The articles fail to mention, however, that windows are not only a source of heat loss but also a source of heat gain. In the north, the best insulating value doesn’t necessarily result in the lowest heating bill. The featured windows employ one or more highly insulating, low-solar-gain low-emissivity coatings. While this is a great choice for... Read more

Habitat for Humanity International has partnered with the Home Depot Foundation to create Partners in Sustainable Building, an initiative to encourage green building in affordable housing. The program will offer $30 million over five years to Habitat affiliates to offset the higher first costs of green building in up to 5,000 homes. According... Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new lead paint rules for contractors who renovate or repair housing, child-care facilities, or schools built before 1978. The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1992 required EPA to regulate renovation activities by 1996, but EPA had delayed writing the rules until pressed by a 2005... Read more

2 (267 m

2) in 1990 to 6,290 ft

2 (584 m

2) in 2006, while the overall median home size has risen to 3,100 ft

2 (290 m

2). But both the County and the City of Boulder have been working on... Read more

compensatory mitigation, were recently consolidated and updated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers. The update favors use of

mitigation banks,... Read more

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that starting in January 2009 it will require its members to complete four hours per year of continuing education focused on sustainable design, constituting half of the eight hours required for topics in health, safety, and welfare. The requirement will remain in place until 2012, when... Read more

Congratulations on the partnership with such a class act as Taunton Press. I’ve always felt that

EBN has been one of the most effective forces in bringing about the green building transformation we’re experiencing.

EBN gives direction to the leading edge of the green building movement through its “big picture” perspective and... Read more

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced its Top Ten Green Projects for this year. Projectprofiles can be found at www.aiatopten.org and in BuildingGreen Suite.

Aldo Leopold Legacy Center (Baraboo, Wisconsin; The Kubala Washatko Architects)—The LEED Platinum headquarters for the Aldo Leopold Foundation uses 70% less... Read more

Bamboo has been used as a construction material since prehistoric times. Now that it has become an international commodity in the form of strip flooring and plywood-like panels, pressure on the bamboo forests of eastern Asia is greater than ever, leading environmentalists to question whether all bamboo products are still a good ecological... Read more

The severe 2007 drought throughout the southeast U.S. was a wake-up call. This drought taught us that even areas of the country we have long assumed to have plenty of water are not immune from water shortages, and it showed us how woefully inadequately prepared we were—and still are— to respond to severe drought.

Changing... Read more

On April 10, 2008, the U.S. Senate passed legislation with significant provisions supporting the renewable-energy industry. The Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008, which must be voted on in the House before being sent to the President, modifies and extends the incentives for energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy that were... Read more

Peter Yost is Vice President - Technical Serviceas for BuildingGreen, Inc. in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has been building, researching, teaching, writing, and consulting on high performance homes for more than twenty-five years. His expertise stretches from construction waste management and advanced framing to energy efficiency and building... Read more

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If you're a regular reader of the posts here on BuildingGreen.com LIVE, you might remember that we had a couple folks from Smith & Fong in our offices back in January. That was when we first got wind of their pending FSC certification — for bamboo.... Read more