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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. Moreover, a well-designed “green” building can be cheaper to build and operate over the building’s lifetime.
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How are cities dealing with the potentially toxic runoff from normal rainfall? It turns out that some cities are much more forward-thinking than others....
The "Rooftops to Rivers II" report looks at how cities use smart infrastructure to manage polluted stormwater runoff....
GreenBiz.com's fourth annual Green Buildings Market & Impact report finds continued growth in certified green buildings, especially overseas, as the business benefits of green buildings become......
Just how well are LEED-certified buildings doing in making real-world environmental and energy improvements?...
While American media and pundits are bemoaning our inability to create any jobs or compete on green technologies, Asian countries are putting to work -- with great results -- the same ideas that......
What's the potential of the cloud to change building design? A recent webcast offered a high-level view of the opportunities, current struggles and ways in which vendors are trying to......
Autodesk's director of sustainability talks about how software can transform the depth and scope of the design space, the importance of forging strategic partnerships and how the company strives......
Despite facing anemic conditions in its two key markets, Johnson Controls earned record revenues in its 2011 fiscal year, and expects green to continue to drive growth next year and beyond....
The second full day of the 2011 Greenbuild conference brought a steady flow of news, with Marriott Hotels earning LEED volume certification for three of its brands, a challenge to the USGBC's 2012......
A pilot project on the company's Redmond campus will save an estimated $1 million per year in energy use, and pay for itself in less than 18 months, one key element of its overall sustainability......
Conservación & Desarrollo (C&D), a Chilean consulting firm, partnered with San Francisco-based Climate Earth to compute what they believe to be the first life cycle environmental......
The first day of the world's biggest green building event brought out more news from more companies and organizations than could conceivably be covered. Here are some of today's highlights....
The move is expected to be particularly useful to builders of greener structures and creators of more eco-friendly products....
The $12-million-dollar price tag for the CBECS building energy-efficiency survey is not even a drop in the bucket of the federal budget, but there's a good chance Congress won't fund it. Is there......
In addition to hiring as many women construction workers as possible to build its new green headquarters, Avon has committed to getting green certification for all of its new facilities. Here's......
Putting solar on new residential buildings is a win-win-win situation, but not an easy one to achieve: One development outside of Sacramento, Calif., shows how builders, utilities and cleantech......
Although a fraud lawsuit against the U.S. Green Building Council was dismissed with prejudice this week, the larger issues of whether green buildings save enough energy and money to live up to......
GE unveils a new $48-million data center that serves its global appliances and lighting business.
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Passive buildings -- which use non-mechanical methods of heating and cooling and use 80 percent less energy than "active" buildings -- are a shining example of a great green idea that......
Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to bring about sweeping culture change is to jettison old ways and jolt the existing culture into a new reality. Management experts offer a different......
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