Wireless technology has been in development for decades but has blossomed in recent years with the proliferation of cell phones and wireless computer networking, enabling greater communication and connectivity among electronic devices. The technology has affected telecommunication, transportation, and consumer electronics and now offers new... Read more

Following the tremendous response to its Living Buildings Challenge (see

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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

BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon takes place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with collegiate teams constructing solar-powered houses, demonstrating the homes’ functionality to judges, and giving tours to the public. In 2007, for the first time, first prize has gone to a team from outside the U.S.; the team from... Read more

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Vol. 16, No. 6). In November 2007, the... Read more

Douglas Farr, AIA; John Wiley & Sons, 2007; 304 pages, $75

Sustainable Urbanism. Beyond just developing a concept, however, the book acts as a... Read more

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In July 2007, the New Buildings Institute (NBI) released its Advanced Buildings

Core Performance Guide, which outlines cost-effective ways to achieve 20%–30% energy savings in new buildings (see

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Vol. 16, No. 8).

Core Performance replaced the Advanced Buildings

Benchmark, which was cited in LEED for... 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

On November 17, 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fourth “Synthesis Report” along with a “Summary for Policymakers.” The latest report integrates the findings of reports released earlier in 2007 by each of the three IPCC working groups, which dealt, respectively, with the underlying science of climate change... 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