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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to...
Perkins+Will is the first architecture firm to be named a National Building Museum Honor Award recipient and joins musical artists Harry Connick Jr., Branford Marsalis, Ann Marie Wilkins and Jim...
Launched last June, the Level sustainability standards program of the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association has certified more than 200 products. ...
SustainableMinds offers up this year-in-review take on 2009, "taken from our perusals of some of the quirkier green stories we’ve seen this year." Go ahead: Test your green cred....
The Forest Stewardship Council has awarded chain-of-custody certifications for RedBuilt engineered wood products that are manufactured at the company's plants in Chino, Calif., and Stayton, Ore....
Realizing the "green" in green building requires new approaches to managing design and construction risks. Property owners, developers and investors who address these challenges from the...
Moving farms off land and into skyscrapers is on the verge of becoming reality. The main hurdle isn’t technology; it’s one of engineering and funding. ...
The Greenbuild buzz built up from the kick-off celebration continued through Thursday's sessions, the day satisfied on an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual level: A "health-...
Amidst the drumbeat of news coming from Greenbuild, it's been impossible to ignore the multitude of announcements unleashed by Autodesk -- and our sources tell us there are more on the way. ...
Cement and concrete companies are using a range of strategies to lower the impacts of their industry, which contributes 5 percent or more of CO2 emissions. Using a power plant byproduct, secret...
Architectural firm Perkins+Will has unveiled its Precautionary List, which includes 25 chemicals commonly used in buildings, explains why they are a threat to humans and the environment, and lists...
The release this week of a new contract developed by the American Institute of Architects aims to help bring a collaborative effort to building construction and enable integrated design in...
The headquarters for PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Northern America, REI stores in Texas and Illinois and more than a million square feet of office space in Denver managed by Transwestern have achieved gold...
The U.S. Green Building Council has launched a Pilot Credit Library to enable an array of proposed LEED credits to be tested without a wholesale revision of the rating systems. ...
Alameda County's StopWaste.org program, AECOM Design Sustainability Principal Anthony Bernheim, the David Brower Center and Integrated Design Associates are being honored this week by the U.S....
Wells Fargo & Company is upping the ante on its environmental commitments by targeting a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2018, based on 2008 levels. ...
Reusable and transformable facilities and materials were the top prize-winners in the 2009 Lifecycle Building Challenge awards handed out by the U.S. EPA and its partners; additional awards went...
The Rocky Mountain Institute has created a new tool to help people understand how their buildings use carbon and what they can do to reduce emissions from building projects. ...
The vision behind the new startup is both simple and elegant: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered...
"Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise," a new study from the Sightline Insitute, takes a close look at how stimulus funding and green collar jobs are already benefiting the Pacific...
In the just-published State of Green Business 2010 report, we take an extensive look at the data behind the move toward making mainstream businesses greener.
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In 2010, we're bringing our acclaimed State of Green Business Forum to San Francisco and Chicago, digging in to the research in the annual State of Green Business report to discover recent trends in green business and hear from industry experts about what the future will hold. Read all our coverage of the events here.
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