Squeezing big box stores (and more people) into cities, living in a CO2 fog, and tallying up the value of green homes.
How China is affecting the world’s photovoltaic industry
Workers at a Suntech factory in China. Due to the glut in PV, Suntech has closed a quarter of it's manufacturing capacity.Photo Credit: Peter Parks, Getty Images for the New York Times
The new Declare "nutrition label" and database will streamline the ardous task of finding Living Building Challenge-compliant products.
Introducing the Resilient Design Institute: a new nonprofit organization that has been created in Brattleboro.
Watch the plants! There are limits to their growth, and ours. Also: data center showdown, cargo bikes, and satellite photos of economic injustice.
This simple system for recovering heat from wastewater makes a lot of sense—especially for families and commercial buildings that produce a lot of hot water.
Over the past few weeks I’ve written about various strategies to produce hot water efficiently. We’ve seen that tankless water heaters are more efficient than storage water heaters (though are not without their drawbacks), and we’ve learned that heat-pump water heaters produce two to three times as much heat per unit of electricity consumed as electric water heaters that rely on electric resistance heat.
