The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released a study, performed by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, that estimates the number of jobs that will be created by the green building industry by 2013.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill in October 2009 postponing the deadline for building owners to report energy information when they sell or lease a property. The bill delays the implementation of AB 1103, passed in 2007 and scheduled for full implementation on January 1, 2010 (see

EBN Oct. 2008).

The International Living Buildings Institute and Cascadia Green Building Council have overhauled the Living Building Challenge (LBC), releasing version 2.0 at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild conference in Phoenix. LBC is known for its unbending principles and all-prerequisite structure (see

EBN June 2009).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its WaterSense specification for flushing urinals. In order to meet Water-Sense criteria, urinals must use 0.5 gallons of water per flush (1.9 lpf) or less. Urinals must also meet performance requirements, guar-anteeing that they work at least as well as their conventional... Read more

Meant for use from early in the design process, the tool helps project teams set goals for carbon emissions... Read more

Prospective LEED projects will now have the opportunity to earn an Innovation in Design point by pilot-testing credits listed in the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) new LEED Pilot Credit Library. Launched in October 2009, the credit library is meant to encourage project teams to provide feedback on credits still in development and to... Read more

Your October feature on “Integrating Social Justice into Green Design” contains some good first steps for designers who may be unfamiliar with the issue but leaves the most important topics in this area undiscussed. Providing healthy interior spaces and shared community amenities are a good start, but “social justice” generally refers to... Read more

BuildingGreen, LLC, publisher of the GreenSpec Directory  and Environmental Building News (EBN), announced its eighth annual Top-10 Green Building Products during the 2009 Greenbuild conference in Phoenix. The list recognizes the most exciting products drawn from recent additions to GreenSpec and coverage in EBN.

Project FROG modular... Read more

By the end of Greenbuild, I was exhausted/troubled/elated with all sorts of conundrums swirling around in my head — not to mention a few partly written blogs, abandoned in favor of the next conversation... ... I had wanted to write about the 'executive roundtable' that happened that Wednesday — and responses to the twitter-submitted question... Read more

I just returned from the Greenbuild conference in Phoenix. This annual event, now in its eighth year, has become the leading locus for exchange of information about the rapidly growing green building movement.... Read more

The easiest energy savings come from little changes in our behavior that don't cause any hardship--or even result in ancillary benefits. Such is the case with reducing the amount of time spent... Read more

The easiest energy savings come from little changes in our behavior that don't cause any hardship--or even result in ancillary benefits. Such is the case with reducing the amount of time spent... Read more