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By integrating natural resource, human health, and community concerns into building design and construction, architects and designers can create buildings that are cleaner, healthier for occupants and the environment, and which deplete fewer resources.
- Cynthia Rosenzweig, a world-renowned urban climate change expert, explains what businesses and cities can do to help each other prepare for the threats posed by the warming planet.
- The co-founder of Artists for Humanity talks about training in the arts, and all it entails in terms of community, responsibility and hard work, helps to set them up as future leaders of a more...
- The National Park Service is cutting energy consumption for lighting on the National Mall by as much as 65 percent with the retrofit of 174 street lamps....
- A new report shows that U.S. cities can save billions in costs -- while cleaning waterways and green neighborhoods -- by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure.
- The U.S. Green Building Council unveils its tally of the states with the highest concentration of LEED-rated buildings per capita based on certifications in the past year....
- Our continuing look at the biggest trends in sustainable business in 2012 finds that new technologies and strong financial incentives are raising the profile of what have long been the least sexy of...
- The U.S. Green Building Council, along with HOK as the pro-bono design partner, have been working to design and construct Project Haiti, a LEED Platinum orphanage and children's center in Port au......
- Last week, we reported that Jones Lang LaSalle surpassed its goal of having 1,000 certified sustainability professionals on its books. The USGBC has since told us which companies have the most LEED......
- Design teams that consider the impacts of a building across its lifetime can help their clients make choices on materials, structural elements and systems that will reduce operations and......
- The Korean automaker's US operations are working with the Gensler architectural firm on a design for a new headquarters complex that's to be built to LEED-Gold standards in Southern......
- The worldwide movement toward sustainability has made significant progress over the past half-dozen years. Now, sustainable development is entering a new phase, and here are the trends to watch for......
- Though the French Quarter and Bourbon Street are booming, as much as 40 percent of eastern New Orleans is vacant. Six years after Katrina, work continues to revive the community....
- With the coming new year, eight U.S. cities will get free help from sustainable building and development experts who'll take a fresh look at the towns through a green lens. ...
- Has your building become fat and lazy? Here are retrofit tips on how to turn that energy hog into an efficient, high-performer....
- The third-oldest federal building Washington, D.C., has earned gold-level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council....
- The third year of the company's efforts shows further savings and growth as it develops ways to manage energy use across large portfolios of buildings.
- As of this month, the more than 3,750 properties that are part of Hilton Worldwide are participating in the company's LightStay sustainability management program. Christopher Corpuel, Hitlon's green......
- Amidst the bleakest economy in memory, the construction industry in the US needs all the good news it can get. Fortunately, there have been a couple glimmers of hope in recent weeks....
- The Merced County jail and a nearby juvenile justice facility in California's Central Valley are expected to draw about 70 percent of their electricity from a new 1.4 megawatt solar farm that fans......
- The US Green Building Council has just awarded the first group of organizations that have gone above and beyond in creating green learning environments -- and pushing the market for green buildings......
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The latest edition of the ranking of IT companies' efforts to reduce their own energy......- San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee opens the 2012 GreenBiz Forum by talking about how the city is......
- Matt Rogers, Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Nest Labs tells how his......
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