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GreenStar Homes Makes Green Building Show Its Work

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An open, nonprofit-run home certification standard covering health, efficiency, durability, and carbon across four certification levels.

Why it surfaced

GreenStar publishes all 54 requirements, its manual, and its working checklist for free, whether or not a project seeks certification. The standard turns vague green-building claims into inspected, documented evidence, from ventilation and radon safety to embodied-carbon reductions.

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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.

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