Reducing greenhouse gas emissions—climate change mitigation—has defined much of the sustainable design approach, but a new report calls for a sharper focus on adapting our buildings to future climate extremes as climate change becomes a reality. The report, from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the University of Michigan,... Read more

Here at BuildingGreen, we're pretty excited about the rise of the product transparency movement (as you may have noticed from recent coverage in January's EBN and our related blog series) but... Read more

Virtually ubiquitous in our buildings, gypsum board is widely seen as an innocuous building material.... Read more

Wait a minute. Weren't we criticizing Eleek and its cast aluminum hardware in this blog a few weeks ago? We were--and that sparked a dialogue with one... Read more

I was in Boston last week for the annual Building Energy conference, sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. Each year this conference provides an... Read more

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A new feature article in Environmental Building News examines how a focus on resilient design could advance green building more quickly than our current focus on sustainability.

Sometimes advancing sustainability feels like pushing a boulder uphill.... Read more

With this in mind, evolveEA, the Heinz Endowments, and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh conducted a survey of convention centers to better understand how they are addressing the demand for greener venues. Looking at convention centers’ business models, “Event Venue Benchmarking” identifies key market drivers and industry... Read more

PLoS Biology, “Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems,” reveals the relative ineffectiveness of wetlands restoration over the last century. Data from 621 sites throughout the world show that even 100 years after restoration attempts, wetlands’ biological structure and... Read more

Architecture 2030 says new energy projections from the federal government show the building sector is on its way to achieving long-term goals in energy and carbon reductions.

The organization’s 2030 Challenge asks architectural firms to meet progressively rising standards in building energy use and emissions, with the ultimate goal of... Read more

By Erin Weaver

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Greenprint Foundation have come together to form the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance. Designed to facilitate information exchange throughout the real estate and land-use industries, this collaboration unites ULI’s 30,000 members with the foundation’s goal of reducing... Read more

By Erin Weaver

A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel of experts has issued a report expressing concern about the health and environmental effects of nanomaterials (see “Is Nano a No-No?”,

EBN Mar. 2008). The report points out that suspected risks are already being ignored, and as the nanotechnology market continues to... Read more

Dynamic glazing—coated plastic or glass that changes tint in response to light, heat, or electricity—has been around for decades as a feature of eyeglasses, mood rings, and digital watches. Similar technologies have been developed more recently to make dynamic glass at a much larger scale for architectural applications. These so-called smart... Read more