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Archives - Green Building Rebuilding a Tornado-Destroyed Town the Green Way NPR, 7/8 Green Property Portfolios Benefit Investors GreenerBuildings, 6/27 Smart Buildings Bring Opportunities to Reduce Energy Demand Into Picture Triple Pundit, 5/30 Building the Way to Water Efficiency Greener Buildings, 5/23 Next Generation of LEED Out for Public Comment ENN, 5/22 Free Green: Bringing Green House Design to the Masses Inhabitat, 5/13 Green Your Facility, Boost Your Bottom Line Greener Buildings, 5/9 Tornado-Struck Kansas Town Rebuilds Green CS Monitor, 5/8 Demystifying Green Building Residential Design and Build, 5/6 Green Schools at Top of Nation's Agenda LOHAS Weekly, 4/28 Building the Future of Sustainable Design Grist, 4/27 The Benefits of Energy and Water Audits Greener Buildings, 4/24 Challenges of Green Development: Resistance to Change The Triple Pundit, 4/22 Green Innovator: William McDonough ENN, 4/18 Portland Home Goes Ultra Green The Oregonian, 4/14 Green Building Solutions to Climate Change Save Billions ENN, 4/11 Green Roofs' Benefits Detailed At Construction Industry Gathering Greener Buildings, 4/10 Greener Buildings Most Effective Option For Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Edie, 4/4 Sustainable Solutions - The Impact of the Green Building Movement Greener Buildings, 4/3 What's the Green Buzz About Bamboo? ENN, 4/2 Remodeling Guidelines to Green Interior Design Treehugger, 3/25 Is Building Green Going Mainstream? The Triple Pundit, 3/20 Trends in Consumer Actions to Protect the Environment ENN, 3/20 Get Recession Ready - Conduct a Home Energy Audit Planet Green, 3/19 Green Building Is Best Bet for CO2 Cuts in America: Report GreenerBuildings, 3/14 Summit Boasts Green Real Estate Opportunities Greener Buildings, 3/13 Going Green Pays Off For Idaho Carpenter and His New Company Idaho Statesman, 3/3 Building Green in San Francisco San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2/29 When Buildings Talk, People Listen Greener Buildings, 2/29 Building the Ecocities of Tomorrow Treehugger, 2/19 The Importance of Measuring Building Energy Use Greener Buildings, 2/14 10 Critical (and Money Saving) Steps in a Green Home Remodel Green Key, 2/8 California to Require Net-Zero-Energy Buildings ENN, 2/6 Construction Industry Embraces Green Building LOHAS Weekly, 2/1 Green Design Can Be Profitable SF Chronicle, 1/31 Using Water Management Strategies to Boost Triple Bottom Line Greener Buildings, 1/31 Builders, Brokers See Edge in 'Green' Homes Newsday, 1/22 Home Builder Group Pledges to Half Energy Consumption By 2020 SF Chronicle, 1/16 Abu Dhabi Unveils Plans for Sustainable City ENN, 1/15 New (and Cheap) Green Building Technology Unveiled ENN, 1/15 Building Green: Buyers Demanding More Energy-Efficient Homes, and Builders Are Paying Heed The Oregonian, 1/11 Face It: There Is a Solution to Global Warming ENN, 1/10 Energy Efficient Homes Pay Off For Environment & Wallet LOHAS Weekly, 1/2 All Commercial Buildings Can Be Carbon Neutral, UK Report Finds GreenerBuildings, 12/27 Real Estate Brokers Learn Green Sustainable Business, 12/21 Newsome Wants S.F. To Have Strictest Green Building Codes in Nation SF Chronicle, 12/17 Q & A: Talking With Al Gore, Person of the Year Runner Up Time, 12/20 Cities Play the Green Card to Achieve Success ENN, 12/20 Bali Climate Deal Marks Geopolitical Shift CS Monitor, 12/19 REI Chief Sally Jewell on Sustainability, Shoes and Sedentary Kids Grist, 12/19 The Real Economics Behind the Paradigm Shift to Green Hotels Greener Buildings, 12/13 Inaction On Greener Buildings Puzzles Experts Reuters, 12/10 Greener Buildings: One Step At a Time Greener Buildings, 11/29 Energy Efficiency Makes the Difference Sustainable Business, 11/21 BC Working Towards Tax Rebates for Green Houses Georgia Straight, 11/19 Green Schools Save Money and Energy Seattle Times, 11/16 Sustainable Design Heats Up LOHAS Weekly, 11/16 Cool Housing Market Makes Green Building Shine The Triple Pundit, 11/14 Green Buildings: Energy Effiency Makes the Difference Sustainable Business, 11/13 Will Going Green Save the Real Estate Market? The Triple Pundit, 11/9 Ratings Proliferate for 'Green' Builders Wall Street Journal, 11/9 A Tour of An Ultra-Green Home Treehugger, 11/9 What I Want In a New Home The Triple Pundit, 11/5 Green Roofs Start to Sprout on Urban Homes CS Monitor, 11/2 Corporations Are Embracing Green Real Estate Greener Buildings, 11/1 The Deeper Benefits of Green Buildings GreenBiz, 10/30 Eco-Cities Take Root GreenBiz, 10/30 A Pioneering Clean City LA Times, 10/23 Masdar Plans World's First Green City Sustainable Business, 10/22 Measuring and Reducing Development's Carbon Costs Living On Earth, 10/22 Green Home-Building Pioneers Triple Pundit, 10/17 Realtor Ponders How to Make Green Homes 'Sexy' Seattle Times, 10/9 Green Building - Transforming Markets or Transforming Marketing? Greener Buildings, 10/5 Architects: Biologically-Inspired Designs Can Help Reduce Environmental Impacts (and Cut Operating Costs) of Buildings Economist, 10/3 Riding a Green Building Wave Treehugger, 10/2 Special Series on Green Homes - Seattle Considered a Bellweather Seattle Times, 9/25 Well-Designed Regulations Key to Greener Buildings ENN, 9/25 Green Roofs Prevent Runoff, Save Money in Energy Costs GreenerBuildings, 9/21 The Untapped Green Within Graying Buildings GreenerBuildings, 9/21 Who's the Greenest Bank of All? Banks Want In On Sustainable Building Fortune, 9/19 Number of Green Schools Rising Washington Post, 9/13 New York Offers Green Building Cash Incenives GreenerBuildings, 9/12 The Six Degrees of Building Efficiency Greener Buildings, 9/7 Green Dorm Energizes Students Treehugger, 9/7 Natural Light in Schools Shown to Raise Test Scores Treehugger, 9/6 Beyond Buildings: LEED Setting Standards for Green Neighborhoods Sustainable Business, 9/4 Weather Channel Latest Network Going Green With LEED Studio ClimateBiz, 9/4 Building Professionals Overestimate Costs and Underestimate Benefits of Green Building Grist, 8/30 The Confounding Complexities of Building Green Two Steps Forward, 8/29 Changing Our Building Codes to Save Energy and Money Treehugger, 8/28 Living Green Roofs Cut Heating & Cooling Costs Contra Costa Times, 8/24 Seattle Home Wins Nation's Highest Green Rating SeattlePi, 8/24 Creating a Truly Healing Environment With LEED Hospitals Greener Buildings, 8/23 Green Construction Not As Pricy As Perceived - Study Greener Buildings, 8/22 For the Future of Farming, Look Up Washington Post, 8/14 A Primer on the Green Building Advantage GreenerBuildings, 8/10 Sharing Knowledge About Eco-Renovation Treehugger, 8/7 Green Modular Home To Be Constructed In San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza ENN, 8/6 Two Examples of Green Building: Fancy and Frugal LA Times, 8/3 Remodeling Right: Energy Efficient and Planet Friendly Solutions for Every Budget Sierra Magazine, 8/3 Green Product Specification Sustainable Industries, 8/2 Family Friendly Eco-Towns to Cut Carbon Footprint The Times of London, 7/27 Using Buildings to Green Your Triple Bottom Line Greener Buildings, 7/27 Green Design Will Become the Definition of Good Design Treehugger, 7/26 Roof Tops Key to Florida's Green Energy Goal ENN, 7/19 How Retailers Large and Small Are Going Green Greener Buildings, 7/12 Being Green is Getting Easier Washington Post, 7/17 Green Schools Initiative Would Cut Energy Bills, Reduce Pollution GreenerBuildings, 7/11 USGBC to Boost LEED Energy Performance Standards Greener Buildings, 7/2 Mushrooms Become Source for Eco-Building LOHAS, 6/29 Highly Efficient, and Without Mercury, LED Lighting On the Rise in Large Scale Projects Good Magazine, 6/22 Oregon May Impose Tougher Green Homebuilding Rules The Worldlink, 6/20 The Mainstreaming of Green Buildings Greener Buildings, 6/19 Green Homes Get Attention The Olympian, 6/15 Award-Winning Home Design Requires No Heating or Cooling Treehugger, 6/14 Green Buildings Save Money - And the Planet Eugene Register Guard, 6/12 New Concept in Eco-Friendly Living: First 5-Star Rated Green Community in Nation LOHAS Weekly, 6/11 A Major Realty Company Goes Green The Daily Green, 6/1 Salem Home Could Be Greenest in U.S. Statesman Journal, 5/31 Planting Begins On Building's Living Roof SF Chronicle, 5/30 Can Google Set the Standard for Corporate Green Building Practices? Planetizen, 5/23 Why Are They (Europe) Greener Than We (U.S.) Are? NY Times Magazine, 5/21 More Low Income Housing Being Built Green, Saving $$ For Those With Least To Spare SeattlePi, 5/8 Building Design is Part of Global Warming Solution Idaho Statesman, 5/8 Daylighting Buildings Can Thaw Energy Bills Greener Buildings, 5/2 U.S. Architects Announce 10 Best Green Buildings ENN, 4/25 Ask the Green Architect - Mercury in Light Bulbs Greener Buildings, 4/19 Architecture: Green and Greener WorldChanging, 4/6 Britain Tells U.S. to Invest in Clean Tech or Lose Out to Europeans ENN, 4/18 Home Depot to Display an Environmental Label NY Times, 4/18 Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA WorldChanging, 4/16 Bringing Socially Responsible Finance to Scale GreenBiz, 4/16 Green Homes Save Money, Make Owners Happier GreenerBuildings, 4/5 Buildings Play a Key Role in the Climate Change Fight GreenerBuildings, 4/5 Greener Buildings Could Slow Global Warming More Than Kyoto Reuters, 3/30 Malaysia to Make Rainwater Collection Mandatory for Big Roofs ENN, 3/29 Ask the Green Architect: Getting Started in Green Building GreenerBuildings, 3/26 Residential Green Building Slow to Gain Momentum LOHAS Weekly, 3/23 Major Green Building Agreement Changes How Homes Are Made GreenerBuildings, 3/16 US EPA Opens Efficient, Green Denver Headquarters Treehugger, 3/9 Even the Biggest Boxes Can Go Green Greener Buildings, 3/8 Grow Your Own Home: 'Fab Tree Hab' Vancouver Sun, 3/8 Companies Realizing That They Can Save Money Through Green Office Buildings Forbes, 2/23 Interest Grows in Ecological Roofs to Cut Energy Costs Seattle Pi, 2/22 Green Construction Booms As Housing Market Tanks Mongabay.com, 2/21 Green Construction's Future is Now Greener Buildings, 2/14 GE Announces Green Building Partnership Sustainable Business, 2/9 Down and Dirty - 'Earthen Floors' N.Y. Times, 2/8 This Old (Green) House Living on Earth, 2/6 The Greenest Building WorldChanging, 2/5 The Green House Effect Wall Street Journal, 1/30 Architecture 2030: An Interview with Ed Mazria WorldChanging, 1/29 Huge City Center Project In Las Vegas Aims To Be Green TreeHugger, 1/29 Building a Better Straw Bale House in Wintry Vermont Natural Home, 1/25 Taking the LEED in Green Building and Design ENN, 1/16 Finding the Green in Building Renovation N.Y. Times, 1/11 Buildings That Breathe - Green Building Coming of Age E Magazine, 1/10 Building a Green Revolution ENN, 1/9 What's New on the Horizon for Green Buildings? Sustainable Business, 1/3 Seattle Adds a Touch of Green Seattle Pi, 1/3 Buying Into a No-New Lifestyle Register Guard, 1/3 You Are What You Eat - 2006 and the Politics of Food NY Times, 12/29 Ecobuilding to the Max Treehugger, 12/27 Environmentally Friendly Design Makes Fire Station a Milestone Washington Post, 12/22 Boston Expects to be First Major U.S. City to Require "Green" Building for Large Projects Boston Globe, 12/22 BP and Northern California's Largest Roofing Company Sign Solar Agreement LOHAS Weekly, 12/15 A Manual for Ecological Design Treehugger, 12/15 For Houses, It's Glamorous to Be Green Business Week, 12/14 New Report Assesses Financial Advantages of Green Buildings Greener Buildings, 12/14 How to Place a Dollar Amount on Green Building Salem Statesman Journal, 12/13 Green Guide for Building Design, Operation Greener Buildings, 12/8 Washington D.C. City Council Passes Green Building Rules N.Y. Times, 12/7 Green Building: It Will Take a Lot of Green Villages WorldChanging, 11/27 Building Green in D.C. WorldChanging, 11/24 Green Building: The View From Here Two Steps Forward, 11/17 Green Cleaning Network Launched Greener Buildings, 11/16 Tower of Tomorrow is Example of Living Green Architecture Fortune, 11/14 Build Green, Make Money Sightline, 11/10 Salt Lake City Embraces Green Building Salt Lake Tribune, 11/8 Study Shows Going Green Saves Schools $100,000 a Year GreenerBuildings, 11/6 House Designed to Last 'From Cradle to Cradle' Grist, 10/20 The Cost of Building Green WorldChanging, 10/16 Making a Profit and a Difference NY Times, 10/6 Borrowing Affordable Ideas From a Green Tudor Mansion NY Times, 10/6 EarthTalk - Why Eat Locally? Treehugger, 10/4 Toyota Introduces Eco-Drive Indicator Treehugger, 10/3 When Building Green, It’s Still Tough to Find a Builder NY Times, 10/3 YOLO Colorhouse Sprouts a Fresh and Healthy Paint Palette CSR Wire, 9/29 Retail Goes Green From the Ground Up Greener Buildings, 9/28 A Colorado Home-builder Reflects on Attempt to Go Green Grist, 9/27 How Green is Your Roof? Treehugger, 9/20 Portland Schools Could Spark Green Building Boom The Oregonian, 9/20 New World Trade Center Going for LEED Gold Certification US Green Building Council, 9/18 Sun + Wind + Rain: Design of Home Key to Energy Independence Treehugger, 9/15 Green Building 101: The Conclusion Inhabitat, 9/14 Green Building 101: Design Innovation Inhabitat, 9/7 Architect Believes Time for Future Cities is Now Contra Costa Times, 9/6 Retail Goes Green from the Ground Up Greener Buildings, 9/5 New Berkeley Campus Green with Sustainability San Francisco Chronicle, 9/5 Green Building 101: Appliances, Electronics and Energy Use Inhabitat, 8/31 Green Building 101: Eco-Power Inhabitat, 8/24 Ask the Green Architect: Environmental Carpeting, How 'Green' Saves Money, Rules of Thumb GreenerBuildings, 8/18 Green Building 101: Environmentally Friendly Lighting Inhabitat, 8/17 Hybrid Lighting Technology: Saves Energy & Money, Boosts Productivity Greener Buildings, 8/10 Green Building 101: Energy & Atmosphere - Keeping Cool & Staying Warm Inhabitat, 8/10 Commercial Demand for Green Development is Growing GreenBiz, 8/7 Green Building Goes Mainstream InvestorIdeas, 8/7 Retrofit It: Saving Energy, Money at Home Living on Earth, 8/1 A Cool Landscape Can Lower Your Energy Bills Seattle Times, 8/4 Ten Principles for Re-Thinking the Mall Planetizen, 8/4 Chicago Green Roof Program Inhabitat, 8/1 Building 'Green' Reaches a New Level USA Today, 7/27 Green Building 101: Materials and Resources, Part II Inhabitat, 7/27 Toronto Buildings Going Green on Top ENN, 7/27 Earning a Star: Save Money, Energy and the Environment Newsday, 7/26 Street smarts Greener Buildings, 7/25 Oregon Architect Beats Heat With Radiant Cooling Greener Buildings, 7/20 Green Building 101: Materials and Resources, Part I Inhabitat, 7/20 Building Green in New Orleans Washington Post, 7/18 Interview with a green roof designer: Paul Kephart of Rana Creek Inhabitat, 7/18 Green Building 101: Save By Increasing Your Home's Water Efficiency Treehugger, 7/13 A Guide to Alternative Building Materials Natural Home, 7/10 Ask the Green Architect: Mirrors for Lighting; Radiant Heating for Floors... GreenerBuildings, 7/7 Green Building 101: Sustainable Sites Inhabitat, 7/6 Green Value: Green Building = Profit WorldChanging, 6/30 Green Building 101: Location & Community Inhabitat, 6/30 Sustainable Construction: Building Momentum, Brick by Brick Greener Buildings, 6/26 Building Museum Exhibit Celebrates Trend in Green LA Times, 6/19 Developers Learn the Value of GreenSpace Vancouver Sun, 6/16 Sustainable Architecture Can Help Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions (And Save Money) Washington Post, 6/15 Construction Materials - When to Buy New vs. Use Recycled Treehugger, 6/13 Off the grid, on the green Missoulan, 6/9 New IRS Guidance on Tax Breaks for Efficiency in Commercial Buildings GreenBiz, 6/8 The Week in Sustainable Mobility WorldChanging, 6/5 What Would It Take to Be 100% Green? Less Than You Think. WorldChanging, 6/5 Second Homes That Put Ecology First N.Y. Times, 6/5 Designing for Zero Waste & Emissions GreenerBuildings, 5/30 'Green Roofs' Growing More Popular CNN, 5/26 Code Green: Home renovation challenge for energy conservation Treehugger, 5/22 Bright idea lights up the room at U.K. tradeshow Greener Buildings, 5/22 Windy city looks to a green future Treehugger, 5/17 City's green building effort waiting to bloom MSNBC, 5/16 Corporate voice for green buildings gets louder Greener Buildings, 5/12 Ask the Green Architect - Tips for Greening Your Office, Specifying Green Products, More GreenerBuildings, 5/10 UNH Applauded for First Energy-Star Residence Halls in U.S.News Blaze, 5/10 Renovating with Respect Toronto Globe and Mail, 5/8 Sick buildings, renewable energy, cosmic questions and solar backpacks ENN Radio, 5/8 Nation's largest solar home community to be built Sustainable Business, 5/4 Building industry coalesces around environmental techniques Register Guard, 5/2 Green house does away with heating bills MSNBC, 4/28 Green roof unveiled by U.S. architect showcases global trend ENN, 4/28 The green house exhibit Inhabitat, 4/25 Remodeling green goes mainstream The Seattle Times, 4/25 AIA Announces Top 10 Green Projects of 2006 Inhabitat, 4/24 Building green affordable housing in NYC Planetizen, 4/21 Greener Offices in New York Treehugger, 4/19 Top 10 green cities in the US: 2006 The Green Guide, 4/17 New York's test cases for environmentally aware office towers NYTimes, 4/17 Ask the green architect: Help with zero-energy homes, certification for companies... Greener Buildings, 4/14 Homebuyers duped into buying Weyerhauser's "Green" products and homes ENN, 4/14 Why build green? Because it lowers bills and raises resale values MSN, 4/11 Green homes sell better, UK survey shows Greener Buildings, 4/5 Constructing a foundation for net-zero buildings WorldChanging, 4/3 Buildings of the future energy self sufficient, carbon neutral ENS, 3/31 Indian architect builds steel company town as an oasis ENS, 3/31 Eco-friendly homes multiply across U.S. MSNBC, 3/29 LED's brighten future of commercial and residential lighting industries Greener Buildings, 3/29 Homebuilding goes green - new techniques save energy, provide comfort The Daily Times, 3/27 Alternative materials can make home both eco-friendly and cost-effective Chicago Tribune, 3/20 Building a Greener Future: Special Ad Feature Highlights Green Building Advancements and Achievements CSRWire, 3/20 America's top 10 green hospitals Greener Buildings, 3/17 Green building gains ground Press Democrat, 3/14 Prototype condo on the road to 'utopia' Globe and Mail, 3/10 Eco-friendly hospitals Detroit Free Press, 3/9 Toronto to pay developers to build green Greener Buildings, 3/8 New green home building program promotes energy conservation and health LocalBiz, 3/7 How to build a low-PVC reduced plastic, polar bear sensitive house NY Times, 3/7 America's top 10 green hospitals The Green Guide, 3/7 What's beautiful, green, affordable and in skid row? Planetizen, 3/7 Off-grid, hybrid living home almost complete Treehugger, 3/2 Ask the green architect - the skinny on green rooves, fridges, floors Greener Buildings, 3/2 Buildings rise to 'green' challenge MaineToday, 2/28 UN Environment Program launches green building initiative GreenBiz, 2/24