Photo: SWNS.COM/ SWNS via the Guardian

We are, after all, named TreeHugger, and have noted before on TreeHugger and Planet Green that trees are effective and sophisticated cooling

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız visits the Greenpeace office in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.

Images from Infosys powerpoint on green energy initiatives

It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat.

Image: Huffington Post

The New York Times Columnist on the cost of air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan:

Making our country more energy efficient is not some green feel-good thing. Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson, who was Gen.

Images: Green Building Advisor

A Heat Exchanger. Image Source: Shandchem

Dear Pablo: We had a home energy audit and the auditor suggested that we switch our space and water heating from natural gas to electric to become more sustainable.

Photo Credit Sean McGrath

When it comes to green living, Planet Green is the go-to for how-to, and has been beating to death the subject of beating the heat.

Cover, Henry Miller's Air Conditioned Nightmare

Air conditioning is not only an environmental problem, it is also a social problem.

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

Really, when you look at most of the lists of ways to keep cool, you would think that everyone in America lived in a detached house in the 'burbs.

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Back in November at Greenbuild we talked to Starbucks' Corporate Architect Tony Gale about the rollout of their new Global Store Design Strategy.