strong sunshine.<\/li>\n<li>Unseen, drains will siphon rainwater falling on the project\u2019s buildings into basement cisterns that will irrigate its green roofs and gardens in the summer and be enough to flush its toilets in the fall and winter.<a href=\"http:\/\/planetforward.ca\/blog\/living-green-meets-social-sustainability-in-olympic-village-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic athlete&#8217;s village in Vancouver is actually a group of LEED Gold buildings in a former industrial district on a branch of the city&#8217;s bay. When the Olympics are over, the buildings&#8217; 1100 housing units &#8212; some condos, some rentals &#8212; will be occupied as residences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[332,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}