Green Building Design Competition Kicks Off

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and partners are inviting design professionals and students nationwide to submit designs and ideas by July 31 for the 2nd annual Lifecycle Building Challenge. “The competition seeks designs that facilitate building material adaptation and reuse, minimize waste, and cut greenhouse gas emissions.”

SFO Terminal to be Revived with Green

Terminal 2 at the San Francisco International Airport has been left vacant for the past six years because a reduction in air travel after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 lead to a postponement of a major renovation. Now, it’s time for the terminal to be revitalized and officials say it will be […]

Concerns over Cistern Use in New Orleans Project

Thanks to efforts of Global Green USA, Brad Pitt and the Home Depot Foundation, homes in the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans, are being revitalized with high performance green building strategies. One of those strategies is being questioned by the Louisiana Department of Health. That is the use of water from cisterns […]

Green Building Survey Ranks Top Homebuilders

A study conducted by Calvert, a mutual fund company that promotes socially-responsible investing, and Boston College’s Institute for Responsible Investment, ranks the top 13 publicly-traded homebuilders. It reveals the slow, but improving, progress being made in the green building movement here in the United States.

Smart Home Exhibit To Open its Doors

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, one of the largest science museums in the world, will be exhibiting a “Smart Home: Green + Wired” as part of its 75th anniversary celebration.
Visitors can tour the innovative, modular 2500 sq ft home and gardens beginning May 8 through January 4, 2009. Green features include: […]

Off-the-Grid Homes Around the Globe

How great would it be to not have to pay utility bills? Well, homes that are “off the grid” do just that by relying on renewable energy sources like solar and wind power.
Treehugger recently profiled five examples of such innovative homes. To minimize their carbon footprint, the homes take advantage of passive solar […]

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