Green Building

Taipei 101 To Be World's Tallest Green Building

inhabitat.com | Bridgette Meinhold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


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...

Why U.S. Buildings Are Leaking a Mixture of Money and Carbon (& What Congress Can Do About It)

Emma Stewart, Ph.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


Emma Stewart, Ph.D.

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.

The Greenest Building

Paula Wallace | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Paula Wallace

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.

Big Little Green Idea

Richard Seireeni | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


Richard Seireeni

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?

Solar Decathlon: The Competition For The Best Solar-Powered House (PHOTOS)

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...

A Zero Energy Home for All Americans: Ed Pollock Promotes Builders Challenge at EEBA Conference

Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver


Laura A. Hutchings

The Department of Energy came to Denver this week, promoting its Builders Challenge initiative, which seeks to promote affordable, zero energy homes f...

Green News Report - October 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...

One Stop Shopping for Greening Your Home: Green Depot Has It All

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green


Marissa Bronfman

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.

Eco Skyscrapers: Green Architecture Reaches For The Sky

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...

A Win-Win for Energy Efficiency and Jobs

Matt Petersen | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green


Matt Petersen

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 Durst Family Rebuilds

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...

New Orleans' Green Makeover

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 ...

Scale, Scale, Scale

Carl Pope | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green


Carl Pope

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.

Green News Report - July 21, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!

NYC's Greenest Buildings (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

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 ...

MIT Developing Concrete That Lasts for 16,000 Years

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...

Sears Tower Getting $350M Green Overhaul, New Hotel

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...

Gaza's Mud Homes Build Hope

Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World


Salena Tramel

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.

Vertical Vegetecture: Urban Life Plus Farming Equals Cool Design

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...

Green Living Set to Thrive in Ravenswood Manor

Greg Boose | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago


Greg Boose

Green Door Development have put the finishing touches on a six-bedroom, 4,800 square-foot sustainable yin to Blago's nearby cloudy yang.

Apartment Building Associations Promoting Energy Inefficiency?

A. Siegel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green


A. Siegel

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.

Never Mind Google Streetview... We Need Google "Heat" View

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green


Gavin D. J. Harper

Google, you've developed a fantastic and sophisticated engine for processing imagery; can we please borrow it to save the world?

Cow Dung Bricks: Indonesia's Greener Building Solution

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...

House Approves $6.4 Billion For Green Schools

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...

Anyone Listening? -- My Green Home Building Experience

Tom Schey | Posted 05.13.2009 | Green


Tom Schey

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.