Feist, who founded the Passivhaus Institut in Germany in 1996 and is its current director, says the award “... Read more

This post is the second in a series on the federal government’s use of green building certifications. Coming soon: The Hidden Beltway Lobbyists Who Shape Green Building Policy.

Bruce Brownell, of Adirondack Alternate Energy, has been creating low-energy, largely passive-solar-heated, resilient... Read more

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The database does not provide information on toxicity, but it may be a powerful... Read more

This post is the first in a series on the federal government’s use of green building certifications. Part 2: Sustainable Federal Buildings: What's the Law?

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University, who presented their findings at the ARCH12 conference on medical architecture in November 2012, proposed that aggression results from stressors such as crowding and noise. These stressors can be mitigated by key design elements, including private rooms, moveable... Read more

Industry guidelines like ASHRAE Standard 55-2010 say offices should be comfortable for 80% of their occupants. What about the other 20%? or those who work late or on weekends?

Heating or cooling an entire office is wasteful, and space heaters use a lot of energy. Some offices create “personal microclimates” by giving individual occupants... Read more

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Led by the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project, the authors of “Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system:... Read more

In the report, published in Nature Communications, scientists estimate that cats, especially strays and feral cats, kill 1.4–3.7 billion birds and 6.9–20.7 billion mammals in the U.S. every year, numbers that are two to four times previous estimates and higher than for any other human threat, including poisoning or collisions with automobiles... Read more

Attorney Shari Shapiro points out on the Green Building Law blog that every state provided a governor’s letter stating its intent to comply with ARRA Section 410, linking State Energy Program (SEP) funding to adoption and enforcement of the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) for residential buildings and ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA... Read more

State Assembly Member Nancy Skinner introduced Bill AB 127 in January, saying that California recognizes the... Read more

Nature Climate Change.

The authors of “Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America” demonstrate by computer... Read more

EBN Aug. 2012).

The ordinance will apply to... Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), concluding that toxic airborne emissions... Read more

In the face of worsening water shortages, Mexico City’s 20 million residents currently depend on water pumped in from elsewhere and on the region’s shallow... Read more

The green building community has wrestled with the concept of sustainability since the United Nations first defined sustainable development in 1987 as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

“Nothing is more boring” than sustainability, William... Read more