Taipei 101 To Be World's Tallest Green Building
Taipei 101, famous for being one of the world's tallest buildings, is set to get some major eco-upgrades in an effort to save money, reduce its impact...
Taipei 101, famous for being one of the world's tallest buildings, is set to get some major eco-upgrades in an effort to save money, reduce its impact...
Emma Stewart, Ph.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Congress is on the right track in setting higher standards for buildings' energy performance. With the right policy mechanisms, we can have far fewer leaks, and a lot more money in our pockets.
Paula Wallace | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
There's a lot of talk about sustainability these days, and that's a good thing. It's good to grab the low-hanging fruit, like hybrid cars, community gardens, and low-flow plumbing. But real sustainability is systemic and seismic.
Richard Seireeni | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
What if home designers added a 'dry room' to their plans -- a place where the furnace, water heater (or tankless water heater) and washer/dryer could live together along with built-in lines or racks for drying clothes?
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green
University teams from around the world are busy constructing sustainable houses at this year's U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition...
Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
The Department of Energy came to Denver this week, promoting its Builders Challenge initiative, which seeks to promote affordable, zero energy homes f...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green
Find out how Sarah Beatty, a determined new green business woman, has earned Green Depot's moniker as America's leading one-stop shop for building solutions.
WebEcoist | Steph | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green
With a burgeoning global population that has ever-growing needs for both food and housing, many architects are looking up for sustainable solutions th...
Matt Petersen | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
By developing a comprehensive plan to retrofit our homes and offices we can put thousands of people back to work and boost local economies.
The New York Observer | Jotham Sederstrom | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York
The Durst Organization, one of the city's oldest family-run real estate concerns, is in a state of transition. Co-president and chairman Douglas Durst...
TIME | Bryan Walsh Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009 | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Sustainable development groups that range from the international nonprofit Global Green to earth-friendly celebrities like Brad Pitt descended on New ...
Carl Pope | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
When you hear a good clean-energy idea suggested, and someone else recommends doing half of it, be suspicious. When building a new energy economy, getting to scale requires efficiency, not moderation.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!
The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 09.08.2009 | New York
New York doesn't get much credit as an environmental oasis, but the city is a leader when it comes to green buildings. From low-income housing in the ...
inhabitat.com | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green
The use of this new ultra high density concrete will have enormous environmental implications, given its ability to deliver lighter, stronger structur...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 07.25.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels will join the pair of antennas atop the Sears Tower's staggered rooftops, said building o...
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Not only are some of the ideas coming out of Gaza extremely creative, but they also present a modern twist on working with indigenous knowledge and the environment.
dornob | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
In increasingly dense urban areas, sometimes the only way to build is up. And with a movement to grow more food locally and to add more green to our u...
Greg Boose | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago
Green Door Development have put the finishing touches on a six-bedroom, 4,800 square-foot sustainable yin to Blago's nearby cloudy yang.
A. Siegel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
Those struggling to delay action to turn the tides on Global Warming's rising seas come from many angles and bring to the table many truthiness-laden arguments.
Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green
Google, you've developed a fantastic and sophisticated engine for processing imagery; can we please borrow it to save the world?
Springwise | Richard Friedman | May 22, 2009 8:59 PM | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green
The Indonesian organization was set up earlier this year to tackle the problem of excessive waste in farming areas. From this, the ecological and econ...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a multiyear school construction bill with the ambitious goals of producing hundreds of thousands of jo...
Tom Schey | Posted 05.13.2009 | Green
We will come out of this economic mess, but the environment does not need to be on hold. At least for the time being, we should incentivize the heck out of people's buying decisions.
inhabitat.com | Bridgette Meinhold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green