The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was created in the early 1990s to establish worldwide, environmentally sound standards for forest management practices and to monitor the agencies that choose to certify forestry programs to those standards (see EBN

Vol. 6, No. 10). Although some forest industry groups participated in the FSC’s... Read more

My family couldn’t disagree more with the comment you received about the quality of light from tubular skylights [see feature in EBN

Vol. 8, No. 10, and letter in EBN

Vol. 8, No. 11]. We had two Solatubes installed last month: one in a fairly dark kitchen, and the other in an interior windowless bathroom. They passed both the “... Read more

After a year-and-a-half as EBN’s able products editor, Dwight Holmes plans to get back into

working with products instead of writing about them. As a result, we’re looking for someone to fill his shoes—both in helping track products for EBN and in maintaining our

GreenSpec directory. It’s an exciting time in the green products... Read more

A solar house in Hanover, New Hampshire—designed by

Marc Rosenbaum, P.E. and featured in EBN

Vol. 7, No. 2 —is a winner of this year’s National Technology Awards from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Other winners will be announced at the Society’s Winter Meeting in Dallas... Read more

Final details are expected in February on how over $1 billion that will be collected by the New Jersey electric utility industry over the next eight years from “

Societal Benefits Charges” will be spent. The electric restructuring legislation passed in 1999 calls for about three-quarters of the money to go to energy efficiency measures... Read more

We are pleased to announce that subscribers can now access the current issue of EBN on our Web site as an Adobe Acrobat™ (.pdf) file! Follow instructions on our Web site to gain access to “eEBN.” Anyone who signs up for eEBN will be notified by e-mail each time a new issue is posted.

full-... Read more

The Emeryville Resourceful Building project consists of one two-unit and one single-family dwelling on a tight, infill site.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) has signed up more than 20,000 customers for its

green power program. Participating customers pay 6% more for green electricity (generated from wind, solar energy, and other renewables), but the higher costs are offset, according to the utility, by savings from compact fluorescent... Read more

has left her position as Managing Director of the U.S. Green Building Council to take over as editor of

Environmental Design and Construction magazine. Douglas replaces John Sailor, who initiated the magazine and led it through its successful first two years.

Innovations in Wallcoverings, Inc., a 25-year-old manufacturer of vinyl wallcoverings and upholstery,... Read more

The

rate at which open space is being lost to development has more than doubled since 1992, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in early November. During the decade 1982 to 1992 and excluding Alaska, 13.9 million acres (5.6 million ha) were converted from... Read more

, who, as chief architect for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), was instrumental in the adoption of a comprehensive sustainable design policy (see EBN

Vol. 7, No. 10), has now moved to the National Park Service. Effective December 20, 1999 Emmons became associate director for professional services,... Read more

(C&A) was one of two companies named 1999 Recycler-of-the-Year by the Society of Plastics Engineers, in recognition of the company’s ER3™ recycled-content vinyl carpet backing system. C&A also received the 1999 Outstanding Buy Recycled Business award from the Buy Recycled Business Alliance and the... Read more

Neil Kelly Cabinets’ Naturals Collection (see EBN Vol. 7, No. 8) received the 1999 Founder of the New Northwest award from Sustainable Northwest, an organization working to promote economic development that is rooted in the maintenance and enhancement of the environment. Visit www.sustainablenorthwest.org for details, or contact Neil Kelly at... Read more

The

Presidio Trust in San Francisco is this year’s winner of the

Waste Reduction Awards Program from the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Among the trust’s many recycling and reuse programs is a program to salvage reusable furnishings and building materials from structures throughout the national park. For more... Read more

New research on mice reported in the scientific journal

Nature (21 October 1999) shows that

Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in producing polycarbonate plastic,

causes premature puberty and adolescent weight gain. Bisphenol A is one of a number of chemicals suspected of being an “endocrine disrupter”—a class of... Read more

I am writing in response to the article on daylighting—“Daylighting: Energy and Productivity Benefits”—in

EBN

Vol. 8, No. 9 (September 1999). Although I am very pleased to see such a commitment of both article space and staff time to this important topic, it was disappointing to see an exclusive focus on high-cost daylighting... Read more

by Architects’ Council of Europe (Brussels): Eoin O’Cofaigh; Energy Research Group, University College (Dublin): Eileen Fitzgerald, Robert Alcock, Ann McNicholl, J. Owen Lewis; Suomen Arkkiteillitto (Helsinki): Vesa Peltonen; and Softech (Turin): Antonella Marucco. James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd., London, 1999. Paperback, 145 pages... Read more

by Mary Guzowski. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000. Hardcover, 450 pages, $79.95.

Since the discovery that toxic spores from the

black mold Stachybotrys atra had caused at least ten infant deaths in Cleveland a few years ago (see

EBN

Vol. 7, No. 3), interest in and awareness of this problem has mushroomed—so to speak. Evidence of this mold has been found in numerous new studies, according to an... Read more