To properly select and specify green building materials, successful architects need authoritative, real-world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to ...

Should a city that's committed to environmentally friendly construction pay $825,000 for a job that was expected to cost $248,000? No, Edina officials decided when they got a bid that high for a new ...

Green building methods and sustainable architecture focus on environmentally responsible and energy-efficient construction practices. They aim to minimize negative environmental impacts not only ...

This large, generously illustrated manual is an excellent primer on owner-designed and site-inspired building. Snell, who wrote the eco-friendly The Good House Book, and Callahan, a more conventional ...

Green buildings are a revolutionary approach to building and design that strive to achieve a balance between human living and the natural environment. Throughout their whole existence, they integrate ...

This community has an opportunity to make historic gains in the field of energy conservation, in practical economics and in good citizenship. It is an opportunity for the city of Rochester, Olmsted ...

Healdsburg is moving closer to adopting a green building ordinance, joining other Sonoma County cities that are embracing environmentally sound construction methods. The City Council tonight will ...

A Bronx Community College program is training today's construction workers on tomorrow's "green" building methods. Project H.I.R.E., or Help in Re-entering Employment, has teamed up with the Center ...

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Black-billed magpies and pine siskins sing on the banks of an acequia — a traditional irrigation ditch — that flows through Valverde Commons, a ...