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The following information was provided to The Progress-Index by the Chesterfield County Police Department. - Daniel J. Hoover, 24, of the 12900 block of Crescent Green, was charged with violate condition of release on Sept. 8.
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Young men paint a pre-Gadhafi Libyan flag -- red, green and black stripes, white crescent and star -- on the embankment of a highway overpass. They add the words "Free Libya" and "February 17," the day when the uprising began against Moammar Gadhafi's 41-year rule.
It goes by a variety of names: the new building, the Mazria building (after the architects Mazria, Odem and Dzurec of Santa Fe - - try saying that three times fast), the shelled building, the multi- purpose classroom building. The New Mexico Solar Energy Association recently called it "... the transition to a new paradigm in large public assembly buildings wherein climate is no longer ignored and the need to minimize our fossil fuel use is a given. It's the big green crescent moon of a building with the sawtooth roof that dominates the south face of the UNM-Taos Klauer campus. What's important about it is that it is the visionary work of the current and past UNM-Taos administrations, and it has been shut down in mid-construction for nearly two years.
Green has been the buzz in New Orleans building since Hurricane Katrina wiped out much of the existing housing stock and shined a new spotlight on the city's ecological vulnerability. Despite growing interest, one significant impediment to green building locally has historically been a dearth of green building supplies, an issue highlighted in a recent Sierra Club report on green building in the Crescent City.
Rising out of a Gambrills field is the future of Islam in Anne Arundel County. On one side of narrow Brandy Farms Lane is Calvary Temple Church, with a huge white cross on its brick side. On the other is Makkah Learning Center, a one-story green building with a white crescent- topped minaret.
Opus Northwest Management, AMO, achieved a first for Minnesota when its Crescent Ridge Corporate Center I in Minnetonka, MN, received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) Gold certification for a multi-tenant building from the US Green Building Council. Crescent Ridge Corporate Center I emits 50% less carbon emissions than standard buildings and is the first multi-tenant property in Minnesota to receive LEED-EB. Meanwhile, CB Richard Ellis, AMO has been awarded the US Environmental Protection Agency 2009 Partner of the Year Award for the second year in a row.
KIRKUK, Iraq -- Election posters in Arabic and Kurdish plaster nearly every wall here. Honking carloads of cheering young men wave Kurdish flags of green, red and white stripes and a yellow sun. Blue and white- crescent flags of the Turkman party hang over some streets. Cell phones ring with pre-paid campaign text messages.
Just as Doctor John croons in his tribute to the Crescent City, it's "sweet home, New Orleans" for lifelong resident Robert L. Green Sr. This weekend, he slept on a bed in his own home in the Lower 9th Ward for the first time in the four years since Hurricane Katrina flattened his neighborhood and killed both his mother and infant granddaughter.
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