Vista Award for excellence in the design and construction of environmentally sustainable healthcare facilities from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). The Boulder Community Foothills Hospital became the... Read more

Consumer Reports® launched a new, free website on Earth Day, April 22, 2005, to help consumers make environmentally responsible purchases. Greenerchoices.org began with a dozen products in several categories and plans to expand in the future. An additional “green ratings” feature details Consumer Reports’ findings on the energy-efficiency and... Read more

EBN ran a chart titled “Some Existing and Forthcoming Straw Panel Products.” It included a dozen listings—ten were domestic, two were from overseas. At the time, eight of the ten domestic manufacturers weren’t yet in production; the other two had suspended production, but anticipated getting rolling again. A decade... Read more

The Northern California chapter of Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) has announced a new scholarship to promote “solutions to problems of poor indoor air quality, electromagnetic fields, mold, and other environmental toxins,” in the hopes of preventing environmental illness including multiple chemical... Read more

Not So Big House series, was named a 2005 Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Along with 65 other architects, Susanka will be invested during a ceremony on May 20. The complete list of 2005 Fellows is online at www.aia.org/fellows_default/.

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Vol. 13, No. 1), the foundation has released new guidelines for the grant program. These new guidelines reflect the foundation’s two goals for the Initiative: to help nonprofit organizations without an explicitly green agenda meet their facility needs... Read more

The third-party certifier Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) confirmed in March 2005 that Owens Corning has increased the average recycled content of its fiberglass insulation from 30% to 35%. The insulation now includes 9% post-consumer and 26% post-industrial recycled content. (For more information about insulation, see

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EBN senior editor during 2000 and 2001, has banded with Nathan Yost and Steven Baczek to form 3-D Building Solutions, LLC, a building-science consulting firm specializing in building investigation, architectural design review, and training for both the residential and commercial building industries. The three worked together at... Read more

At press time, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire was expected within days to sign into law a bill passed on March 30, 2005, by the Washington State legislature requiring Silver-level certification through the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Rating System for all major construction projects built with public funds. Executive orders and... Read more

by David Johnston and Kim Master. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2004. Paperback, 400 pages, $29.95.

Remodelers are the unsung heroes of the building industry—adding functionality and beauty to extend the lives of existing buildings. Their work is much trickier than new construction because the rooms... Read more

• Cannon Beach Cottage, a 2,268 ft2... Read more

Environmental Health Perspectives. About 15% of that cost burden can be attributed to the emissions of coal-fired power plants, according to the study, which was performed by... Read more