My journey in sewers
Separately, three different friends sent me links to a New York Times article on March 13, 2015 regarding “flushable wet wipes,” which...
It’s sometimes rainy in Philadelphia
One of the tallest LEED certified buildings in the world is the Comcast Corporation headquarters in downtown Philadelphia. But the City...
The green gas station of Beaverton, Oregon
Just because an enterprise is in the fossil fuel business doesn’t mean it shouldn’t try to reduce hydrocarbon use. I had this...
Bioclimatic design, using nature to make buildings comfortable
While the term bioclimatic design is unfamiliar to most people, buildings that use architecture to inexpensively achieve energy...
Brutalist building a good green retrofit
The Waldorf Schools (a.k.a. Rudolf Steiner schools, of which more than 1,000 exist globally) teach by a method called anthroposophy, an...
What good can be said about Tar Sands oil?
I’m not one to readily use “good” in the same sentence as “fossil fuels.” But even the most optimistic greenie has to acknowledge that...
Cities use green roofs as elegant solutions
A remarkable thing about green roofs and green infrastructure is we are learning to construct buildings and environments that support...
Smart Grids: Cleaner, more dependable energy from a dynamic network of minds
An engineer, a lawyer and an office building manager walked into a bar. Faster than you can say kilowatt, the eclectic trio ordered up an...
Building green to reap the long-term benefits
In the world of real estate development, there continues to be a divide that determines how green a structure is built. On one side is...
The wind is bigger in Texas
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Lone Star State isn't just about fossil fuels. There are an estimated 80,000 water-pumping windmills...
