Outdoor outfitter The North Face is opening a new eco-friendly store in a historic, nearly 100-year-old building in Boise's Central Business District.

A new study from McGraw-Hill Construction says the potential for continued growth in the green building market is huge and projects a possible tripling in the value of eco-friendly construction starts to reach as much as $140 billion.

On the eve of its seventh annual international conference, the U.S. Green Building Council announced that its upgraded certification program for commercial buildings known as LEED 2009 has passed member balloting and will take effect next year.

The TreePeople Conference Center in Los Angeles, The Weather Channel's HD studio in Atlanta and the Hastings Public Library in Michigan are among the highly rated green structures to receive recognition from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Wells Fargo & Company has doubled its commitment to high performance, LEED-certified buildings in the past 19 months, bringing its total financing of green structures to more than $2 billion, the firm said today.

As winter approaches, leaders at K-12 schools can learn how to reduce their campus energy costs in a series of webinars devised by the U.S. Green Building Council in partnership with Senator Hillary Clinton and with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

USA-ISSA, the leading trade association for the cleaning industry, joins a roster of organizations being honored for their work related to the Safer Detergents Stewardship Initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Design for the Environment Program.

Saint Paul's new police station exceeded project expectations for green building and was awarded a LEED Gold rating — a first among the city's public buildings and among the police stations in Minnesota.