Commercial Kitchens: Cooking Up Green Opportunities
Commercial kitchens run energy- and water-intensive equipment for long hours, sometimes even when not in use. While the challenges of saving water and energy in commercial kitchens are daunting, they're not insurmountable. Careful equipment selection and a commitment to conscientious kitchen practices can dramatically cut down on wasteand utility bills.
Read full article...
Radiant Floor Heating: Wrong Choice for Green Homes?
While very popular, radiant-floor heating is not well-suited to highly insulated, green homes.
Read full article...
Mobile Photovoltaic Power Generators
Mobile photovoltaic generators can provide a silent power supply for construction sites and other off-grid applications without the use of fossil fuels.
Read full article...
New Tax Credit Limits Window Choices
The $1,500 tax credit for energy-efficient windows that is currently available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act only covers windows with U-factors below 0.30 and solar heat gain coefficients below 0.30which largely precludes windows that provide passive solar heating benefits.
Read full article...
Our blog, BuildingGreen.com LIVE, is updated frequently with real-time event coverage, reviews, and our editors' unvarnished opinion on the latest news from all over the green building world! Join the conversation:
Products Find the green building products that you need for your project. Search for products you know like Richlite FSC-Certified Countertops or Brae Rain Harvesting Systems , or browse product categories. Over 2,000 product listings, organized by CSI section, design strategy, LEED relevance, and green attribute. |
|
Green Building Information
|
Case Studies See examples of green projects around the world. Desert Willow Family School, Albuquerque, NM |
About BuildingGreen, LLC
We are an independent publishing company committed to bringing our members accurate, unbiased, and timely green design information.
BuildingGreen brings the best research, thinking, and writing to you through many publications, including Environmental Building News, the GreenSpec directory of green products, and the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools.
Follow this link to find extensive examples of the kind of information that BuildingGreen is well known in the industry for providing, or read About Us to learn why we do what we do.