The Reel Story Behind Eco-Friendly Lawnmowers

If you’re looking for a more enjoyable lawn-mowing experience, look no further than today’s manual push reel mowers. They’re lightweight, quiet, non-polluting, and better for your grass as they cut like scissors and don’t tear it like rotary power mowers.

The Greening of Los Angeles

In May of last year, the mayor of Los Angeles, announced a ‘Green LA Plan’ which aims to reduce the city’s carbon emissions by 35% below 1990 levels by the year 2030. Reasons include improving air quality and lowering water and energy bills for city inhabitants. Now, Mayor Villaraigosa has signed into law [...]

LA Community College Moving Towards Energy Self-Sufficiency

The Los Angeles Community College District is making strides towards energy self-sufficiency for its nine campuses. It recently revealed four acres of solar panels situated atop a carport which will not only shade the cars of students and faculty, but will generate 1.2 megawatts of electricity per day — half of what’s consumed on [...]

Recycled-Content Carpeting

Americans replace approximately 5 billion pounds of carpet each year and most of it ends up in landfills. Thankfully, numerous companies are seeing the value in recycled carpet fibers (mostly nylon) to create new products, like: Geohay (a substitute for hay bales used on construction sites which can be reused numerous times); nylon [...]

The Latest in LED Lighting

Since lighting accounts for a significant portion of our residential and commercial electrical usage, improvements in energy-efficient lighting can have a huge impact. Strides are constantly being made in energy-efficient lighting like LEDs, or Light Emitting Diodes, which save even more energy than compact fluorescents and don’t contain mercury.

Lifecycle Building Challenge

In an effort to reduce the 100 million tons of construction and demolition debris that the building industry generates annually, designs are sought after in a Lifecycle Building competition.

Al Gore’s New Climate Initiative

Care about the environment? Concerned about global climate change? Want to know what you can do to make a difference? Well, Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection has just launched a new campaign, called the “We Can Solve the Climate Crisis”, designed to engage the American public in the issue of global [...]

The West is Warming Up

The Western portion of the United States is well-known for its dry climate and water scarcities, but now scientists warn that rising temperatures will impose even more severe drought conditions.

‘08 Gulf Coast Green Event Planned

This annual conference normally targets design and construction professionals, but this year’s new addition, the Houston Green Expo at Reliant Park will enlighten the public regarding green building products, energy efficiency, and green vehicles.

Powerful Roofs

What do you call roofing material that not only acts to protect a structure from the weather, but also generates electricity to power the building? The answer and an innovative solution is Building Integrated Photovoltaics, or BIPV. This type of roofing system has solar-powered modules built right into the roof’s surface which provide [...]

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