McDonald's LEED restaurants part of LEED Volume program
The U.S. Green Building Council is working with companies that include McDonald's Corporation to develop LEED Volume, a program to...
Restoring a neglected park in Baltimore
Baltimore's Parks & People Foundation has rescued a ruin to establish its headquarters in the Druid Hill Park at Auchentoroly Terrace....
Passive House moisture, reused blackwater and green door locks ...
I profile three of the 10,000 solutions to building a greener world in a short showcase of products from Air Pohoda (the Ultima iERV),...
New Orleans making peace with its water
The official publication of GreenBuild International Conference and Expo, hosted by the city of New Orleans in October 2014, takes a...
The sum of the building parts
Green buildings are much more than some photovoltaic cells installed on the roof. It takes hundreds of components to create a structure,...
Writing about hyper-technical topics such as data center energy efficiency
The digital revolution has a dirty problem: energy and water use in data centers is prodigious. But together with my editors at American...
The man with the plan to bring Passive Houses and wood high rises to North America
As architect Guido Wimmers explains, his native Germany and other countries in Europe count 50,000 PassivHaus constructions thus far. But...
Biomimicry in design: The University of Arizona's slot canyon building
UA's new Environment and Natural Resources 2 building – ENR2, on its urban Tucson campus – copies the slot canyon environment to create...
Lawyers and investors making solar happen – on all those big roofs you see from airplanes
The patchwork of regulation, tax incentives, utility transactions and insurance issues around commercial scale solar can be daunting....
Northwestern University's all-green building program
In this Q&A column, I ask the Northwestern University's director of sustainability what they are doing with 200 existing and new...
