In TerraBlog - Posted 1 week ago

by Mira Rubin Karp Last week I had the pleasure of attending Greenbuild 08, a conference and expo dedicated to (quite obviously) green building. The ...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 3 weeks ago

The Burchfield Penney Art Center, in Buffalo, is the first art museum in New York state to be certified (at the silver level) by the U.S. Green Buildi...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 5 weeks ago

Students and faculty are anxiously awaiting the completion of Kroon Hall, Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) building, which is...

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In The Green Skeptic - Posted 5 weeks ago

(This post is the text from a talk I gave today at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Philadelphia, as part of their Election '08 Forum.)I've spent th...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 6 weeks ago

Marywood University announced this week that its Scranton-Dunmore campus will be adding a 300-student architecture program that will focus on green bu...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 6 weeks ago

The Sierra Green Building Association is hosting a tour of 4 homes and 2 commercial buildings that have incorporated green building technologies. Att...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 7 weeks ago

From time to time, I come across a news article or blog post about a restaurant going green. Here's one located in New York City that I wrote about a...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 10 weeks ago

What makes a city green? For starters: energy sources, water and air quality, transit options, green building efforts, land use, traffic congestio...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 10 weeks ago

Is it just me, or does it not make any sense to continue building office space, or anything else for that matter, if the need for it isn't there? Don...

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In WorldChanging - Posted 14 weeks ago

The world's leading certification system for sustainable architecture is set to undergo its most sweeping changes in 2009. The proposed revisions enc...

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