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[Clicking an image in this post will load a larger version of the image. A slideshow of the images in this post, and more, is also available. Previous posts in the "Notes from Sweden" series include #1: How They Get Around, #2: Western Harbor in Malmo, and #3: The Scandinavian Green Roof Institute in Malmo.] In Brattleboro, Vermont, I'm... Read more

We wish all of you a happy, life-changing year ahead, and thank you for all the good, important work you do and choices you make. We had our annual holiday party for staff and their guests on Wednesday evening; it's something we look forward to every year. If there was enough room, we'd have you all over. That's part of the reason we've... Read more

[Clicking an image in this post will load a larger version of the image. A slideshow of the images in this post, and more, is also available. Previous posts in the "Notes from Sweden" series include #1: How They Get Around, and #2: Western Harbor in Malmo.]On a wide-ranging tour of interesting projects, programs, and companies in the Skåne... Read more

[Clicking an image in this post will load a larger version of the image. A slideshow of the images in this post, and more, is also available. Previous posts in the "Notes from Sweden" series include #1: How They Get Around.] It's enough to make architects go weak at the knees. I'm not an architect, but wandering around Malmo's Western Harbor (... Read more

[Clicking an image in this post will load a larger version of the image. A slideshow of the images in this post is also available.]Despite the light drizzle and the fading light of Sweden's mid-afternoon dusk when I arrived in Lund, it was immediately clear that the prevalent form of transportation here is bicycling. Bicycles are everywhere.... Read more

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Following the tremendous response to its Living Buildings Challenge (see

EBN

Vol. 15, No. 12), the Cascadia Region Green Building Council unveiled its new “Living Site and Infrastructure Challenge” at Greenbuild 2007 in Chicago. This new system is modeled closely on its predecessor, with the same “all prerequisites, no credits”... Read more

GE Real Estate is among the world’s larger real estate investment companies, with $72 billion in assets in 31 countries; its investment business generates more than $30 billion in transactions annually. Joined by President Bill Clinton at the Greenbuild conference in Chicago in November 2007, the company announced that it would not only make... Read more

The editors of

Environmental Building News, GreenSpec, and the online BuildingGreen Suite are pleased to announce a new resource: BuildingGreen.com LIVE. Structured like a blog but linked to the full range of articles and product listings available at BuildingGreen.com, and to outside resources, LIVE features up-to-the-minute news,... Read more

BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the

GreenSpec Directory and

Environmental Building News (

EBN), announced its annual Top-10 Green Building Products during the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference and Expo, held in November 2007 in Chicago. The Top-10 consists of the ten most exciting products added to... Read more

International architecture firm Perkins + Will has strengthened its healthcare design practice with the acquisition of Guenther 5 Architects, a healthcare-focused firm based in New York City. The firms have not disclosed the terms of their merger. Guenther 5, headed by founder Robin Guenther, FAIA, is known for its work designing green... Read more

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has recognized several green building pioneers with its annual Leadership Awards, presented at the Greenbuild Conference and Expo in Chicago in November 2007.

EBN advisory board member

Gail Lindsey, FAIA, founder of Design Harmony in Raleigh, North Carolina, was... Read more

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A bill signed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would provide rebates to residents and businesses to support the installation of 200,000 solar water heating systems in the state by 2017. The bill, which takes effect on January 1, 2008, requires the State’s energy commission to evaluate data from a pilot project run by the California... Read more