Christine Ervin

Christine Ervin is a contributor to GreenBiz.com. She speaks, writes and consults on two of the most promising market trends of our time: greening the built environment and clean energy. She also focuses on how these markets are pivotal to tackling what may be the greatest challenge of our times: climate change.

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The Living Building Challenge: How Limits Can Liberate
By Christine Ervin, October 30, 2007
It's time to embrace the abundance that can flow from nature's limits -- starting with caps on greenhouse gas emissions and moving toward a carbon-neutral built environment.
Communicating Climate Change: Getting Beyond the Usual Suspects
By Christine Ervin, September 13, 2007
Even in tourist destinations that are most likely to be altered -- if not destroyed entirely -- by climate change, there is very little action to bring the change dialogue beyond the "usual...
The Human Side of Technology: Reflections on China
By Christine Ervin, July 23, 2007
A recent trip to China highlights just how important the country is for both the global economy and the global environment -- and how technologies and policies are equally important to balance the...
The Mainstreaming of Green Buildings (and Everything Else)
By Christine Ervin, June 10, 2007
As an introduction to Greener World Media's Editor at Large, Christine Ervin, she sat down for an interview to lay out her thoughts on the past, present and future of all things green.
Pressure on LEED: Threat or Boon?
By Christine Ervin, May 24, 2005
Former U.S. Green Building Council president Christine Ervin on what's next for the LEED green building standard