Green Building

Planned Eco-City in China Stumbles

Dongtan eco-city was to be a community of 50,000 residents living in a utopian, eco-friendly development. But since the mayor of Shanghai, a big supporter, was arrested on fraud charges, the whole project may be dead in the water.

27 December 2008 - 1:00pm

The Christian Science Monitor

Builders Chafe at Green Standards

The State of Connecticut will enact a new green building code in January, and builders are already calling it "awkward" and "unworkable".

16 December 2008 - 5:00am

The New York Times

What Green Architecture Really Means

Architect David Cook looks at the sustainability craze in building and architecture and warns that calling something "green" doesn't necessarily make it so.

8 December 2008 - 6:00am

Flavorwire

Preserving Buildings Helps Preserve the Planet

Communities across the country are grappling with questions about what to do with their older buildings. While we generally think that preserving historic buildings is a way to honor our past, it’s time to understand that it is also a way to protect our future, says Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

1 December 2008 - 5:00am

The Future Homes of Post-Crash America

Just as good economic times pushed housing sizes to mansion-like proportions, the downturn in the economy will force builders and consumers to size down and get energy efficient, according to this commentary from James S. Russell.

16 November 2008 - 5:00am

Bloomberg

Plenty Green But Too Tall?

In what may prove a decisive test to see the political limits of what green building offers developers, a LEED Platinum, 10-story office building is proposed along San Francisco's tightly regulated waterfront - exceeding the height limit by 40 feet.

10 November 2008 - 12:00pm

San Francisco Chronicle

County Enacts Far-Reaching Green Building Reform

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors recently approved a package of green building ordinances that may be the most comprehensive and far reaching green building legislation at the local level in the country.

4 November 2008 - 5:00am

The Planning Report

Leafy Skyscraper Going Up in Singapore

Construction on architects TR Hamzah & Yeang's EDITT Building (Ecological Design in the Tropics) is underway in Singapore

21 October 2008 - 11:00am

World Construction

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A Living Museum in Golden Gate Park

Renzo Piano's new Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco is bursting with green technology and alive with plants.

24 September 2008 - 12:00pm

Bloomberg.com

'I Hate Green Architecture'

Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek's architecture critic, is disdainful of the hype surrounding green architecture, particularly because it so often doesn't address the main problems with land use: proximity to jobs and services, and oversized development.

19 September 2008 - 11:00am

Newsweek

When Housing Market Rebounds, Green Building May Boom

The current downturn in the housing industry may be opening the door for a greener upswing.

9 August 2008 - 7:00am

Fast Company

Broad Green Building Law Passed in San Francisco

San Francisco has passed some of the strictest green building requirements in the nation, for new construction and renovations.

6 August 2008 - 6:00am

The San Francisco Chronicle

SF's New Federal Building is Green and Safe, But Is It Good?

Witold Rybczynski visits Thom Mayne's new Federal Building in downtown San Francisco. He finds a number of energy conservation innovations at play, but concludes that precious little else is playful or human about the architecture.

25 July 2008 - 5:00am

Slate.com

How Much Is Green Worth?

A recent conference in Austin, Texas, of real estate appraisers explored how they should incorporate green-building techniques and features into their assessment of properties.

27 June 2008 - 12:00pm

Austin Business Journal

Is New Building Ever Green?

Chevron is moving its New Orleans offices from downtown to a brand new, "eco-friendly" campus- opening up the discussion of whether new construction is ever greener than staying put.

16 June 2008 - 2:00pm

New Orleans Business News

Tornado Clears Way for LEED Platinum Building

The 5-4-7 Arts Center in Greensburg, Kansas gets a LEED platinum designation- evidence that the town, which was 95% destroyed by a tornado in May, 2006, is making good on its sustainable rebuilding plan.

13 June 2008 - 10:00am

Kiowa County Singnal

Waco Debuts Nation's First 'Green' Chamber Building

The Waco Chamber of Commerce is credited with inspiring a renaissance in downtown, developing their new headquarters on a former parking lot. They hope to receive LEED certification - the first U.S. chamber building to receive this designation.

9 June 2008 - 2:00pm

Waco Tribune-Herald

Barn-Raising For the 21st Century

An old-fashioned community barn-raising in Masonville, Texas could in fact be a glimpse of the future.

7 June 2008 - 11:00am

Fort Collins Now

New State Laws Making It Easier To Build Green

States are helping homeowners who want to have a more eco-friendly lifestyle by overturning homeowner association regulations that ban solar panels and wind turbines.

12 May 2008 - 11:00am

USA Today

Inside the Plans for a Carbon-Neutral City in the Desert

This segment from NPR looks at plans for the carbon-neutral Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.

12 May 2008 - 6:00am

NPR

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