Sustainable Design

Archi-future: 13 Green Buildings That Will Blow Your Mind (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Sustainable Design, Green Architecture, Bslide-Dasani, Bjarke Ingels, Sustainable Architecture, Slideexpand, Green Design, Future Eco Building, Green-Technology, Green News

As architects continue to envision the utopian cities of the future, one thing is certain: innovation means sustainability. In the midst of a globa...

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WATCH: Herding Goats In The City

Daniel Klein | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Daniel Klein, Sustainable Design, Mirra Fine, Burundi, Louisville, Kentucky, Perennial Plate, Goats, Refugee, Food News
Daniel Klein

It's not often that you look out your suburban backyard to find a man herding goats, but that is what people in one neighborhood in Louisville experie...

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WATCH: Building A Sustainable World

Jonathan Kirby | Posted 04.19.2012

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Jonathan Kirby

How would you approach manufacturing today considering the numerous challenges we face in creating a more sustainable world? In the midst of a global water crisis, we asked the question: what would happen if we took the water out of our jeans manufacturing process?

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The State of Sustainability in America -- Experts Weigh In...

Michael P. Owens | Posted 05.02.2012

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Michael P. Owens

I asked top green business executives, experts and political leaders, who are speaking at the 2012 Sustainable Operations Summit in NYC, what they think is most encouraging as well as what they think is most frustrating about the state of sustainability.

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Top 3 Sustainable Design Competitions of 2012

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Sustainable Materials, IOU Project, Sustainable Design Competition, Sustainable Design, Madras, Suzy Amis Cameron, Livia Firth, Ecofashion Contest, Red Carpet Green Dress, Ecofashion Competition, Summer Rayne Oakes, DIY With IOU, Green Carpet Challenge, source4style, Style News
Summer Rayne Oakes

In just a decade, sustainable design has gone from obscurity to the international spotlight. This year, a series of sustainable design competitions across the globe are set to keep it front and center.

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Inside A Designer Off-Grid 'Micro Home' (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Micro House, Sustainable Design, Micro Home for Sale, Video, Denver News, Denver Real Estate, Glenn Grassi, Micro-Home, Green Building, Salvaged Material Home Building, Real Estate, Denver News

You know what they say: "Home is where the [trailer] is." Well.. that may not be the exact phrasing, but the adage is certainly true for Glenn Grassi...

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Sustainability and Behavioral Change

Soren Petersen | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Environment, Creativity, Sustainability, Social Change, Profits, Behavior, Sustainable Living, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Agriculture, Green News
Soren Petersen

Imagine how the creation of multiple small and large clever solutions can impact everyday user behaviors and alter them in ways that ultimately help our world.

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How Re-Fueling Your Car Can Build Equity in Your Home

Ben Uyeda | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: House, Green Technology, Design, Architecture, Green Development, Green Living, Green Energy, Green Homes, Green Design, Green Home, Sustainable Design, Affordable Housing, Solar Energy, Solar Panels, Sustainability, Solar Power, Green News
Ben Uyeda

2011-10-02-Screenshot20111002at4.56.14PM.jpg If you are one of the typical Americans who drives about 40 miles a day, then you should consider an atypical scenario if you happen to be planning on building a new home.

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Blessed Bounty: Reflections on the Sustainable Design Competition

Matt Petersen | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Sustainable Design, Green Architecture, Holy Cross Project, Sustainability, Global Green USA, Rebuilding New Orleans, Global Green, Impact News
Matt Petersen

At the outset of my journey to help rebuild New Orleans green in early September 2005, many thought I was crazy to think I could help this city that was so deeply devastated.

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Design for a Living World: Top Designers Make Sustainability Stylish

Mark Tercek | Posted 10.10.2011

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Mark Tercek

2011-08-10-Screenshot20110810at3.26.43PM.jpg These creations help us consider where our products come from, how they are made and the impact they have on our planet.

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The Great Downsizing Debate Continues

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 09.18.2011

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Jennifer Schwab

What is an appropriate number of square feet per person to live comfortably yet sustainably?

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This Is A Hotel

Adel Zakout | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Architecture, Holidays, Hotels, Travel, Summer, Bird's Nest, Zaha Hadid, Sustainable Design, Sustanability, Jean Nouvel, Juvet Hotel, Paris, Arts News
Adel Zakout

Architecturally, hotels are a cocktail of residential and public typologies that have a peculiar balance of privacy combined with social amenity. Put ...

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Downsizing -- A Thousand Square Feet Per Person, A New American Standard

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Architecture, Sustainable Design, Jenny Lazar, Dwell, Eco Housing, Sustainable Architecture, Downsizing, SierraClubGreenHome.Com, Inhabitat, Sierra Club Green Home, Healthier Greener Home, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

I know many successful boomers who are now moping around their 8 to 12,000-foot monuments to capitalism. But has America's long-standing love affair with this type of -- not very green -- home finally run its course?

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Lucas Kavner

Creating The Most Sustainable Homes In America

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Sustainable Design, California, Livinghomes, Steve Glenn, James Rouse, Ray Kappe, Greatest Person of the Day, Good News, Sustainable Homes, Environmental Issues, Green Homes, Community Development, Impact News

What do you do when you desperately want to be an architect, but you realize you kind of -- for lack of a better word -- suck at it? Raised by a si...

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Top 10 Smartest Green Buildings

Tom Mallory | Posted 07.03.2011

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Tom Mallory

Architecture of truly green buildings must incorporate a range of professionals including economists, biologists, chemists, and a range of social-science experts such as demographers, anthropologists and geographers.

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Can Green Design Be Dumb?

Ben Uyeda | Posted 06.26.2011

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Ben Uyeda

Can green design be dumb design? The answer is sometimes, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. If our most creative people were only trying ration...

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Will Guzzardi

Industrial Corridor In Pilsen Becoming Cutting-Edge 'Green Street'

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Streetscaping, Sustainable Design, Pilsen, Urban Planning, Chicago, Sustainability, Green Street, Danny Solis, Urban Design, Illinois, Cermak Blue Island Streetscaping, Chicago News

Heading west from the Dan Ryan Expressway on the near South Side of Chicago, Cermak Road is a wide, industrial street, lined on its south side with wa...

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Urbanism Chasing Utopia

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 06.11.2011

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Charles R. Wolfe

Generally speaking, the description of any Utopia that involves many details is apt to be an unconvincing way to present a principle which can be appl...

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Fine Art Surfboards. Made From Trash.

Peter Hanlon | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Recycling, Plastic, Sustainable Design, Rhode Island, Oceans, Surfboards, Beach Trash, Surfing, Green News
Peter Hanlon

Surfboards are usually made from a highly toxic combination of petrochemicals. This long-known dirty little surfing secret has inspired some enterprising members of the surfing industry to make more sustainable choices.

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Are Designers Neglecting Climate Change in Favor of Holistic Sustainability?

Ben Uyeda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Uyeda

Is pursuing holistic considerations of sustainability compromising the speed at which the design community addresses carbon emissions and climate change?

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How to Reclaim Urban Spaces to Create Community-Oriented Places

Ryan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ryan Brown

After highlighting the key ingredients that help sustain the "local living economy" in Bellingham during a recession, the Journey of Action team traveled to Portland, Ore., a truly progressive, community-centric city.

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Impossible Architecture: A Review of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Guy Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Guy Horton

2010-11-15-iwanbaan.jpg Events like the Holocaust simply overpower the present. For this reason, perhaps, there exist physical places to anchor those memories, so they can be put somewhere.

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Educating a Nation: A Job for Real Superheroes (VIDEO)

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Sustainable Design, Education, Waiting for Superman, Sociology, Civics, Sustainability, Ford Motor Company, Education Reform, W. Edwards Deming, Ford, Education News
Steven G. Brant

America needs more Superheroes, because it's going to take a lot of us to keep America from completely going over to the "Darkseid".

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At Home in Manhattan: Park51 as Global Architecture

Guy Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Religion, Urban Design, Sustainable Design, park51, New York Architecture, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Arts News
Guy Horton

2010-10-11-park51slim.jpgThe most recent conceptual images of Park51 compellingly show a building that, if built, could be positioned amongst some of the finest examples of global architecture.

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Green News Report: October 7, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Design, United Kingdom, West Virginia, Epa, Factory Farms, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, China, Federal Trade Commission, Coal, European Central Bank, Colony Collapse Disorder, Big Oil, Greenwashing, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Joe Manchin, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Hungary, Global Warming, Bp, Bees, Environmentalists, Biofuels, Biogas, Corn, Clean Air Act, Appalachia, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, Honeybees, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Unfccc, Ftc, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hungarian ...

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