A great graphic explanation of...

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How a Living Building Comes To Life

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According to Allison Arieff, P...

May 24, 2013 by

Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on modern prefab …

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Green Building fights back aga...

May 8, 2013 by

[Translate]   Lloyd Alter Design / Green Architecture May 3, 2013 Canadian WWII poster/Public Domain Green building has been...

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Nice Shades: BIQ Building is p...

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Green eyeshades work the same way for buildings as they do for accountants,…

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12 year old Manhattan Museum t...

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In the UK there is the Rubble Club, “an organisation to remember buildings demolished…

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Stunning prefab houses by Clae...

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Designboom shows a new line of prefabricated houses designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune..

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Are architects going overboard...

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It’s the rendering that launched a thousand blog posts,..

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“People still don’...

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Speaking at a sustainability and design conference in Atlanta, LEED pioneer Rob Watson explains..

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Historic modern house renovate...

Mar 4, 2013 by

A mantra here is that “the greenest building is the one already standing.”

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Our buildings, ourselves:

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Editor in Chief Meg O’Neill used to say that one shouldn’t try to put too many concepts into one post..

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Researchers Design a Wet and M...

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Green walls are a paradox; traditionally, architects design buildings to shed water,…

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Green Building Megatrends for ...

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Nate Berg called Jerry Yudelson the “godfather of green building” in Wired.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab...

Dec 27, 2012 by

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a.k.a. Berkeley Lab, …

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BuildingGreen’s Top Ten ...

Dec 5, 2012 by

The BuildingGreen Top Ten Products awards remind me of the Oscars.

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If we build it right, they (em...

Dec 4, 2012 by

Once we’re thinking differently about our streets, we need to start thinking differently about our buildings…

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Rebuilding Cities After Sandy:...

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As negotiators in Doha move toward a new global climate agreement this week..

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Rick Fedrizzi Defends LEED, At...

Nov 28, 2012 by

The US Green Building Council’s LEED certification is under attack.

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Witold Rybczynski On The Housi...

Nov 26, 2012 by

Everybody is excited about the apparent rebound in the housing market in the US…

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Growing Urban Forests: The Sec...

Nov 21, 2012 by

From our sustainable landscape series..

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The SEED (Sustainable Educatio...

Nov 19, 2012 by

What if every child had access to a sheltered, inspiring learning space?

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Siemens Headquarters to be the...

Nov 19, 2012 by

The Siemens Headquarters by architects Sheppard Robson in Masdar City..

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The Crystal is a Super Sustain...

Nov 9, 2012 by

Welcome to the Crystal, an inter-active museum about sustainability and cities.

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Ottawa Condo Is A Model For Gr...

Nov 9, 2012 by

Many suburban main streets are filled with a mix of one and two storey retail…

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Katrina-damaged neighborhood i...

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There’s been a lot of talk since Sandy passed through about rebuilding better…

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Living Homes Introduces New LE...

Nov 1, 2012 by

The green modern prefab industry will never be able to deliver a product as cheaply as the conventional stick builders in the ‘burbs..

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Thermal Mass, Careful Siting a...

Nov 1, 2012 by

Architect and educator Larry Speck writes “Increasingly, I’m more interested in what architecture does than just what it is.”

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Hurricane Sandy changes the tr...

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The profession of design is about to drastically change.

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Building a 500 sq ft green hom...

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[Translate] One Man 500 Square Feet and a...

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The government finally figures...

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Without question, residential rooftop solar is a boon: economically, environmentally, aesthetically (if you’re into that sci-fi thing).

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How green is LEED anyway?

Oct 28, 2012 by

Between 2010 and 2012, the number of LEED-certified buildings worldwide has nearly doubled. Good green news, right?

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